The Taoiseach has taken an HIV test to mark World Aids Day.

There have been 230 “gender recognition certificates” granted to people in less than two years — and now the Government is considering the expansion of the scheme to children.

Two months into his new radio show, and Al Porter is shaking up the airwaves. Esther McCarthy joins him in the studio. 

The Government may take the concerns surrounding the ongoing imprisonment of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa to a European level, in the absence of movement from the Egyptian government.

Fine Gael has been dealt a further blow after high- profile candidates failed to get elected to the Seanad.

LGBT campaigner Fintan Warfield is the first person to be elected to the 25th Seanad.

The electorate should vote ‘yes’ in the same-sex marriage referendum and refrain from giving the Government a “bloody nose” or a protest vote, Sinn Féin have said.

Two Dublin Mayors have confirmed that they will ask the Environment Minister to set a date for a referendum on a directly elected mayor.