TRUANT TDs and senators will be named and shamed when their attendance records are made public for the first time from next month.

IT needs to be made crystal clear to Taoiseach Brian Cowen that it is totally unacceptable to consider the matter of the ‘independent’ TD allowance closed just because Beverley Flynn has agreed not to claim it personally but to allow it be paid to Fianna Fáil.

EVEN though the writing was on the wall since the day workers at the Raheen plant in Limerick started training their Polish successors to run the new €200 million Dell plant in Lodz, yesterday’s announcement that 1,900 jobs, and anything up to another 10,000 downstream jobs are to go, is a huge body blow to our economy and our country’s badly shaken confidence.

OUR selfish little nation was stopped in its greedy tracks last night by the anguished tears of a wronged woman — Beverley Flynn.

THANKS to your exclusive revelations concerning Beverley Flynn’s Dáil allowances, we have learned at long last the true cost of the Government’s dependence on independents.

IF one assumes the average industrial wage to be €35,700, then a family of two children with one parent working outside the home and the other within will pay an extra €360 tax levy per annum.

SO Beverley Flynn will receives a special independent TD’s payment of €41,000 a year tax free until 2012, even though she has rejoined Fianna Fáil.

THE country has gone past breaking point, yet Beverley Flynn sees nothing wrong with being a selfish politician.

Massive expenses bills run up by TDs and Senators could be slashed in the fall-out over controversial independent allowance payments to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn, it emerged today.

THE state body appointed to safeguard the rights of the mentally ill said the Government’s decision to move the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) to Thornton Hall would “promote isolation and exclusion” of patients.

THE legendary Scrap Saturday mocked the Flynnstones — Ireland’s leading stone age political family — but its clear that the Mayo clan is having the last laugh.

BEVERLEY FLYNN has been welcomed back into Fianna Fáil, with her colleagues saying it is her natural home, and how could any of us doubt it?

I WISH to express alarm at RTÉ’s increasing propensity to dumb down real political debate and allow public service broadcasting become an arm of Government.

The Dáil's four Independent deputies were today called on to back a motion of no confidence in Minister for Health Mary Harney.

TELEVISION viewers will learn within weeks if their annual licence is to rise by €7 to €165 to keep pace with inflation.

I AGREE with Harry McGee that Finance Minister Brian Cowen personifies the heart and soul of his party and what it stands for (Irish Examiner, September 29).

Fianna Fáil's general secretary is travelling to Co Mayo today to hold talks with local party members about the possible readmittance of Independent TD Beverley Flynn.

Beverley Flynn has begun settling her legal bill with RTE after a failed libel action against the broadcaster.

I WOULD like to thank the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, for his grubby and incredibly cynical attitude to the electorate who recently reluctantly returned him to power in appointing Ivor Callely, John Ellis and Eoghan Harris to the Seanad.

WHAT’S the difference between a person who fails to pay a fine for not having a TV licence and someone who falls more than €1.5 million short of a legally binding payment to a State-owned corporation?

There is a palpable sense of public outrage over the Beverley Flynn settlement.

BEVERLEY FLYNN has settled her dispute with RTÉ over the costs of her failed libel action for approximately €1.3m, leaving the State-funded broadcaster at a loss of €1.5m out of their total costs of €2.8m.

BEVERLEY FLYNN’S settlement of her debt to RTÉ for less than 50% of the sum owed represents a stunning victory for the Mayo TD but, unfortunately, a €1.5 million bloody nose for licence-payers.

SO RTÉ has come to a settlement with Beverley Flynn.

Independent Mayo TD Beverley Flynn today refused to apologise over a failed multi-million euro libel case against RTÉ.

Fine Gael would struggle to take three of the five Dáil seats in County Mayo if an election were to be held in the morning, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the Western People.

Thousands of people are paying their last respects to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey at Our Lady of Consolation Church in the Donnycarney area of north Dublin today.

Tánaiste Mary Harney today called on former Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn to resign her seat in the wake of the National Irish Bank scandal.

Beverley Flynn is facing further court action, according to reports.

The Fianna Fáil Ard Comhairle is due to meet in Dublin tonight to decide whether to expel Mayo TD Beverley Flynn from the organisation.

Beverly Flynn TD, who failed in a libel action against the RTE broadcasting service, tonight lost the parliamentary whip of the Fianna Fail main Dublin coalition government party.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has announced his intention to propose the removal of the Fianna Fáil whip from Beverley Cooper-Flynn at a meeting of the party’s TDs and Senators next Tuesday.