The Government has been accused of fuelling the “two-tier” economic recovery after it emerged more than half of all IDA Ireland site visits this year have been to the greater Dublin area while 10 counties have not been visited at all.

Fianna Fail are on the verge of achieving a remarkable three out of the six seats on offer in the Fermoy electoral area, although it will be a Labour Party man who looks odds on to top the poll when the first count is announced around 6pm.

A TD's son is to be sentenced today for a number of serious motoring offences, arising out of a high-speed chase with gardaí.

A former Fianna Fáil TD has denied any wrongdoing by using prepaid Oireachtas envelopes to send out notices of local party meetings.

The head of an engineering company told a Fianna Fáil TD over the phone that a man on whose behalf he was making representations about a redundancy was “a Sinn Féin f***er, sympathiser and troublesome employee,” a court heard today.

Fianna Fáil TD Seán Fleming is writing to the Mahon tribunal seeking an "urgent correction" to the fifth and final report of the Tribunal published today.

The challenges facing Micheál Martin ahead of his crucial first ard fheis as Fianna Fáil leader multiplied last night after Éamon Ó Cuív sensationally resigned as his deputy.

A Fianna Fáil TD has defended controversial remarks made by the Finance Minister Michael Noonan last week as to why people emigrate.

ELDERLY care in Clare has been compared to a “ticking time bomb”.

PROPOSALS put forward by the Shannon Airport Authority to put the airport on a long-term lease to a private company came under fire yesterday.

FIANNA FÁIL’S decision on its last full day in power to appoint two of its own councillors to state boards was classic “stroke politics” and should never have happened, one of the party’s own TDs has said.

The new Fianna Fáil frontbench

Junior Minister and Meath East Fianna Fáil TD Mary Wallace has announced she will not contest the next General Election.

Fianna Fáil is facing “an absolute hammering” in the forthcoming General Election according to Cork East TD Ned O’Keeffe, as new poll numbers showed a plunge in support.

ONE of the country’s most outspoken politicians believes he will lose his Dáil seat and several of his Fianna Fáil colleagues will also fall victim to a public backlash against the party.

Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny MJ Nolan has announced he's quitting politics.

FIANNA FÁIL deputies have been accused of cowardice after taking shelter in a private parliamentary party meeting rather than speaking in the Dáil to support the controversial cuts to social welfare payments.

TOP-PAID RTÉ staff will not be subject to the €250,000 pay cap for public service and semi-state workers announced in the budget, the Department of Communications confirmed.

A FIANNA FAIL TD has said heroin presents “a very dangerous threat” to Cork after new figures show there have been 60 seizures of the drug up to July this year.

A Fianna Fáil TD is calling on the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to introduce a formal award recognising the contribution of outstanding citizens.

DESPONDENT Fianna Fáil TDs said Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has done nothing to rescue the party’s electoral prospects by keeping the same stale faces in Government.

One of the Taoiseach's constituency colleagues said there has been a lack of leadership in the response to the big freeze.

Cork South West TD Christy O'Sullivan (Fianna Fáil) has been disqualified from driving for one year and fined €300 after he pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

A TEXT message sent to members of a GAA club in Co Cork has sparked a bitter row between two political rivals from the same party.

The Taoiseach has been the maker of his own misfortune after 100 days in office, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly.

The Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche has said there should not be any political implications for a Cork South-West Fianna Fáil TD after he was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving over the bank holiday weekend.

Fianna Fáil is hitting out at Labour proposals to place a bedroom tax on hotels in Dublin.

Dublin South East Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews has today called on the Olympic Council of Ireland to withdraw from the opening ceremony at this year’s Olympic Games in protest at Chinese policies towards Tibet.

REBEL TD Ned O’Keeffe is ready to come in from the cold after turning his back on the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party a mere 11 weeks ago.

THOUSANDS of people turned out to pay their respects to former MEP Gene Fitzgerald at his removal which took place yesterday evening.

SERVING TD and former Fianna Fáil minister Michael Woods will benefit to the tune of €75,000 due to a change in legislation being introduced by party colleague, Tánaiste and Finance Minister Brian Cowen.

THE battle will go down in history as The Battle of the Tearoom, the latest episode in the longstanding and poisonously bitter feud between two prominent Fianna Fáil TDs.

A JUDGE said yesterday he would not jail a former Fianna Fáil TD for tax fraud because he had already suffered humiliation, disgrace and the loss of his political career.

OUTSPOKEN Fianna Fáil backbencher Ned O’Keeffe yesterday once again criticised the Government, blaming it for raising false hopes about the proposed 1,100 Amgen jobs.

IN a landmark prosecution under new ethics legislation, a former Fianna Fáil TD yesterday denied misleading Revenue to obtain a certificate to satisfy the Standards in Public Office Commission that he was tax compliant.

COUNTY councillors in South Tipperary yesterday voted to reject plans for a 3,500-home and technology park development on land partially-owned by the family of former FF TD and minister Noel Davern, outside Clonmel.

A Fianna Fáil TD is threatening to withdraw his support for the Government if services at Roscommon County Hospital are downgraded.

A Fianna Fáil is calling for the Gardaí to be given the power to seize and destroy mini-motorbikes whose owners break the law.

IT may be relaxation time for Fianna Fáil chiefs at Galway Races, this week, but the party’s campaign for the next general election is underway in Kerry.

Some cash-strapped parents are being hit with school book bills that can run to several hundred euros, according to Fianna Fáil’s Charlie O’Connor.

The Planning Tribunal has heard that Fianna Fáil TD Sean Haughey received payments from a property developer totalling £2,300.

The Mahon Tribunal has heard that former Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright failed to declare almost £3,000 in donations from a leading property firm to the party's inquiry into election funds.

MICHAEL Collins would have joined Eamon de Valera in Fianna Fáil had he lived, it was claimed yesterday.

FIANNA FÁIL TDs last night expressed alarm as private polls showed the party facing a major voter backlash at the next election.