THE leadership of the country’s largest solely public service union will this morning be grilled by its own members over the backing it has given to the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform.

Reform of Oireachtas expenses, 500 new teaching posts and the scrapping of plans to roll-out third level fees are some of the highlights of the revised Programme for Government revealed today.

Some 12 offshore islands vote today in the local and European elections.

Most of the country’s offshore islands will today vote in the local and European elections.

AT least Brian Cowen has turned on its head the old maxim that all political careers end in failure – his premiership began in failure and unravelled from there.

Burma’s exiled prime minister will today begin a series of meetings in Dublin following the regime’s crackdown on democracy protests in his native country.

The number of Dáil TDs should remain at 166 but changes must be made to several constituencies, a state body said today.

Dáil TDs and outgoing Senators have until today to nominate candidates for the next Seanad.

Campaigners today won a three-year battle to force the Government to officially recognise its annual event commemorating the Famine.

A respected US human rights lawyer who has alleged the Chinese military routinely harvests organs from prisoners is to detail his findings in Dublin today.

THE Government came under further pressure yesterday to check if terrorist suspects are being carried through Shannon Airport onboard US warplanes.

The Government came under further pressure today to check if terrorist suspects are being carried through Shannon Airport onboard US warplanes.

A North Antrim local authority must stop using public funds to finance Protestant marching season bonfires, it was claimed today.

A Sinn Féin Stormont Assembly delegation is today due to visit the Rossport Five on their 66th day in Dublin’s Cloverhill Prison.

Sinn Féin’s cross-border parliamentary representatives met in Dublin today to plot the party’s campaign for the forthcoming General Election.

The families of victims of Northern Ireland’s Troubles need a forum like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.