TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore has denied that Labour “hijacked” the outgoing Irish member of the European Court of Auditors, Eoin O’Shea.

The Irish Government has decided to recognise the Serbian province of Kosovo as an independent state.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has assured the family of murder victim Paul Quinn that the Irish Government does not believe their son was a criminal.

The Irish Government is strongly criticised in an official report on the alleged transportation of terrorist suspects on CIA flights of rendition.

The Irish Government could be facing questions from the European Commission about the financial relationship between Ryanair and the City of Derry Airport.

The SDLP has called on the Irish government to help fund the building of a new police training college in the North.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has criticised the Taoiseach's decision to blame the Provisional IRA for last month's £26.5m (€37.8m) bank heist in Belfast.

A freelance journalist in the North has claimed to have found Irish Government documents at an illegal dump in Co Tyrone.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has accused the Government of failing to show leadership in the peace process.

In the North, a DUP councillor says he's opposing any Dublin nominee on the proposed International Monitoring Commission because the Irish Government cannot be trusted.