Top government advisers have been warned to dampen down talk of a November general election.

There have been furious scenes in the Dáil amid an ongoing row over a climate bill and the Government's use of so-called 'money messages'.

A round-up of the counts in Munster.

A delighted James Sugrue was one of five leading Irish amateur golfers celebrating call-ups to an extended Great Britain & Ireland squad ahead of the 47th Walker Cup match against the United States at Royal Liverpool this September.

Tramore’s Robin Dawson led from the front again as Ireland remained on track for gold medal glory at halfway in the World Amateur Team Championship at Carton House.

Shane Lowry believes Ireland can contend for Eisenhower Trophy glory providing they see playing at home as a bonus rather than a burden.

Kinsale’s John Murphy will make his senior debut for Ireland in the European Amateur Team Championship in Germany next month.

Business-class flights for the Taoiseach and members of his staff for the annual St Patrick’s Day visit this year cost the taxpayer over €32,000.

What was he thinking?, asks Daniel McConnell.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s much criticised Strategic Communications Unit has advertised for four recruits to be seconded from the civil service.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s much criticised Strategic Communications Unit has advertised for four recruits to be seconded from the civil service.

Leo Varadkar has a lot of help in shaping his image. The tax-funded resources dedicated to ‘spinning’ on his behalf are considerable.

Gary O’Flaherty is hoping to crown a successful individual season by helping Cork Golf Club to an All-Ireland title.

People-smugglers are overloading refugees in inflatable dinghies that are so poorly manufactured they’ve no hope of making their destination.

Participation numbers continue to drop, but the Munster Branch of the GUI celebrated another good year in 2015, with Gary Hurley, John Murphy, and clubs Tramore and Dooks presented with awards during the annual delegates’ meeting at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow, last week.

A Limerick man with a flooring business in Co Tipperary was yesterday before Limerick District Court on charges of robbery and attempted robbery from four service stations in the Limerick area and two burglaries in Adare.

On the way home from Dublin last week, Niall Gilligan stopped off to break the journey in Francis Loughnane’s old pub in Roscrea, which is now run by John Carroll.

Limerick 1-23 Tipperary 2-13: Don Flynn’s Limerick made it through to a first Munster intermediate hurling final since 2011 with a comfortable seven-point victory over Tipperary in yesterday’s semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds.

Two All-Ireland titles and multiple All Star awards have secured Eoin Kelly’s place in Tipperary hurling folklore. Now he is slowly growing accustomed to life as a former inter-county hurler, but the memories of the glory days in blue and gold are as fresh as ever.

The RTÉ drama, Charlie, was entertaining, if more Callan’s Kicks than history. Despite its portrayal of Mr Haughey as venal, shallow and one-dimensional, many of the incidents seem based on truth.

The happiest group of people at last night’s low-key annual delegates meeting of the Munster Branch of the Golfing Union of Ireland in Mallow were the representatives of Ballyneety Golf Club, formerly Limerick County, who were awarded the Munster Branch Club of the Year award for 2014.

Golf membership in Munster continues to decline, according to figures released by provincial officials.

Some goals are bigger than others. Michael Moynihan has a look at nine of the most significant scores in the history of Cork v Tipperary.

Gardaí investigating the gangland murder of crime boss Christopher Zambra have drawn up five theories for the gun attack.

Senior gardaí across Dublin are bracing themselves for retaliation after one of the city’s top criminals was gunned down in broad daylight yesterday.

Dublin teenager John Carroll is used to standing out from the crowd. At 6’8”, he may well be the tallest 18-year-old in the country, not that he spends much time here.

A man punched and stamped on a terminally ill cancer sufferer in a city centre alley way, a court has heard.

The first steps to remove a controversial anomaly in golf’s handicap system were taken at this week’s Golfing Union of Ireland Munster Branch AGM at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow.

Salthill-Knocknacarra remain on course for successive Galway SFC titles for the first time after holding off the challenge of a Caltra side forced to start without Michael Meehan.

Two students have admitted hacking Fine Gael’s website in the weeks leading up to the 2011 general election as a “stunt” to embarrass the party.

Two students have admitted hacking Fine Gael's website – in the weeks leading up to the 2011 general election – as a “stunt” to embarrass the party.

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place”.

Wexford legend Larry O’Gorman almost drove his foot “through the television” after Michael Duignan slated the Slaneysiders on RTÉ’s The Sunday Game.

Christopher Zambra has been found not guilty of murdering John Carroll in Grumpy Jacks pub in 2009.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering a 33-year-old four years ago has been hearing technical evidence about mobile phone data.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial has been shown CCTV footage of a 33-year-old man being shot in a city pub four years ago.

The John Lennon Letters

Between 1991 and 2006 Cork held Tipperary in check in senior hurling, with the Premier County forced to play second fiddle when the two sides met.

A teenager studying at Trinity College Dublin boasted he could electronically track the movements of the head of the Garda cybercrime unit “24/7”.