Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy is to resign his Cork North-Central seat to allow him take up a new full-time job in Europe.

Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy is set to resign his Cork North-Central seat to allow him take up a new full-time job in Europe, it can be revealed.

Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy will not stand in the next general election.

European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy has slammed UK suggestions that Ireland and Britain could cut a separate post-Brexit deal outside of talks with the EU as "nonsensical".

European Minister Dara Murphy has said Ireland would be the "most economically disadvantaged" country if Britain was to leave the European Union.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has defended Junior Minister Dara Murphy for using a garda car to travel from Cork to Dublin Airport - saying it is "hard to be right" in politics.

Labour ministers have backed their ministerial colleague Dara Murphy but said that his use of a garda car to travel from Cork to Dublin Airport was not an “appropriate use of resources”.

Government ministers have had the right to order gardaí to drive them to work events in “emergencies” since the summer of 2012, meaning other cases similar to the controversy surrounding European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy may have occurred during the Coalition’s lifetime.

Fine Gael officials will decide on whether to run under-pressure European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy in the general election at a grass-roots vote in his constituency tonight.

European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy’s difficulty right now is not that his story keeps changing. It is that another chapter seems to be added every day.

European Minister Dara Murphy is being criticised after he was driven by gardaí from Cork to Dublin Airport.

The disproportionate amount of venture capital funding being attracted by Dublin companies needs to be explained given the the quality of investment opportunities elsewhere in the country.

The network outage that affected thousands of Eircom customers last week has been branded as ‘unacceptable’ by European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy, who suggested such failures could threaten Ireland’s international reputation.

European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy has said he did nothing wrong in appointing a failed party election candidate as his ministerial driver — claiming being an ex-politician should not stop someone from gaining work.

Cork Airport should position itself as a global aircraft leasing hub to take advantage of the multi-billion euro industry, according to European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy.

Data Protection Minister Dara Murphy says network outages such as that which affected up to 1.5 million Three Ireland customers on Monday are “unacceptable” and highlight the need for greater investment in mobile phone network capacity.