Fianna Fáil health spokesman Billy Kelleher has called on the health minister to make a statement following claims he had planned to renege on a commitment to provide €35m for mental health ever year.

I have just been watching a TV discussion involving Minister Leo Varadker who spoke about his intention to legislate on minimum pricing and other restrictions on alcoholic drink.

Health Minister Leo Varadker has ‘come out’ as gay. As a gay man, I think this is brilliant. However, a part of me feels sad that his ‘coming out’ (it’s a peculiar expression) has made such headline news. Do heterosexual people ‘come out’?

Many people commenting on Minister for Health, Leo Varadker’s coming out as gay have said that it shouldn’t have been necessary for him to have done so. I don’t agree.

Star rugby players such as Brian O’Driscoll and Paul O’Connell would be fabulous ambassadors for an all-Ireland rugby bid for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, and if the public get behind it we’ll [have a] very good chance of landing rugby’s biggest prize, Sports Minister Leo Varadker has said.

Falling passenger numbers at Shannon have been halted and the airport is set to show a growth in 2013 for the first time in five years, the airports new chief, Neil Pakey, said yesterday.

Tourism Minister Leo Varadker has accepted an invitation to get “down and dirty” in Co Monaghan next Saturday when participants from all over the world take part in this year’s annual Irish Bog Snorkelling Championships.

PHISHING, googling and apps.

A minister has said it was “not practical in the foreseeable future” to ban sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry.

CIT Economics Lecturer Tom O’Connor believes the IMF/EU deal “should be cast aside”.

AS the woman opened the bedroom door to let the two young doctors in to see her sick husband, one of them put his arm out to halt the other.