The Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce will meet for the eighth time.

An elderly man with a serious heart condition is currently waiting on a trolley on a busy corridor in University Hospital Galway since Sunday lunchtime.

Primary care centres cannot be upgraded to house improved medical services for 25 years because of botched government contracts, a minister has claimed.

Communications Minister Richard Bruton is to meet with Eir and Imagine to discuss how recent announcements of respective plans to expand their networks will impact on the National Broadband Plan.

Earlier this year New Zealand decided not to allow any new offshore oil exploration.

The Government has affirmed its support for offshore oil and gas exploration.

The main banks have been accused of getting “up to their old tricks” by “manipulating” the system to prevent people accessing a low-interest mortgage scheme.

The Government’s Judicial Appointments Bill is no longer a “dog’s dinner” but rather a plate of “caviar and oysters”, Transport Minister Shane Ross has said.

The Taoiseach has said Independent TDs Michael Lowry and Sean Canney have no written deals with the Government but do have access when needed.

Galway East TD Sean Canney has today resigned as the government’s assistant chief whip, a post which came with a €15,000 salary.

Independent Alliance members expect that TD Sean Canney will leave the political group after a spat over whether he or colleague Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran holds the title of junior minister.

John Halligan said he does not know whether the Independent Alliance will lose Sean Canney.

Sean Canney has “a decision to make” over whether he will stay with the Independent Alliance in Government, said the Taoiseach.

Independent Alliance TD Sean Canney is working to hammer out a separate deal with the Taoiseach to remain in Government as an Independent, it is understood.

A pint and a half of beer “never made anyone drunk” the Dáil heard this evening during a debate on new road traffic laws.

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has won a fight to keep his ministerial post after a power struggle with Independent Alliance colleague Sean Canney over who should be the junior minister.

Kevin 'Boxer' Moran will stay on as Minister of State for the OPW for the lifetime of this government.

They usually do battle across the Dáil chamber but Micheál Martin and Sean Canney will soon become pitchside opponents.

No doubt the Alliance are damaged but the gang of five have shown far more to justify their time in Government, writes Daniel McConnell.

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy became embroiled in “very heated exchanges” with members of the Independent Alliance last week over proposed changes to boundaries of local council constituencies.

“Unfounded” appeals caused delays to the Apple data centre in Athenry, Co Galway, which has thrown the €850m venture into jeopardy, according to Independent Alliance whip Seán Canney.

Junior finance minister Patrick O’Donovan has rejected claims that Fine Gael’s budget plans are too focussed on middle-class voters key to the party’s future election success.

The amphitheatre at Cloughjordan eco-village is just like its ancient predecessors, says Ellie O’Byrne

The new M17 motorway in Galway is due to officially open, ahead of schedule, next month.

Residents in Cork are being warned that consequences will be grave if they choose not to allow the erection of the €140m flood defences planned for the city.

The minister with responsibility for the OPW has been urged to intervene in talks with the contractors of the stalled Bandon Flood Relief Project.

Concerns have been raised that the future of the Bandon flood relief project may be at risk due to an issue over the contract for the works.

The Government is set to pay for victims of the Christmas 2015 floods whose properties remain at risk of being badly damaged again to move homes under a once-off multi-million euro housing relocation scheme.

The Cabinet has signed off on a €2m voluntary relocation scheme for homeowners hit by flooding.

A blistering row among Independent ministers at Cabinet over plans to relocate families living in flood plains has delayed approval of the scheme by several weeks, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The OPW confirms it has finally purchased a building to replace a Garda station once described as “a deathtrap”.

A scheme to relocate flood-hit homeowners may be widened after disagreement at Cabinet over who is eligible to apply for the special fund.

Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Independent ministers have warned that the Fine Gael leadership should not interfere with Government and have called for a seamless transition.

A Luas line linking Northern Ireland with Donegal and Sligo is among the proposals from a group of Government ministers on the future of the railway network.

A ‘Luas’ linking Northern Ireland with Donegal and Sligo; budget airline-style fares on trains, and a special gardaí railway unit are among proposals put forward by ministers.

Any attempts to restore public workers’ pay to pre-recession levels risks dragging the country “back to the bad old days”, a junior minister has warned.

Laws forcing insurance firms to provide cover to flood-hit homes and businesses could be introduced next year.

First-time buyers and young families are to get a grant to renovate vacant properties as part of a scheme to revitalise rural towns and villages.

Fianna Fáil have condemned the Government for failing to deliver on flood relief promises announced in the wake of Storm Desmond.

The Government has launched a ‘Be Winter Ready’ campaign to ensure people are prepared for extreme weather.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe are to be grilled by furious ministers over the Garda deal, which could cause chaos for the budgets of other departments.