A cross-party group of TDs is departing for Washington today to lobby in support of a planned amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Dick O'Driscoll, new MD of Hibernian Insurance called for Irish TDs and Senators to make Ireland a safer place to live, work, and drive in his address to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business.

The organisers of a Gaelic football match between members of the Dáil and the Northern Ireland police today faced calls for it to be scrapped.

THE defence may have crumbled at Lansdowne Road, but one squad took on everything that England, Scotland and Wales could collectively throw at them — and still managed to send them packing.

The controversial Dutch vessel equipped to carry out on board abortions has docked in Dublin's river Liffey.