A year after being declared bankrupt, Independent TD Mick Wallace is scheduled to walk away from debts of more than €30m, writes Elaine Loughlin.

A year after being declared bankrupt, Independent TD Mick Wallace is scheduled to walk away from debts of more than €30m.

The head of the new Policing Commission has been accused of being part of the problems in the force.

Shakespeare may say that the apparel oft proclaims the man, but plenty of shame has been brought on our parliament and our country by people ‘appropriately’ dressed for the Dáil, writes Clodagh Finn.

Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell has been cleared of allegedly breaching Dáil rules on the use of privilege over comments he made regarding two Sinn Féin TDs.

The High Court has heard that Mick Wallace is trying to save his family home as part of proceedings to have him declared a bankrupt.

Opposition TD Mick Wallace has alleged a former Nama portfolio manager used "insider knowledge" to help a "vulture fund" he held a 30% stake in to buy An Garda Síochána's Dublin headquarters from the State body, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith Political Reporter.

Mick Wallace has admitted his controversial abortion bill is not perfect, but has said it is needed to highlight the plight of women forced to travel abroad for terminations.

The Cabinet is expected to meet again before Thursday to agree a position on a proposed bill from Mick Wallace on abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has said a decision as to whether his bill to liberalise abortion is legal or not should be taken by the courts and not the Attorney General.

AIB has now pocketed €1.19m from the sale of properties formerly owned by Mick Wallace TD’s main building firm around Dublin, documents show.

The High Court has today made a €2m judgement against Independent TD Mick Wallace in respect of an Ulster Bank loan granted in 2009 and assigned to an Irish subsidiary of US investment firm Cerberus.

A judge made a couple of thinly veiled barbs at the governor of Limerick prison over TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly enjoying “afternoon tea” at the jail last month.

The Tánaiste Joan Burton has said the fines issued to Mick Wallace and Clare Daly should have been deducted from their wages.

TD Mick Wallace has said he will attempt to breach security at Shannon Airport again to search US military planes landing there, only an hour after he was granted temporary release from Limerick Prison for failing to pay a fine following his conviction for scaling a perimeter fence at the airport.

Mick Wallace has been released from Limerick Prison.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has been sent to Limerick Prison for the non-payment of a court fine.

The 60-year-old is expected at Limerick Prison this afternoon to begin serving a 30-day jail term in lieu of the fine.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has said that he is prepared to go to jail for non-payment of a fine he received for breaching security at Shannon Airport.

The Taoiseach has made a new appeal to TD Mick Wallace to co-operate with the PAC's investigation into NAMA.

Nama has hit out at Independent TD Mick Wallace over claims he has made about the agency in the Dáil.

Mick Wallace TD accused of defaming the North's First Minister will not be deterred because of the threat of legal action, his lawyer has said.

Sources close to Independent TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have said they expect to be jailed next month over a security breach at Shannon Airport.

The Independent TD Mick Wallace has called for an independent probe into Nama and for the proposed sale of the €8.4bn Project Arrow fund to be suspended.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has today called for the suspension of the sale of €8.4bn worth of loans by Nama.

Independent TD Mick Wallace says he will co-operate with the Gardaí over allegations he made about Nama deals under Dáil privilege yesterday.

The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has said they are very anxious that Mick Wallace speaks to them in person about allegations concerning Nama.

Gardaí are to investigate claims that a Nama official sought and received a €15,000 bribe in a bag from a construction company so it could be allowed leave the agency.

Nama has said that the Garda Commissioner has agreed to investigate new claims about the agency made by Independent TD Mick Wallace.

Allegations that a politician in the North was to benefit from £7m in an offshore account linked to a controversial property deal are “100%” certain, the Dáil has been told today.

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation into allegations of a political pay-off in a massive property deal.

Top politicians, business and legal figures in the North are being summoned before a parliamentary watchdog over an alleged £7m offshore account linked to a massive property deal which was today branded a “dirty scheme”.

The committee is expected to call Independent TD Mick Wallace and NAMA officials to give evidence.

Independent TD Mick Wallace’s allegations in the Dáil last Thursday set a controversy alight which had been burning for months in Belfast.

The Northern Assembly's Finance Committee is to meet amid calls for an inquiry into claims a £7m sum had been set aside for a politician in the North.

Independent TD Mick Wallace has launched a civil action against former minister for justice Alan Shatter for disclosing private information about him on RTÉ’s Prime Time.

A letter from the Garda Ombudsman, quoted in the Dáil by Mick Wallace, stating that gardaí were not co-operating with an investigation into the arrest of TD Clare Daly is almost two years old, it has emerged.

THIS week two members of the Dáil, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, were convicted of entering a restricted area at Shannon Airport.

I admire the courage of Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace in taking a stand against the use of Shannon airport by military aircraft suspected of carrying munitions or playing a part in so-called "renditions".

Garda representatives have reacted strongly to allegations in the Dáil by independent TD Mick Wallace that gardai are not co-operating with a Garda Ombudsman investigation into the leaking of the arrest of independent TD Clare Daly two years ago.

Independent TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly face the prospect of going to jail after saying they will not pay €4,000 in fines imposed on them by a judge.