A Co Mayo teacher, who broke the world record for the longest barefoot walk, has set his sights on an even more gruelling challenge — walking across the US shoeless.

Prisoner officers have called for better protective equipment like batons and pepper spray after a violent assault in Midlands prison.

The Red Flag consulting firm being sued by businessman Denis O’Brien has confirmed it had a client for a dossier of material relating to the businessman which he alleges is part of a conspiracy to damage him, the High Court has heard.

Dublin great Jimmy Keaveney has tipped the present team to double the All-Ireland tally of the great 1970s side he played in.

It’s the thought occupying most Dublin fans’ minds right now, though county great Jimmy Keaveney believes too much is being made of how the Dubs’ will cope with Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea.

A worldwide intellectual property watchdog has ruled that an Irishman cannot keep the Linkedin.ie domain name after the employment network LinkedIn.com made a complaint.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association has described as “unique” the action of nurses who voted against transferring to a new €15m acute psychiatric unit despite three in five being offered an incentive to do so.

Dublin legend Jimmy Keaveney says Paul Galvin can join him in the elite group of players to have won All-Ireland titles after emerging from retirement.

HSE report points to 13 fatalities

Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan’s claim that the Government is giving "active consideration" to addressing the growing scandal of the mass child grave discovered at a mother and baby home in Galway has been deemed wholly inadequate by opposition parties.

The Government has defended the standard of care in Galway’s main psychiatric unit after the country’s work safety watchdog was called in over complaints about staffing levels.

Following the recent unrest in Labour due to MEP Phil Prendergast’s criticism of Eamon Gilmore’s leadership, it has highlighted a common thread that explains the rise of independents.

More than 15,000 children with serious speech and language difficulties must wait up to two years to access basic initial assessments, while cutbacks mean hundreds more are not even making it onto the lists.

Opposition party TDs have asked is Justice Minister Alan Shatter thinks that “people are stupid” and said he is no longer “fit for office” after a series of excuses over the whistleblower affair.

Eamon Gilmore says the country has been “to hell and back” — but unfortunately for him and his Government, many people have yet to make the return journey and still feel trapped in Satan’s departure lounge.

Large sections of the country have no early intervention teams to help children with serious disabilities — risking potential havoc for their development.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged that the Child and Family Agency would not be just be “going through the motions” but would transform the way Ireland treats vulnerable youngsters.

WHAT on earth is a decent hard-working witch to do? There I was, ready, as always at this time of the year, to predict the future for all of you, and to ensure that you’d have no surprises throughout 2014.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has accused ex-party chairman Colm Keaveney of political opportunism and said he would join terrorist group Hezbollah if it helped his career.

SAY what you like about Colm Keaveney, he has put an end to the Civil War. Ah, not that Civil War, silly. The real Civil War. The war between Charlie Haughey and Garret FitzGerald.

Behold the birth of Ireland’s new future force, the PDs — the Politically Desperate.

Veteran Fianna Fáil TD Michael Kitt has said he was “very surprised” that former Labour TD Colm Keaveney was joining his party and admitted that half his local party was in revolt over the decision, which he found out about from local radio.

If the declaration by Bertie Ahern that he was one of the few socialists in the Dáil provoked a degree of mirthful scepticism, then yesterday’s announcement that former Labour Party chairman Galway East TD Colm Keaveney had joined Fianna Fáil confirmed again that our three main parties are more or less interchangeable, centrist and conservative.

Fianna Fáil has unveiled the former Labour chairman Colm Keaveney as the party's newest TD and given him a frontbench position.

The Fianna Fáil parliamentary meeting has unanimously approved the membership of Colm Keaveney.

The former chairman of the Labour Party has applied to join Fianna Fáil, the party has confirmed.

Labour elected Siptu official Lorraine Mulligan as its new chairperson over the weekend after a close competition for the position on the party’s executive board.

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The prospect of disaffected Fine Gael and Labour elected TDs joining forces to secure greater Dáil rights has grown stronger after two from either group held discussions.

Dublin legend Jimmy Keaveney has rubbished claims Jim Gavin’s men are going to brush Kerry aside in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final.

WHEN the then Fianna Fáil finance minister Seán McEntee announced in 1938 he was introducing an allowance for the leader of the opposition, he caused uproar in his party.

Former Labour Party Chairman Colm Keaveney said the Education Minister must ensure that no students are left waiting for their grants after the online application system crashed last night.

It could be the publishing sensation of the autumn, Fifty Shades of Red — the torrid tale of an often tortuous relationship between two powerful men battling for domination of the Labour Party.

Labour chairman Colm Keaveney resigned from the party saying it is “heading for disaster” and that he wanted to challenge the Coalition’s failed policies from the opposition benches.

It was billed as High Noon in the upper house.

Labour Party chief whip Emmet Stagg welcomed

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Colm Keaveney has quit as chairman and member of the Labour Party.

Labour party chairman Colm Keaveney claims Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s cuts to resource teaching for disabled children betray party values and should be reversed.

Moves to force a referendum on the X-Case legislation have been rejected by government ministers.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has been put on notice that a “showdown” conference must be held as soon as possible to avert a meltdown within Labour.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has dismissed any threat to his leadership from a breakaway group of “Real Labour” rebel TDs.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is set to cancel this year’s Labour Party conference in order to avoid a “bloodbath” showdown in the run-up to the budget.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has been dealt a fresh blow as a breakaway group of “Real Labour” rebel TDs are set for a bigger role in the Dáil.