US Vice President Joe Biden has told acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny that he would have been elected by 80% of the electorate had he run for office in America.

Enda Kenny says he's disappointed that Northern Ireland's new First Minister won't attend any events to mark the centenary of 1916.

As a part-time lecturer in economics I always try to hammer home to students in the first class the hazards of trying to forecast the economic future based on the fact that economics is a social science where outcomes are very heavily determined by human behaviour.

It’s a telling sign of the Government’s difficulty in getting to grips with matters that a minor clerical error has placed the Taoiseach at the centre of renewed controversy just a week from polling day.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has conveyed his sympathy to the parents whose babies died at a maternity unit in the midlands regional hospital in Portlaoise.