"We want to see as many of them as possible." This was the one-line response from Enda Kenny when he was asked — at the launch of his party’s election campaign in 2011 — if female representation would increase under a Fine Gael government.

AFTER 10 years of unprecedented prosperity, it is difficult to believe the scale of the problems of child poverty and homelessness which continue to exist unchallenged in our society.

FINE Gael's Simon Coveney will announce today whether he will run for the Dáil at the next general election or remain in the European Parliament.

The Taoiseach should intervene immediately in the case of a black man on death row for 28 years in the US, it was claimed today.

Many of the estimated 900 Irish prisoners in UK jails suffer discrimination and endure lives of quiet desperation, it was claimed today.