Newly appointed Agriculture Minister, Michael Creed, has prioritised better farm incomes.

Gardaí are monitoring “a small number of people” but have stressed the threat level here remains low.

This letter is an urgent appeal from 14 organisations who work with children to call on An Taoiseach to show leadership on the issue of child homelessness.

An ongoing failure by the gardaí to disclose its files on the massacre of 10 workmen in Armagh, despite a pledge by the Taoiseach, borderson disgraceful, Belfast Coroner’s Court has heard.

As an elected representative of the Irish people to the European Parliament I would like to distance myself from the remarks of An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, in relation to how the new government of Greece should progress in its debt negotiations with the EU.

Sinn Féin have announced a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach in the Dáil for next week.

A Government TD has told the Taoiseach and the boss of Irish Water that he will not pay for his house to be metered for a second time "because it makes absolutely no sense".

Sinn Féin has written to the Taoiseach asking for him to recall the Dáíl from its nine-week summer break to discuss the crisis in Gaza.

Nama are taking a court case to try and prove they are not liable to provide Freedom of Information as they are not a public body. Amazingly, this may be the first bit of truth and transparency we have had in Ireland for quite a while.

THIS year marks the 40th anniversary of our membership of the EU. The canvass of Ireland’s experience within the European integration process is a dramatic one, a story of successes and failures and plenty of twists and turns.

We write to highlight the grave matter of how legislation in the Republic may affect the fight for the unborn child in Northern Ireland.

We in FISSTA welcome Ray Ryan’s exclusive report (Irish Examiner, Jun 24) quoting Minister Rabbitte on a recent study that angling tourism is worth €500m and supports more than 10,000 jobs annually in ‘rural and peripheral communities, particularly in the west of Ireland’.

SEVENTY Irish sporting bodies — including the GAA, FAI and IRFU — have come together to demand that the government does not impose any further cuts on the Irish Sports Council.

IS Bertie Ahern among the 125,000 new users to sign up to Facebook since January?

The Government is today expected to consider the long-awaited report into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

More than 10,000 runners today made history in Dublin by completing a 10km fun run under the city.

Fianna Fáil TD Jim Glennon announced today that he will not contest the next General Election.

€50 million was spent on an electronic voting system deemed unsafe by an expert committee; election literature was sent by An Taoiseach in diplomatic bags and polling cards in Offaly arrived with Fianna Fáil election literature stapled to them.

The President of NUI Galway, Dr Iognáid Ó Muircheartaigh, has announced plans to develop a new €16m School of Business on campus at the University.

Survivors of abuse at State and Religious institutions have called for the responsibility for the Child Abuse Commission to be taken away from the Department of Education.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is expected to hold the first of a series of face-to-face meetings with European leaders to discuss last month’s Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) and the failure to agree on the proposed Constitutional Treaty.

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A RURAL region will be shaken, not stirred this weekend as 007 star Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities arrive in Fethard, Co Tipperary, for the VIP wedding of the year tomorrow.

Ireland live television News, a new digital television channel aimed at the global market, was officially launched on 22 February in Dublin with a live broadcast by An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.