US president Donald Trump was overheard asking about "the investigations" he wanted Ukraine to pursue that are central to the impeachment inquiry, a senior diplomat has said.

The Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) has defended its decision to retrospectively accredit a laboratory that it did not even know existed was operational for an extended period of time.

The family of a man shot dead in 1976 say they have been failed by the Irish Government and the Gardaí.

The Minister for Justice is seeking the Attorney General's advice on establishing a public inquiry into a hit-and-run, which claimed the life of a Co. Monaghan student.

Two weeks ago, the justice minister ordered what now appears to be a Mickey Mouse probe into a whistleblower’s claims about the prison service, writes Michael Clifford

Grenfell Tower was wrapped in a cladding system that did not comply with building regulations and was incorrectly installed, creating "multiple catastrophic fire-spread routes", a report found.

Latest: The HSE has contacted 181 of the 208 women affected by the cervical smear controversy, it has emerged tonight.

Update 12.15pm: The University of Limerick has confirm that it has invited the Department of Education and Science to undertake an independent review of a number of areas of governance at the university.

The inquiry into the handling of the so-called 'Grace case' is set to cost the State €7.5m.

The family of a young Offaly man who were promised an inquiry into how gardaí investigated his death say they have been left in the dark for the last nine months.

Latest: The Cabinet has agreed to revise the terms of reference for the so-called 'Grace' inquiry.

Whistleblower Maurice McCabe has demanded that Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and other ministers reveal if they were ever briefed on false sex abuse claims peddled against him.

There is growing pressure on the Government to launch an independent inquiry into the exposure of members of the Air Corps to cancer-causing toxins at Casement Aerodrome, writes Joe Leogue.

Sinn Féin have turned down an invite to talk to Arlene Foster about a cash for ash inquiry.

The judge who will lead the inquiry into the current Garda scandal is expected to be named today.

Fine Gael ministers initially resisted committing to the idea of an investigation into Nama’s Project Eagle during this week’s Cabinet meeting, the Irish Examiner has learnt.

Political parties have agreed the need for a statutory inquiry to be set up into Nama and Project Eagle but disagree on whether other deals should be probed.

A paedophile at the Kincora boys' home in the North tried to get a child to have sex with an animal, a witness has told a public inquiry.

Ellie Butler's death should be subject to a public inquiry, according to the murdered child's grandfather.

A former resident from Kincora Boys' Home has described being stripped naked and sexually assaulted on his first day at the Belfast facility.

Allegations that a man in a police uniform sexually abused a boy from Kincora have been heard by a public inquiry.

Security chiefs at MI5 and MI6 have told a public inquiry there is no evidence they knew about or covered up child abuse at the former Kincora Boys' Home.

A Belgian parliamentary commission scrutinising the March suicide bombings in Brussels and the official response is hearing about numerous communications glitches and the intense confusion sparked by unfounded rumours.

NAMA has issued an open letter to a Stormont inquiry into the sale of its property loan book in the North.

Russia’s foreign minister has rejected the conclusion by a British judge that former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by two men acting at the behest of Russia’s spy agency as a “show” lacking substance.

Eugene McErlean is an expert on banking and corporate governance and he wonders why the improvements seen in aircraft safety which have resulted from disasters over the last 50 years seem like a distant aspiration when it comes to banking. 

An inquiry will get underway this morning into a farm accident in which a man was killed and another seriously injured in County Kilkenny.

The TD whose concerns led to the IBRC inquiry has called for emergency legislation to get the inquiry back on track.

Joan Burton says she would support the idea of splitting the inquiry into IBRC, and bringing forward the inquiry into the sale of SiteServ.

The Commission of Inquiry into illegal phone taping at Garda stations is set to be given an extended deadline.

The Department of Finance has defended its decision to claim that important documents given to the IBRC inquiry were confidential.

IBRC's former chairman says he cannot help the stalled inquiry into the bank's affairs without getting access to all the appropriate documents.

Enda Kenny says he does not see any reason why the inquiry into transactions at IBRC should collapse.

The Government is to take no action on the problems with the Commission of Investigation into write-offs at the IBRC until an interim report is provided by the judge.

No decision has been made during a Cabinet meeting to discuss how to salvage the inquiry into IBRC.