Taoiseach Leo Varadkar plans to visit the Dublin communities living in fear after three daytime gangland murders in recent days.

Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has said the latest shooting in Dublin is a matter of "great concern."

Gardaí believe that a man shot dead in north Dublin this afternoon is an Iranian national and suspected hitman for a major organised crime gang.

A man who threatened to put intimate images of his ex-partner up on Facebook if she didn't pay him €5,000 he claimed she owed, has avoided jail.

As a group of Dublin City Councillors, we are acutely aware of how the Eighth Amendment, and Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation, has impacted on the lives of women across our city.

A single tea bag and four biscuits have resulted in people being fined for bin waste contamination, it has been claimed.

People Before Profit claims “conservative forces” have led to the cancellation of a public meeting the party was due to hold last night on the subject of abortion.

Yesterday was the first day of the annual agriculture show in Charleville and day two looks set to be just as good.

Tipperary 0-11 Limerick 3-8: They contested Electric Ireland Munster and All-Ireland minor football finals in 2015 but Tipperary will play no further part in this year’s campaign after being dumped out by Limerick in Thurles last evening.

Cork 1-14 Tipperary 1-11: A sharper Cork side, spearheaded by the impressive Damien Gore and Mark Buckley up front, had a touch too much class for Tipperary in this Munster MFC quarter-final last night in Páirc Uí Rinn.

Labour figures have backed acting minister Brendan Howlin to take over the leadership as recriminations break out over mismanagement of the party’s election campaign.

The family of a fisherman, whose body was found in the River Shannon at Mungret, have said they have many unanswered questions as to how he died, despite a Garda investigation which found no clear evidence of foul play in his death.

Look at the raft of TDs who are known for their liberal views... who got the chop from the electorate, writes Alison O’Connor.

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

Fine Gael candidates ignored a proposed voting pact with Labour in last-minute leaflet drops — only urging votes for Fine Gael.

A leading Labour backbencher has warned Tánaiste Joan Burton the party must not be “stampeded” into a pre-election voting pact with Fine Gael and that grassroots members need to be given their say on the deal.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien’s legal action against the Dáil’s watchdog committee has been widely condemned across the political spectrum.

Thousands of workers could be significantly out of pocket as a result of the proposed minimum wage increases due to an anomaly created by the abolition of the €100 weekly PRSI allowance three years ago.

A local authority has met with a surveillance company run by former soldiers to discuss ways to monitor water charge protesters after council workers were subjected to a spate of “bullying and harassment” attacks.

Government TDs opposed to the sale of Aer Lingus are set to meet unions this week amid growing speculation that the Cabinet is to sign off on the drawn-out €1.3bn deal by the middle of April.

A pilot project aimed at taking young people off the dole under the EU’s Youth Guarantee scheme will have to return money to Europe after failing to make use of all its funding.

Extending civil marriage rights to same sex couples will reduce levels of self-harming among gay youngsters, the Dáil heard. 

Grass-roots members have overwhelmingly rejected plans to sell the State’s “jewel in the crown”, Aer Lingus, unless IAG agrees to an independent valuation of the firm alongside further regional connectivity and jobs guarantees.

Senior Labour figures have ruled out expressing support for €1.36bn offer to buy Aer Lingus until after the general election.

A gay Taoiseach would be no big deal with many in Fine Gael. But a candid leader who tells it like it is might still be beyond their comprehension, writes Michael Clifford

Dr Ciaran Reilly and Padraig Reidy go head to head and argue whether the Irish famine is a suitable subject for comedy.

There is growing discontent within Irish people about the ineffectual political system. 

Six well-known people feature in a new video, explaining what happened when they came out to family and friends.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been compared to arch manipulator Charles Haughey by a Fine Gael TD outraged over "stroke politics" surrounding a Seanad by-election.

Old scores were never fully settled because off the field the players rarely met socially.

A greater diversity of funding sources is required for credit-starved small and medium enterprises, according to a new report.

The new Cabinet meets for the first time this afternoon.

The spotlight is now firmly fixed on Taoiseach Enda Kenny as he finalises the shake-up of his junior government ranks, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly

Tánaiste Joan Burton has moved to allay concern among some Labour TDs that she got a raw deal in the attempted Government relaunch, as Taoiseach Enda Kenny prepared to sack a number of junior ministers.

The Health and Safety Authority is investigating an incident in which a man was hit by a digger at the site of an anti-water charges protest.

The latest anti-water meter campaigners in Cork have defended their right to protest after angry exchanges with some of their neighbours yesterday.

WHEN did Barack Obama cease to be homophobic? Is Enda Kenny redeemed from his homophobia? If some of the hoopla of recent days is to be taken seriously, then anybody who doesn’t favour same sex marriage can be described as homophobic.

The debate about homophobia in Ireland took centre stage in the Dáil with Fine Gael TD Jerry Buttimer describing how he was “beaten, spat at, chased, harassed and mocked because of who I am”.