More than 200 RTÉ bosses received pay bonuses last year, amid plans to cut 300 jobs at the State broadcaster.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been branded as “indecisive” over his delay in appointing his 11 nominees to the Seanad by one of his former junior ministers.

The election campaign has begun and with it comes the stream of cute baby photos with various politicians and overenthusiastic handshakes with wide grins.