Independent TD Catherine Murphy and youth organisation We’re Not Leaving have joined the Right2Water campaign.

So many great quotes this week, but the best was from one of Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s handlers, who, while defending Kenny damned him with faint praise: he said the Taoiseach was busy, because he had a country to “help” run.

A failed Fine Gael election candidate has resigned as a director of Irish Water after criticism over his second job as a paid personal driver for one of the party’s ministers.

Households will have to pay a flat rate fee of up to €400 per year for two years while Irish Water completes the installation of meters in more than one million homes.