Video footage has emerged of a young Jewish family suffering a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse in England while on a day out.

The Government have been left scrambling to find a new chairperson for the commission on water charges after its chairman was forced to resign over his views and comments.

A politician who lost his business and came through the “difficult and chaotic” personal insolvency process was celebrating last night after being elected the Lord Mayor of Cork.

There is confusion as to whether US presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Ireland next week.

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.

Crunch talks between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have now begun after the Dáil failed to elect a taoiseach for a second time.

Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy is due back in court today with 15 others accused of falsely imprisoning the Tánaiste and her adviser during a water charge protest.

Opposition politicians have urged the Government to intervene to protect more than 100 families set to lose their homes to an investment vulture fund, after the firm behind the controversial move said it has done nothing wrong and will not back down on the issue.

Reduced from a five-seater to four, Dublin South-Central has lost a population of more than 9,600 from Terenure and close to 3,000 in Kimmage.

On foot of the last Boundary Commission, Cork North Central gained 11 electoral divisions and a population of 17,307 from Cork South Central. It also lost four electoral divisions with a population of 5,048 to Cork North West, and it remains a four-seat constituency.

Pat Carey has been denied his entitlement to due process, writes Michael Clifford

A senior Garda refused to grant an Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor a permit for house-to-house and street collections in Dublin because she believed the money would be used for illegal acts, a court has heard.

Anti-Irish Water campaigners have claimed the utility’s plan to cold call customers over unpaid bills is a “desperate” form of “intimidation” aimed solely at increasing its “embarrassing” payment numbers.

Greece cannot make an upcoming payment to the IMF on June 5 unless foreign lenders disburse more aid, a senior ruling party politician said yesterday, the latest warning from Athens that it is on the verge of default.

Tenants who refuse to pay water charges face having their deposits “robbed” by “boot boy landlords”, opposition parties have warned.

Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has tried to raise his claims of "political policing" in the Dáil.

Households that failed to make last night’s deadline for registering with Irish Water will not face any extra penalties for doing so, but the utility company warned that anyone failing to make long-term payments could be targeted by debt collection agencies.

A TD has defended water charge protesters who targeted the President after footage of Michael D Higgins being verbally abused by demonstrators provoked outrage.

A woman says she has been traumatised by security agents attempting to board up her home while she was inside.

Baying mobs, bomb threats, and allegations of attempts to kidnap the Tánaiste dominated the Dáil.

IT IS hard to imagine a budget in the history of the State that attracted more attention from abroad, or at home for that matter.

Irish media in general, together with the vociferous anti-Semites such as those involved in the so called anti-war movement, ignore the true realities behind the Middle East conflict.

Anti-litter campaigners have warned that the impending abolition of town councils could have a negative impact on the cleanliness of urban areas.

ANTI-UN riots spread to several Haitian cities yesterday as protesters blaming foreign peacekeepers for a deadly outbreak of cholera exchanged gunfire with soldiers.

Voters went to the polls in the Netherlands today appearing to shift more toward the right amid economic troubles and discontent over immigration.

Polling stations have opened in Holland as voters begin to elect a new parliament after a campaign focused on economic and immigration policy.

Belgians may soon be the first Europeans to ban the burka, it has emerged.

ANTI-LISBON group Libertas is hoping to tap into public anger and turn next Friday’s referendum into a vote on Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s performance.

Social workers are interviewing children who live at an evangelist group's headquarters after FBI agents and police raided the compound in a child porn probe.

ANTI-Lisbon trade unionists met in Dublin yesterday to issue a call to private and public sector workers to vote no in the referendum.

GAA Player Welfare Manager Pauric Duffy has called upon players, team managers and county board officials to be vigiliant of the Irish Sports Council's Anti-Doping Code as the All-Ireland senior football championship begins in earnest next weekend, with matches in both Leinster and Ulster.

Two decades after being chosen as People magazine’s sexiest man alive, Mel Gibson today topped a very different kind of list: Film Threat’s annual Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood.

Germany has agreed to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers persecuted during the Holocaust.

A group of people allegedly wronged by the instruments of the State have formed a new group to campaign against corruption.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern blasted as reprehensible a spate of anti-Semitic attacks on a Dublin museum as he met senior members of the Jewish Community today.

ISRAEL, the United States and North Korea are the greatest threats to world peace, according to a poll of EU citizens.

FINGAL County Council will seek a continuing injunction in the High Court today as part of the anti-bin charge campaign row.

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson’s future was on the line today after his humiliating defeat in the euro referendum.

NORWAY is facing a surge in asylum seekers, often because a short stay at a refugee centre in what the UN calls the world’s best place to live beats living back home.

ANTI-NICE Treaty campaigners yesterday accused the Government of emasculating the Referendum Commission to prevent the No side being heard.