Micheál Martin will be sleeping with one eye open as contenders for the party leadership circle having left him take the hit for an unspectacular election showing, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly

Electronic cigarettes would be banned from restaurants, bars, and workplaces and made illegal for under-18s, under proposed laws.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has become embroiled in a Father Ted-style ‘lovely girls’ controversy over the way he was lobbied to make a State appointment.