Independent TD Catherine Connolly has told of her concern at the inaccurate figures being presented as facts at a public meeting in Oughterard on Wednesday night.

A community playground in Rockchapel village, Co Cork, was one of the most recent projects approved for funding from the LEADER rural development scheme.

Britain’s EU divorce is a “window of opportunity” for Galway’s European capital of culture, the arts festival’s development manager Sarah Coop has suggested.

Things have changed, apparently unexpectedly. The resignation of Louth TD Peter Fitzpatrick from Fine Gael on Monday does not automatically change events, but it may do so dramatically. 

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An investigation is underway after a woman was found dead in a disabled toilet at Galway University Hospital.

The key role of Minister Heather Humphreys in the Government plan to drive investment and regenerate rural Ireland took shape this week, with the transfer of all rural affairs functions from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to her Department of Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht.

New junior minister Sean Canney is among a dozen former county and city councillors who will receive golden handshake payments from the local authorities after securing Dáil seats in February.

Enda Kenny is close to securing the support of up to 10 Independent TDs after rural deputies held a vote on whether they would back him for taoiseach.

A record number of women will form part of the new Dáil as gender quotas put more females on the ballot papers.

Fianna Fáil should consider supporting Fine Gael’s bid to re-elect Enda Kenny as Taoiseach when the Dáil resumes, because the move would create a lame duck leader.

Senior Fianna Fáil members have rejected a suggestion by Simon Coveney, the agriculture minister, that they could go into coalition with Fine Gael after the next general election.

Six coroners working on a part-time basis each earned more than €100,000 in State retainers and fees last year, new figures show.

Over €70m owed to public hospitals is being held up by consultant doctors who have failed to sign off on private health insurance claim forms.

The battle for the job of pulling the Labour Party back from the brink will begin today when nominations open for a leader to replace Eamon Gilmore who conceded his party needs "a new voice".

Final preparations are under way to confer the Freedom of Cork on President Michael D Higgins this week.

President Michael D Higgins is set to be made a Freeman of Cork.

Up to 70% of Galway students have been, or know someone who has been, bullied online.

The public was “played for every vote that could be got” by the Labour Party in the run-up to the election, the Dáil heard last night.

A loosening of the party whip system and allowing individual TDs to vote with their conscience on laws would be bad for stability and therefore bad for investment, the Taoiseach told the Dáil.

A loosening of the party whip system and allowing individual TDs to vote with their conscience on laws would be bad for stability and therefore bad for investment, the Taoiseach told the Dáil.

Fine Gael rebel Lucinda Creighton has said her new grouping, Reform Alliance, which is holding a think-in in Dublin today will “speak its own mind in the Dáil” and “vote in the best interests of the country”.

Rebel TDs kicked out of Fine Gael for opposing the abortion legislation could be let back into the parliamentary party after a period of time, according to a junior minister.

The final Dáil vote saw 31 TDs oppose the X case legislation as numbers were swelled by left-wing deputies protesting that the new law was not liberal enough.

Four Fine Gael TDs who voted against legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances were last night expelled from the parliamentary party and told they would be stripped of their membership on Oireachtas committees.

Forest owners are being urged to attend a series of public information meetings on the ash disease over the next 10 days.

The risk of a Fine Gael backbench revolt receded after plans to legislate for abortion in limited circumstances — 21 years after the X case ruling on the issue — were unveiled by the Government.

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has said he will not depart from any of the recommendations made by the Constituency Commission, including those on new constituency names.

A coroner has warned hospital consultants to accept responsibility for educating foreign medical staff on the correct procedures for reporting deaths to his office.

Galway West TD EamonÓ Cuív has been re-instated to the Fianna Fáil frontbench following his resignation last March over his stance on the fiscal compact referendum.

Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael took four seats in Mayo in the last election.

Éamon Ó Cuív’s decision to stay in Fianna Fáil “for all its faults” was hardly surprising given his family lineage and lifelong involvement with the party founded by his grandfather.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin faces a battle to push through reforms of the party structure at this weekend’s ard fheis with one of his frontbenchers among those opposing his plans.

A campaign driven by the media is forcing the tax man into looking into payments made to hurling and football managers, according to a member of the last government.

SO Ireland has a new head of state.

BUSINESS leaders in the west are to step up their efforts to keep two regional airports open following the Government’s decision to terminate funding from the end of this year.

A FIRM owned by re-elected Galway West independent TD Noel Grealish recorded losses of over €150,000 last year and has entered agreements with the Revenue over tax debts.

THE 166th and last candidate to be elected to the new Dáil finally secured his seat after 67 hours of counting yesterday morning — and said he couldn’t wait to get into Leinster House.

TOP-LEVEL negotiations between the probable government partners are to focus on the main policy differences exposed during the campaign.