Tipperary TD Michael Lowry has said he believes recent court rulings in relation to the Moriarty Tribunal will not affect him on polling day.

TD Michael Lowry has decided to appeal a High Court judgement that the Moriarty Tribunal was right to only award him a third of his costs.

An Opposition TD has warned that time is running out to bring any criminal cases as a result of the Moriarty Tribunal.

Another government minister is coming under pressure over a meeting with Michael Lowry.

It would be better if Environment Minister Phil Hogan had not met Michael Lowry in the wake of the Moriarty tribunal, a Cabinet colleague said today.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan met TD Michael Lowry and granted him access to department officials just days after the Moriarty Report was published, the Irish Examiner has reported today.

Disgraced TD Michael Lowry greeted a formal cross-party reprimand from the Dáil with a withering attack on opposition TDs.

A motion to censure calling for the resignation of Michael Lowry been passed without a vote in the Dáil today.

Former Minister Michael Lowry has been officially censured by Dáil Éireann this morning without a vote.

Michael Lowry faces a cross-party Dáil motion formally condemning him today, but the brazen TD has again refused to resign his seat.

A agreed motion of censure in Tipperary TD Michael Lowry has today been announced by the Government Chief Whip for debate in the Dáil tomorrow morning.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said an examination of the Moriarty Tribunal Report by a team of detectives should be finished “sooner rather than later”.

The Dáil does not have the power to force disgraced TD Michael Lowry to resign his seat, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that he will give consideration today to a motion of censure in Independent TD Michael Lowry.

The Dáil debate on the Moriarty Tribunal report continues later today.

Former Minister Michael Lowry has tonight launched a scathing attack on the report of the Moriarty Tribunal today, calling it a "show trial".

A senior Fine Gael Minister said today it is not possible to force Michael Lowry to resign, despite the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal.

It has been confirmed today that €41.96m has already been spent on the Moriarty Tribunal.

The Government has been urged to table a motion formally condemning Independent TD Michael Lowry over the damning Moriarty Tribunal findings.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is now expected to answer questions in the Dáil about the Moriarty Tribunal report today - despite initial indications that he would only make a statement.

A two-day debate on the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal report gets underway in the Dáil later.

Michael Lowry has today demanded more Dáil time to make his case in the debate on the Moriarty Tribunal report.

Gardaí have said they have found no evidence of interference with the telephone system at the Moriarty Tribunal.

A member of the Cabinet has described as "extremely serious" claims that the phone lines of Mr Justice Michael Moriarty at Dublin Castle may have been tapped.

An investigation into fears that the personal phone line of Mr Justice Michael Moriarty at Dublin Castle was interfered with is set to widen in the coming days.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter has hit out at what he has called "intemperate attacks" on the judiciary.

Independent TD Michael Lowry reaffirmed his commitment to his constituents at a public meeting in Thurles in Co Tipperary last night.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed his shamed former Cabinet colleague Michael Lowry would quit politics in “an ideal world”.

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said it is too early to say if a Garda investigation will take place on foot of the Moriarity report published earlier this week.

The State has asked consortiums which lost out to Esat Digifone for the country's second mobile phone licence to speed up their appeals to the Supreme Court.

Fine Gael's deputy leader, Health Minister Dr James Reilly, has today refused to state if the former Minister Michael Lowry should consider his position in the Dáil.

Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore said today that Michael Lowry should resign in the wake of yesterday's final report of the Moriarty Tribunal.

Michael Lowry has given his first interview since the publication of the Moriarty report, saying he has no intention of resigning as a TD.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today asked for public prosecutors to examine the damning findings of the Moriarty Tribunal.

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has said Michael Lowry should face questions in the Dáil on the findings of the Moriarty report.

The Danish telecoms consultant who oversaw the awarding of the licence to Esat Digifone has said there are "mistakes, inaccuracies and mis-understandings" in the Moriarty Report.

Businessman Denis O'Brien has said that Fine Gael asked him to give the party a donation of $50,000.

Telecoms billionaire Denis O'Brien has launched a personal attack against the top judge who found a Government Minister gave him a leg up on to the stage of the global super rich.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today welcomed the publication of the final Moriarty Report.

An inquiry into payments to politicians has branded a rent deal linked to an Independent TD and businessman Ben Dunne as "profoundly corrupt".

Independent TD Michael Lowry has totally rejected the tenor of the Moriarty report released today, saying the report is "factually wrong and deliberately misleading".

The Moriarty Tribunal, which has been examining possible links between businessman Denis O'Brien and former Fine Gael minister Michael Lowry, has published its report.

Businessman Denis O'Brien has commenced a challenge against limitations imposed by the Moriarty tribunal on his legal team's ability to question expert witness Professor Michael Andersen.