Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Wednesday. 

Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Monday. 

Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter over the weekend. 

Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Friday, February 12. 

Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Tuesday, February 9.

Here's how #GE16 played out on Twitter on Sunday, February 7. 

It was meant to be just a girls’ day out, so it came as a mighty shock when Laura Jayne Halton was declared the best dressed lady at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS yesterday.

Male celebrities get more Twitter abuse than women, but men are also more likely to hurl abuse, a study shows.

Celebrity promotion of charities is ineffective at raising awareness but can make the stars more popular with the public, a study says.

We already know that body language is important for people, but now it turns out that horses can also pick up on visual clues.

The author of a report two years ago that indicated some families were better off on the dole than working said yesterday that reform of the system was "still completely off the political radar".

The business case for the building of large-scale wind farms and the transmission networks that go with them is under threat from a policy move in Brussels.

Scientists have discovered several small changes we can all make to improve our happiness. Dave Kenny picks the best of them to get us through another January.

It is a common, yet embarrassing, scenario but British scientists have offered an insight into why we forget people’s names only for them to return hours later.

The taste of beer releases a chemical in the brain which makes people want to drink more and take other drugs, research has found.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton said she found it hard to see how the 44% of young parents on the dole were better off than if they were at work.

A supposedly sensational piece of research published by the ESRI has been withdrawn after doubts were raised about the accuracy of its analysis.

AMONG the phrases you really, really do not want to hear from climate scientists are: “that really shocked us,” “we had no idea how bad it was,” and “reality is well ahead of the climate models”.

Horses have an almost human ability to recognise individual herd members from their whinnies, a study has shown.

A KISS is just a kiss — but when it comes to tongues, nothing compares with the effect of chocolate, a study has found.