Single-use plastics are to be phased out across all government departments and agencies before wider laws are introduced to completely ban throwaway products, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

Women and families affected by the CervicalCheck scandal have said they are heartbroken that that sections of the Scally review had been leaked to the media.

THE appointment of Martin Cullen’s €1,200-a-day PR adviser Monica Leech looks set to be the subject of two separate investigations.

CIÉ has received €2 billion in funding from the taxpayer in the past six years, the Taoiseach said yesterday.