The so-called Planetary Health Diet is significantly healthier than the Business as Usual diet... a win for the planet, says Victoria White.

We’ve grown up with thick skin from years of being subjected to Kerryman jokes and to be honest, no one loves a Kerry dig more than we do.

It happens to the best of us.

The Healy-Raes are defending their high attendance at funerals in Kerry, and also the so-called ‘bereavement packs’ they send to the families of deceased constituents.

“How is the Department of Agriculture managing to keep afloat?” farmers might well ask, with our man Coveney locked into government talks with the likes of the Healy-Rae brothers.

Enda Kenny has ignored a request for a roundtable meeting on forming a minority government and instead issued fresh invitations to talks, insisting a partnership coalition is the only option.

Deeply frustrated Independent TDs will decide this morning whether to vote against Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin’s bids to become taoiseach rather than abstain as previously expected.

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They certainly know how to make an entrance.

It’s the newly-elected TDs’ first day back in the Dáíl today - and they’re all there with freshly ironed shirts, new pens and cheesy grins for the camera.

Not a cow milked in the Kingdom last night by the looks of things.

After topping the poll in the local election, Michael Collins is looking to the Dáil, writes Noel Baker

I’ll tell you who I’d vote for. I’d vote for any candidate who promises to abolish political opinion polls.

POLITICS is rock ’n’ roll for the ugly, and the shucksters, bounders and bumpkins who hang about in Leinster House are a motley crew.

‘Irish Examiner’ reporter Donal Hickey, who has lived most of his life in the countryside, says easy access to transport colours city dwellers’ opinions on relaxing drink-driving laws for those in rural areas

WE’VE all seen the late-night TV ads in which the sultry voice whispers: “Hot girls in your area waiting by the phone now, call: 1590....”

THERE has always been a pathetic air of buffoonery about the Healy-Rae political dynasty. There is also the perception that it represents the very worst in parish pump politics.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has joined the growing chorus of people calling on the Healy-Raes to repay money used on premium rate phone calls.

A FINE GAEL frontbench TD has mounted an angry attack on his Oireachtas colleagues accusing the majority of handing over their council seats to relatives.