Sinn Féin has been against the involvement of civil servants in mediating or attending some of the government formation negotiations.

Earlier this week President Trump had the biggest win of his first year in power.

IT might be as naive as asking why Iceland — population 330,000 — jailed so many bankers and we jailed so few to suggest that the tit-for-tat sense of entitlement so embedded in our society has become a driver of inequality, the rawest, ugliest expression of greed and the greatest impediment to reform. 

AT a moment when the air crackles with indignation over the gender balance of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s first cabinet and his chorus line of junior ministers, it may seem incongruous to speculate about which of two powerful women, each at a career pinnacle, will resign, be ushered gently towards the door, or simply be fired, first. 

It is an indication of how very low expectations around An Garda Síochána have fallen that, when contradictory evidence is offered to the Oireachtas PAC by Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and the force’s HR director, civilian John Barrett, the situation seems almost unremarkable.