A Fianna Fáil TD is calling for caps to be introduced on insurance claims.

They met local Oireachtas members outside their base in Mount Dillon yesterday.

Opposition TDs who have raised concerns around vaccinations have defended their actions.

It must take a galling amount of ignorant hatred to find it justifiable to set fire to a hotel earmarked for a group of people who have risked their lives, left behind their worldly possessions and their families to flee violence, war, or persecution, writes Elaine Loughlin.

Direct Provision has been described as "legalised people trafficking" by Fianna Fáil TD Eugene Murphy.

Kittens were heard meowing from inside a charity clothes bin at a shopping centre and yesterday the woman responsible for this said she was absolutely mortified by her own behaviour.

Health Minister Simon Harris has been urged to clarify whether the review of the work of an audiologist at the centre of serious failings in the treatment of children in the West needs to be extended.

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Just five of the 54 TDs opposing unrestricted access to abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy, regardless of future changes, have an alternative to the potential new law if the referendum is passed.

A TD has complained that the “taxpayer was ripped off” after he was forced to pay above the odds for B&B accommodation in Dublin this week.

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has suggested the Eighth Amendment be repealed and replaced in the Constitution with a clause allowing the Oireachtas to regulate abortion.

The Taoiseach is now under mounting pressure to reveal his views on abortion after Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin backed the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment.

As more than 3,300 children woke up in emergency accommodation on Christmas Day, Micheál Martin has dubbed homelessness the social stain of this generation.

Politicians accused of caring more about their Christmas break.

The Air Corps have flown over parts of Donegal to assess what has been described as a "disaster zone."

A number of TD's have been venting their anger at the latest constituency changes.

From providing statues of Holy Mary to sorting sheepdogs, TDs get an incredible range of requests, says Elaine Loughlin.

“Sit down Deputy Doherty, sit down.”

The resettlement of families fleeing war in Syria has stirred up disagreement in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon.

Mental Health Minister Helen McEntee insists the Government is “100% committed” to fully resourcing the sector after concerns were raised over decade-old plans not being implemented.

Donncha O’Brien made an explosive start to his Marshall Clarke Cup quarter-final clash with Denis Wilmot at Derrinasafa, which set him on the way to a comprehensive win.

New junior minister Sean Canney is among a dozen former county and city councillors who will receive golden handshake payments from the local authorities after securing Dáil seats in February.

Fianna Fáil will select its candidate tonight for the forthcoming Roscommon / South Leitrim bye election.

Cork start-up company Tweekaboo is targeting a million users with its mobile app, which allows families to catalogue childhood memories in a private online space, writes Trish Dromey.

A number of successful Cork-based companies are proving that “geography is history,” and that you can run global operations from anywhere in the world.

A shooting enthusiast who lost his firearms licences because of garda concerns for public safety won his licences back yesterday after claiming that he was a calm person with no inclination to be aggressive.

A garda was bitten on the hand in the back of a patrol car by a man who had been arrested in Carrigaline for public order offences.

EUGENE MURPHY and his son Sean from Waterfall in Co Cork have won the 2011 Baileys Cow award.

THE Roscommon Hospital Action Committee, which last August rallied up to 10,000 people to support its cause, has selected its chairperson John McDermott to run in the election.

IN his letter (July 20), Denis Cooper stated that “there are no provisions in the Lisbon Treaty which could conceivably speed the emergence of Ireland or any other EU member state from the recession”.

SO Eugene Murphy (Letters, August 29) did not find my column headlined ‘Taxpayers fleeced and reputations ruined by false child abuse claims’ (August 22) to his taste.

Carbery Rangers (Cork) 0-9 Inniskeen Grattans (Monaghan) 0-12

Dáil Deputies John Ellis and Michael Finneran were chosen tonight as Fianna Fáil candidates to run for seats in the Roscommon South Leitrim constituency in the next election.

Carbery 1-11 Bishopstown 0-7

A STONE monument commemorating the 15 people who lost their lives in the ill-fated Fastnet race of 1979 was unveiled on Cape Clear yesterday.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has rejected an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan after its former leader thanked him for "trying to protect the people against immigrants" after last month's citizenship referendum was passed.