‘More mná’ was the slogan printed on Social Democrat councillor Holly Cairn’s badges as she and her campaigners pounded the pavements and by-roads around Cork South West’s extensive sprawl.

Fianna Fáil's high-profile health spokesman Stephen Donnelly is facing a tight battle to hold onto his seat.

The outgoing independent TD from Schull swept through on 11,712 votes, easily exceeding the quota of 11,085.

As her campaign team hit the streets of Ballydehob, West Cork, Holly Cairns could lay reasonable claim to having the country’s youngest canvasser on the job.

General election candidate Peter Casey says he will represent Donegal if elected to the 33rd Dáil.

However, members from across the opposition have lashed out at Ms Murphy who suggested asylum seeker children as young as three years of age need to be "deprogrammed" as they may have been manipulated by ISIS.

A Dublin man has been treated for injuries to his face after he was attacked in a car park.

Former Garda stations have been converted into everything from a tourist centre, an ambulance base, and the offices of the State pathologist.

There has been a great deal of outrage expressed at the treatment of former Garda Majella Moynihan.

A zero-carbon city would produce no more greenhouse gas emissions than it could off-set, for example by planting carbon-absorbing trees. Cities account for about 70% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

Latest: It took two recounts and four days but Holly McKeever Cairns has secured the final seat in Bantry West Cork LEA amid high drama on the 16th floor of Cork County Hall.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney's first flagship PR event on the imminent directly elected mayors vote was dramatically disrupted tonight by left-wing protesters who accused Fine Gael of destroying the country.

Public Accounts Committee members blasted the use of the firm to advise health chiefs about the build and then to later assess problems over escalating costs for the project.

Denis O’Brien can feel the pain of the Isle of Man 19. Both he and the 19 individuals had their privacy breached.

Yesterday’s unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court that members of the Dáil enjoy the protection offered by the shield of Dáil privilege must be welcomed.

Every generation has a tiny coterie of sportsmen or women whose career is a persistent exercise in dominance.

“It is a sad day for rural Ireland,” boomed a defiant Danny Healy Rae.

Health Minister Simon Harris was confronted by heckles and calls for him to resign at a referendum event which had to be cut short after the interruption.

Martin Schulz has quit as chairman of Germany's Social Democrats with immediate effect, saying it is time for a "renewal" of the centre-left party.

Cork County Council wants Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to create a national emergency committee to tackle the housing crisis — one which will act with the same urgency which addressed the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the North in 2001.

The Government will consider fresh proposals to extend unpaid parental leave to 26 weeks, which could help parents juggling care for babies and workplace commitments.

German chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats are starting talks on forming a new government.

Conservative and nationalist parties in Austria have reached a deal on creating a new coalition government that will make 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz the new chancellor and Europe's youngest leader.

There has been a tripling in the last three years in the numbers of claimants who have had penalties imposed on their social welfare payments — and JobPath has been linked to the significant increase.

Health Minister Simon Harris has branded as “brazen, immoral, and unfair” the consultants who treat private patients during their publicly contracted hours.

Despite a worldwide economic crisis, the left showed few gains in the last decade as the centre right reacted quicker to the shift in the electoral base, writes Leonid Bershidsky.

Latest: Angela Merkel has conceded that "of course we would have preferred a better result, that's completely clear".

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged her supporters to keep up the momentum in the final hours before tomorrow's national election, urging a last push to try to sway undecided voters.

Latest: The man shot dead in Ballymun yesterday has been named locally.

Anti-British sentiment should be regarded as “racist” in the same way as anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish rhetoric, a Douglas-based county councillor has said

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s failure to deliver an internal audit report into 1m fake breath tests and fixed-charge notices has been blamed on “considerable difficulties” in gathering facts, several months after the scandal broke.

More than 5,000 people were homeless across the country last month and more than 200 were found sleeping rough in Dublin on one night this month.

If Britain’s Theresa May concedes too much to those right-wing Brexiteers and Euroskeptics, she could make it impossible to reach a final agreement with Europe, writes Robert Harvey

The Netherlands election has energised traditional parties across Europe from left and right, with Dutch voters showing Europe that populism is not always inevitable, suggest Raf Casert and Angela Charlton. 

The Health Minister Simon Harris will visit a number of hospitals this week to check in on the number of patients on trolleys.

Health Minister Simon Harris is to visit a number of hospitals this week to closely monitor the number of people waiting on trolleys.

An emergency EU foreign ministers' meeting called to discuss Donald Trump's shock US election victory has been snubbed by Britain's Boris Johnson.

Minister for Transport Shane Ross has been heavily criticised following the leaking of a confidential report into the country’s rail network.

The new first-time buyers grant has been criticised as a “mansion grant” which will be available to those earning four times the average industrial wage.

The Cabinet will next week agree a freeze on pay rises of up €12,000 for each minister following a backlash over scheduled salary increases.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has denied “directing” Nama to quickly sell-off its Project Eagle loans in a move which allegedly lost the State €220m, despite admitting to seeking and giving “advice” on the highly controversial deal.

Saturday’s inaugural meeting of the Cork north central branch will uphold party’s values of fairness and equality, say joint Social Democrat leaders Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy.

Calls have been made for a public inquiry to examine who facilitated the State’s “sweetheart deal” with Apple.

If you are a foreign investor or a non-resident Irish citizen, buying property here is a no-brainer. This is not news.