European banks are to invest €170m in a major plan by Limerick City and County Council to transform the city centre into one of biggest commercial districts outside of Dublin.

The one question on the minds of most people in Leinster House in the last two days has been whether Enda Kenny will walk or be pushed.

The European Investment Bank will open its first office in Dublin later this morning.

An internal report into why Fine Gael lost the election does not name anyone and does not vilify any individual, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

So we have peace in our time, it seems, writes Daniel McConnell.

In the 2011 general election, Fine Gael’s famous ‘five-point plan’ was the bedrock of the campaign that saw the party take power with the Labour Party after 14 years in opposition.

Once a key adviser to the Taoiseach and director of the scandal-hit Rehab Group, Frank Flannery speaks out in a wide-ranging interview with Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

One of the last surviving Irish soldiers granted a pardon after fighting against Nazi Germany has laid a wreath to remember his comrades.

The Government mishandled the issue of special advisers’ pay, Ruairi Quinn has admitted.

At least 13 of the Taoiseach’s staff, including the Government press secretary and his deputy, have been given pay rises amounting to over €31,000.

A breach of the pay cap for two special advisers to President Micheal D Higgins had been approved by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

James Reilly, the health minister, has been accused of hypocrisy after appointing yet another expert on a €164,000-a-year contract to tackle the waiting list and trolley count crisis.

THE coalition parties were accused of looking after their own “party hacks” by appointing supporters to highly paid Government positions.

FINE GAEL has been accused of Fianna Fáil-style political cronyism after details emerged of how Taoiseach Enda Kenny sanctioned a €35,000 pay rise for a key party handler in breach of the Government’s own self-imposed limits on salaries for special advisers.

A SERIES of embarrassing expenditure revelations over the weekend has undermined the credibility of the Government as it prepares to deliver its budget.

ENDA Kenny has defended the appointment of special advisers on six-figure salaries that exceed guidelines set down by his own administration.

The Taoiseach's top two advisors have been awarded salaries of almost €170,000 each, about the same amount of money as that paid to a senior Government Minister.