Joan Burton, the social protection minister, has raised questions about Government members interacting with individuals criticised by tribunals following the appearance of Enda Kenny at a public event with businessman Denis O’Brien.

The Mahon Report fallout claimed its first Fine Gael casualty after a party councillor resigned last night.

Former EU Commissioner Padraig Flynn has today resigned from Fianna Fáil, following the findings of the Mahon Tribunal.

Fianna Fáil have confirmed Bertie Ahern has resigned from the party in a letter received this morning.

INNOVATIVE cheeses, ingredients and flavourings are being developed to capitalise on the 2015 post-quota era, said experts at yesterday’s global Cheese Symposium in Cork.

BREAK out the sun cream. It’s going to be another scorcher today with temperatures likely to be the best in Munster, Leinster and the Midlands, where they will reach highs of 22C.

IF a cardiologist had hooked a Munster supporter up to a heart monitor last Saturday evening, he’d have been able to tell what was happening in the Millennium Stadium without switching on the television.

A 60-COW dairy herd from Co Clare is the 2006 champion herd in the Limerick and Clare Friesian breeders’ club awards.

IRELAND’S brave missionaries were remembered yesterday at the start of a series of commemorative services for 14 priests, brothers and nuns who died violently abroad in recent times.

An Irish priest was murdered in Kenya last night after a gang of ten armed men invaded his home in a Nairobi suburb.

WE are writing to express our support for the campaign for a thorough review of the Garda investigation into the death of Kevin Reilly, a 16-year-old teenager fatally stabbed in Tallaght on February 15, 1992.