Waterford Fianna Fáil TD Mary Butler has said she will be leaving her constituency office at Waterford City’s Waterside, which she rents from the cousin of a convicted paedophile.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are set to add numbers to the Seanad election race from candidates who lost their Dáil seats.

Wexford showed all their class as they eased to a comfortable 14-point victory over a poor London outfit in this Division 4 game at Chadwicks Wexford Park.

"I hope we never have to do it again," said winning manager Tommy Butler.

The Green Party's bright young star, Saoirse McHugh, has revealed some pretty radical ideas as to her ideal vision of how Ireland should be run.

The former Munster forward, now 29, will be the first Irish player to play in the league, if not the country itself, joining a who's who of southern hemisphere stars.

Lorgan Leisure, whose directors are Ciaran and Colum Butler, has been renting the premises since 1999.

Skipper Jarrad Butler has had to deal with contrasting emotions in the Connacht changing room at the Sportsground this week as several members of his squad dealt with mixed news from the Irish camp.

It’s GAA convention season, in case you hadn’t noticed, and whether by accident or design, an important theme has been running through the many end-of-year reports and speeches scripted by under pressure and, in some cases, under-fire county board officers.

Mayo GAA secretary Dermot Butler has thanked International Supporters Foundation chairman and founder Tim O'Leary in his annual report.

Connacht, for a team which has won almost 45% of its matches in the Heineken Champions Cup, still has a lot to learn how to compete in Europe’s premier tournament.

Pool 5 looks bleak for Connacht now.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has expressed shock at being the subject of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission over an alleged incident with an anti-abortion campaigner at a pipe band contest in Dublin last year.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has ruled out free public transport for all to help tackle climate change claiming it would be far too costly.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is to seek a meeting with his British counterpart over the "peculiar" ownership structure of Rosslare Port as soon as new government is formed in Britain.

Hospital overcrowding and the trolley crisis could be solved if the Government spent taxpayers money correctly, Fianna Fáil has claimed.

A nerveless Conor Fitzgerald penalty 13 minutes from time clinched European victory for Connacht as Andy Friend’s side battled bravely to launch their Champions Cup campaign with an impressive Sportsground win.

I worked in sales as a rep for 33 years with Beamish and Crawford in Cork. I fell into hospitality by accident when offered a part-time job as a caddy on the golf course here in Mount Juliet.

Blackrock will play senior hurling for the first time since 1998 after this Premier IHC final replay win.

New figures seen by Fianna Fáil show in the two weeks up to the end of Septmber the number rose from 525 to 686.

Brexit was one of three threats demanding attention in Paschal Donohoe’s Budget 2020 speech. The main threat, climate change, is existential, but apparently not considered urgent. Brexit is a threat that could deliver an economic wallop and then some. And, as this is a political forum, the third threat came from voters demanding an election budget.

Corofin manager Kevin O’Brien is confident former county players Micheál Lundy and Kieran Fitzgerald will be back fit in time for their defence of the Galway SFC in two weeks.

Fr O’Neill’s held off Blarney in today’s tense Cork PIHC semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn.

They were patting down sweat-filled brows around RTÉ’s control bunker yesterday as Montrose battled technical glitches at the start of Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan’s television commentary from Yokohama.

The 26-year-old Waratahs player will provide cover across the second-row and back-row.

The father of an Irish doctor who perished when an Air France transatlantic flight from Brazil crashed has said that the family will appeal a decision by French judges to drop charges against the airline and Airbus.

Four powerful strikers have battled their way through the most demanding of weather conditions to contest this morning’s semi-finals of the AIG Irish Close Championship at Ballybunion.

Runaway leading qualifier Ronan Mullarney from Galway is a stronger favourite than ever to capture the AIG Irish Close Championship at Ballybunion this week having needed only 28 holes to come through yesterday’s opening two match-play rounds.

Former Fastnet lighthouse keeper Gerald Butler is due to represent fellow Irish light keepers at a memorial service for 1979 Fastnet Yacht Race on the Isle of Wight this evening.

Fianna Fáil has blamed a lack of delivery on home help hours for the the 599 people who were discharged from hospital later than needed.

A mere speck compared to the giant Bere Island beside it, and into one of whose fields it would easily fit, Roancarrigmore Island is of such diminutive size that its north/ south axis can be traversed in 30 seconds.

An intellectually disabled man whose legal marriage remains prohibited by court order due to a charity's concerns about his capacity to marry has said he wants to be with his intended bride, the High Court has heard.

Paul Buckley and Michael Bohane will contest next Sunday’s Munster intermediate final at Baile Bhuirne after both had surprisingly comfortable semi-final wins.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here — now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here - now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

Former senior champion Pat Butler rolled back the years at Castletownkenneigh on Monday where he beat Donncha O’Brien with the last shot of a brilliant Munster Junior A championship tie.

Matt Bomer was happy to team up with an Irish director for his tale of friendship in Los Angeles, writes Esther McCarthy.

A traditional rivalry exists between both these counties but it was not on display in what turned out to be a rather tame affair with neither outfit setting the world alight.

Committee chairperson Mary Butler says the findings about women were of most concern.

Wembley no longer holds any mystery for Conor Hourihane. There is no room for romance in this story.

Clare put in a superb performance to beat Tipperary on a 3-12 to 0-6 scoreline in the Munster Minor Football Championship Phase One final at the LIT Gaelic Grounds.