There has never been a year in my memory when so many uncharacteristically hostile attitudes

Insurers will not agree to a new scheme to assist those impacted by flooding until the Government gets significant flood defences built.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has warned it is “no longer credible” for republican figures to claim the Provisional IRA does not exist, saying it is “long past time” the paramilitary group ceased to “carry any degree of threat” to communities.