The day began with Enda Kenny seeking to deflect the latest bad news for Fine Gael in the opinion polls, which show the party down five points in 10 days.

Almost one-in-three respondents to a new poll say they would not vote for any of the main parties.

Topless Page Three girls are no longer being published in The Irish Sun newspaper.

Niall Horan has flown his best friend out to the US to keep him company.

The family of an Irish teenager charged with threatening to kill the president of Guyana have said they are hopeful the case will be dropped.

X Factor judge Louis Walsh said today he will “never get over” The Sun newspaper’s defamatory story that he sexually assaulted a man as he settled a lawsuit for £400,000.

'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh has settled a €500,000 defamation action against News Group Newspapers in Ireland.

'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh will be back in court today for his defamation case against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers.

SOARING unemployment and population decline have been blamed for a slight drop in newspaper readership over the past year.

THE Irish Examiner has been cleared of a charge of contempt of court following the publication of newspaper reports earlier this week which led to the discharge of a jury in a murder trial.

FERMANAGH’S 22-year wait for a second Allstar award will come to an end this afternoon when the Vodafone football team are chosen by a panel of national media in Dublin.