A councillor has called on Cork City Council to adopt a more “hardline approach” towards the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre.

Protesters who occupied part of Cork City Hall yesterday in solidarity with the Apollo House activists in Dublin have vowed to continue their campaign to help the homeless.

The deeply divisive JobBridge internship programme will close to new participants on Friday, with a new system guaranteeing a series of reforms set to be implemented from next summer.

Members of the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit (AAA-PBP) are at odds on increasing Ireland’s corporation tax.

Members of the Anti-Austerity Alliance - People Before Profit (AAA-PBP) are at odds on increasing Ireland's corporation tax, writes Elaine Loughlin, Political Reporter.

The Anti Austerity Alliance, People Before Profit have published what they say is a radical alternative budget.

The sudden departure of Joe O’Toole as chairman of the water charges commission will make even more difficult the task of Housing Minister Simon Coveney as he travels to Brussels to explain the Government’s decision to suspend water charges.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance have called on the newly appointed head of the expert commission on water charges to resign, complaining that he is a supporter of the levy.

The chairman of the new water charges expert commission has slammed left- wing politicians’ views and also said Revenue could examine taking over collection of the levy.

Fianna Fáil has staunchly defended its deal with Fine Gael to suspend instead of abolish water charges, claiming an opposition motion to scrap the fees immediately is little more than “political point scoring”.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has been re-elected as Taoiseach by the most slender of margins, gaining just one vote more than the minimum needed to regain power. Mr Kenny won the fourth and final nomination vote by 59 votes to 49 after 11th-hour talks with Independents.

Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy, who is paid a salary of €87,258, has been criticised for seeking legal aid in his pending trial for the false imprisonment of Tánaiste Joan Burton.

If you were to believe the body politic, Irish Water is the most evil thing since Hitler and the SS. All the parties, especially Fianna Fáil, which introduced water charges in 2010, have sold out their principles for populism, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

A former councillor who was elected to the Dáil plans to use his €29,000 local authority gratuity payment to establish a solidarity fund for community causes.

Cork City Council finally voted last night to fill a vacant council seat after new legal advice said it was the “option of least risk”.

A political party says it has gathered hundreds of signatures backing its “moral claim” to the Cork City Council seat left vacant in the wake of the general election.

The filling of a vacant seat on Cork City Council has been deferred again after councillors got legal advice which said they had no legal entitlement to proceed with the move.

Cork City Council is expected to discuss legal advice tonight after a challenge to the filling of a vacant seat.

A trial date has yet to be set for Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy on charges of falsely imprisoning acting Tánaiste Joan Burton during a water charges protest in Jobstown almost 18 months ago.

Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has said ongoing Luas strike action is a “good thing”.

The Labour Party has confirmed that it is the ‘interested party’ which has challenged the co-option process to fill a vacant seat on Cork City Council.

The co-option of an Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) member onto Cork City Council was dramatically deferred last night after a challenge emerged.

A number of senior Fianna Fáil TDs believe real talks on forming a government will only begin after Thursday, when the first attempt to elect a taoiseach is made.

With such a large number of sitting TDs now ousted from Leinster House, the 32nd Dáil will be spattered with unfamiliar and fresh faces.

An Anti-Austerity Alliance/People Before Profit candidate who seems set for the Dáil has dismissed Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil's concerns about forming a coalition.

An anti-water charges protestor was convicted this evening of assaulting a Detective Garda, while he was on duty, providing protection for the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers, at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.

The Limerick City four-seat constituency bristles with big name candidates.

There will be no increase in commercial rates or parking charges in Cork City next year despite fears of a €1m reduction in the city’s income.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan will outline plans in next week’s budget to address the housing crisis with Nama supplying up to 80 houses a week by the end of the year.

If there is to be greater equality, the price will have to be paid by ’middle income’ earners, writes Michael Clifford.

Who is Left, let alone ‘hard-Left’? Labour claims to be Left, while decrying the hard-Left, writes Gerard Howlin