A report from the expert group set up to advise the Government on abortion law will be published following today's cabinet meeting.

The split in the Socialist Party grew more bitter as leader Joe Higgins indicated members might find it difficult to share common platforms with Clare Daly after she quit the organisation.

The conduct of tax-evading TD Mick Wallace is to be probed by a Dáil committee with powers to refer the matter to the DPP.

Fittingly, the lacklustre referendum campaign finally died of embarrassment in the very place it had been trapped in all along — a dead end.

Hundreds of grass-roots Labour members are set to gather in Galway today for the party’s 66th annual conference, its first major gathering since entering the coalition with Fine Gael 13 months ago.