France is readying itself for reduced train services as rail workers prepared to begin striking late yesterday even as a separate protest movement by refinery operators shows signs of easing.

Fianna Fáil TD Éamon Ó Cuív said today that his party made a promise not to go into government with Fine Gael and they should stick to it.

LatestA total of 148 TDs have been returned to the 32nd Dáil, 158 seats are available; Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett (FG) is automatically returned.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has lashed out at colleagues “sniping from the bushes”, a reference to claims from Eamon Ó Cuív about the party facing demise.

Fianna Fáil has said that Eamon Ó Cuív’s assertion that the party could be facing demise will be dealt with internally.

Both Labour (Joan Burton) and Fianna Fáil (Éamon Ó Cuiv) recently made their views known about a possible coalition with Sinn Féin.

Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny John McGuinness has thrown his hat into the ring to become the party's deputy leader.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has insisted that there is no fault line in the party's ranks.

Micheál Martin met with the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party last night after the departure of Eamon Ó Cuív as his deputy leader.

A Government minister today insisted he was right to restrain a protesting student after a noisy demonstration over education cutbacks turned nasty.

The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs was involved in a scuffle with student protestors at NUI Galway last night.