Éamon Ó Cuív has resigned as the Fianna Fáil deputy leader and spokesperson on communications after differences with party leader Michael Martin over the EU fiscal treaty.

WHAT is it about Fine Gael and party occasions? First, there was the ard fheis disaster in 1991 when a comic sketch involving Twink famously bombed.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due to deliver his keynote speech to Fianna Fail's Ard Fheis.