Treacy shared numerous snaps of their holiday adventures on the picture-sharing app but said it was "so great to be home and celebrate with friends and family".

Fiachra Ó Cionnaith breaks down the potential list of candidates for the Presidential race.

Two members of the Irish Examiner political staff have secured a top journalism award for their analysis of the treatment of a young woman who suffered a litany of abuse in a foster home.

A year after the ‘worst election we’ve ever had’, Labour leader Brendan Howlin insists that his party can return to power, writes Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Members of the public have donated more than €70,000 in a bid to save the family home of a widowed father of five from repossession.

Martin McGuinness had a commanding role in IRA violence but his contribution to peace will be long remembered, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and the leader of the party in the North, Michelle O'Neill, have helped to carry the coffin of Northern Ireland former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness to his home in Derry.

Enda Kenny’s critics have claimed in recent days that his conciliatory approach means the Irish wolfhound risks becoming Trump’s EU lapdog, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s controversial St Patrick’s Day meeting with US president Donald Trump will take place during an expanded trade mission, writes political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

As ever in politics, it’s not just the message you give, but how you give it, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

The first time Garda whistle-blower Sergeant Maurice McCabe’s concerns of serious malpractice and alleged cover-ups in the force gained public attention, former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan retired after a late-night knock on the door, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

These devout Cistercian nuns usually don’t covet the limelight but needs must, says Donal O’Keeffe

Love bombing, is a concept that parents connect with their children by finding time to do what the child wants to do, reports Gwen Loughman

It’s either someone finally talking some long-overdue sense, or the most cynical moving of the political goalposts in a generation, writes Fiachra Ó’Cionnaith

Leaders’ tactics are throwback to those of Dev and Michael Collins, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Twelve months on from an angry Dáil confrontation over his younger brother’s heroin addiction and homelessness, Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’ Brien tells Political Reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith how addicts around the country — and their families — need ongoing support to cope with their illness

The mysterious leaking of Labour's controversial draft election poster depicting a Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin coalition as a just-married gay couple shows the fine line between landing a sneaky pre-vote punch and having it hit the thrower square in the face, writes political reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Despite Government claims that the health service can cope, the lack of money available to it next year threatens to damage the Coalition bid to emphasise the recovery, says Political Reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Allow me a short comment on the article by Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, ‘Renua vows law reform to jail ‘reckless’ bankers’ (Irish Examiner, July 25).

According to Fiachra O Cionnaith’s report (Irish Examiner, April 14), former president Mary McAleese insists we must support the ‘Yes’ side in the May 22 referendum, if we want to finally live up to the ‘constitutional promise to cherish all children equally.’

The Irish Examiner’s political correspondents, Juno McEnroe and Fiachra O’Cionnaith, will be live tweeting from today’s Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Derry.

The death of a toddler at a Montessori school in Wexford is being treated as a tragic accident.

A Priory Hall resident who took his own life was "intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine", an inquest heard.

Aras Attracta is home to nearly a hundred people. It’s in Swinford in County Mayo. It has a website, part of the much larger HSE website.

Stephanie Meehan is moving into a new home following the Priory Hall debacle, but not all former residents have made a fresh start, Caroline O’Doherty reports

Disgraced developer Tom McFeely has refused to apologise to Stephanie Meehan, whose partner Fiachra took his life over the Priory Hall scandal.

I am appalled at the treatment of mother-of-two Stephanie Meehan, partner of Fiachra Daly, the Priory Hall resident who tragically took his own life.

Residents of the notorious Priory Hall ghost estate have urged Taoiseach Enda Kenny to resolve the long-running scandal after the tragic suicide of a man caught up in the crisis.

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THE Round Robin season is upon us.

The first anniversary of the evacuation of the Priory Hall apartment complex falls tomorrow. Those forced from their homes are trapped by the past as they look to the future, reports Noel Baker

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New bus charges are preventing pupils from attending the schools of their choice, while some routes may be stopped, says Áilín Quinlan

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Stephanie Meehan began 2011 living in Priory Hall and ended it not knowing what the future holds for her and her family

IRISH EXAMINER journalist Fiachra O Cionnaith was awarded top honours at the 2010 GlaxoSmithKline Medical Media Awards in Dublin last night.

CORK football boss Conor Counihan believes that supporters in the county are starting to get behind his team in light of their recent exploits.

RELIGIOUS orders have seen vocations heading in one direction over the past couple of decades — and, unfortunately, it hasn’t been up.