The head of the Policing Authority has said a new Garda commissioner could be an “outsider” but that the package for the role needs to be improved.

The essential work of the print media is no less important than decades ago. But for that work to continue, newspapers must be given a chance to survive, writes TP O’Mahony.

Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes has said politicians risk a “serious dereliction” of duty in failing to prepare for the UK’s potential EU exit.

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald has defended her party president's joke about holding the editor of the Sunday Independent at gunpoint.

Nama will roll out €2bn to develop top-end office accommodation mainly around Dublin’s docklands in an effort to attract foreign direct investment.

Ireland's outgoing EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has suggested it was "a good thing that Ireland rejected Lisbon Treaty on the first occasion".

Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh has questioned the right of women to be ordained - challenging the papal ban.

The Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, John O'Donoghue, has launched an unexpected attack on the Irish media during a speech at a function in Dublin today.

A new report shows that jail, death threats and even murder are being used across Europe to suppress media freedom.

A GREEN Party minister yesterday indicated he would become his party’s first senior representative to publicly back a yes vote in a referendum on Europe.

THE economy is overheating and the Government is oblivious to the danger, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte has warned.

IT CAME as no great surprise that Charlie McCreevy praised Margaret Thatcher in a speech to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, tonight sharply rebuked a Government backbencher’s calls to end the special relationship between the state and the Catholic Church in the wake of the damning Ferns Report.

Dublin: Farming can continue as a commercial activity, the general secretary of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA), Michael Berkery, told the Association of European Journalists (Irish section) in Dublin yesterday.