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Joan Burton will not be contemplating her position as leader of the Labour party until after a new government has been formed.

To borrow a turn of phrase from Enda Kenny on an  RTE’s Six One news bulletin recently: ’we will not tolerate law abiding citizens being prevented from going about their lives’ because of the extortion of money from people already impovershed  by taxes that are  wasted in an unfathomable bureaucracy. 

Respected television news anchor Bryan Dobson has been appointed as an honourary lecturer at the University of Limerick.

IT is almost one year on since the Taoiseach gave his humble and heartfelt apology to the thousands of women who were incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Brian Dobson’s interview with Bill Clinton last week, on the Six One news, was awe-inspiring.

MICHEÁL MARTIN is forging a new way forward for his party, but embers of old still burn from a few short years ago when he and others rushed forward to attack the Mahon Tribunal for its enquiries into Bertie Ahern’s mysterious £215,000.

MY name is Joanne O’Riordan from Millstreet in Co Cork. I was born with a disability known as “total amelia”.

RESIGNATIONS in RTÉ are not being ruled out after the Government announced an investigation into the defamation of Fr Kevin Reynolds by the national broadcaster.

RTÉ’s coverage of the Lisbon treaty was heavily biased in favour of the yes side, a report carried out by an anti-Lisbon group has claimed.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is to make a statement on RTÉ's Six One this evening about the money he received from a wealthy businessmen 13 years ago.