Your lunchtime bulletin...

“Hey Ceann Comhairle, don't’ you get me wrong. I’ve got Shane Ross in the corner and he’s coming on strong”

Potential presidential election candidate Gerard Craughwell has risked undermining his campaign by claiming the highest office in the country is a “meet and greet job” that has no impact on the general public.

The homeless man who died within view of Leinster House spoke to a radio interviewer in the weeks before his death.

It was love at first fare.