I read the letter of Jerry Buttimer TD (June 14) with amusement and interest.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance launched a broadside at Sinn Féin last night for supporting Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the election of Cork’s lord mayor.

A last-minute power-sharing deal secured the election of Fianna Fáil Cllr Mary Shields as the new Lord Mayor of Cork last night.

Talks on the election of a new lord mayor of Cork and on city council voting arrangements look set to go down to the wire.

HOW will the brave new world look? If the opinion polls are correct, the Seanad will be voted out of existence on Friday.

Government plans to overhaul how Irish politics works were yesterday criticised as “minor change” dressed up as “major reform.”

Deputy Joanna Tuffy bemoans a lack of in-depth analysis in the arguments to retain or abolish the Seanad (Irish Examiner, 24 June).

LOCAL government must be overhauled because it is not fit for purpose in its current state.

Northern Ireland can witness an economic revolution if the Stormont administration is restructured to prioritise growth, the Alliance Party pledged today.

The North’s political leaders will today face the first challenge in implementing the landmark agreement to save the region’s power-sharing government.

The deal to save the North’s power-sharing government faced its first significant challenge today when the politician tipped to be the new justice minister cast doubt on whether he would accept the post.

YESTERDAY was a good day for this island; it was an especially good day for Northern Ireland.

First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness have been called before a Stormont committee to explain their plans for a new justice ministry.

DUP leader Peter Robinson and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams were both in Co Fermanagh today rallying supporters for an election that sees voters go to the polls next week.

Sinn Féin would favour two ministers of equal standing taking charge of any future Department of Justice at Stormont, a senior figure in its Assembly team revealed today.

FIANNA FÁIL last night agreed a deal with Fine Gael on the awarding of Oireachtas committee chairmanships, thereby avoiding a confrontation in the Dáil.

FINE GAEL will this week escalate its campaign of disruptive action in the Dáil over government plans to increase the number of Oireachtas committees from 18 to 21.

The British government was tonight warned any attempt to ease pressure on Sinn Féin over the transfer of policing and justice powers will end in failure.

IT is interesting to listen to the messages coming from the strongest unionist party, the DUP.

The Ulster Unionists will boycott Northern Ireland’s Policing Board if the Government refuses to reallocate to other parties any seats Sinn Féin may refuse, their leader warned today.

REPUBLICANS have failed to endorse policing because it would end their moneymaking schemes and their grip over neighbourhoods, SDLP election candidate in North Belfast, Alban Magennis, said yesterday.