The Taoiseach says he will not be calling for a full lock-down unless to told to do so by medical officers.

Families caught up in the Drogheda feud are experiencing “severe trauma” and struggling to find the necessary help, a support group has said.

Were Queen Elizabeth II to break her Scottish holiday and call a press conference on a Balmoral patio, corgis quartering the ground at her feet, to encourage Britain’s politicians to pause and very carefully consider the consequences of a no-deal Brexit, she would be dismissed as a project-fear agent, an EU collaborator and, worst of all, Remoaner.

Latest: Theresa May has described the delay to Brexit as a “matter of great personal regret”, adding: “It is now time for MPs to decide.”

Party leader Leo Vardakar keeps insisting (at least on RTÉ) there will be no early election. Trouble is, someone forgot to tell the troops at the ard fheis, writes Juno McEnroe.

Just like an A-list celeb.

Opposition parties are demanding to know if the Government did a special deal with Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan over her shock resignation.

TODAY’S interview with junior health minister Finian McGrath offers an unusual glimpse into the dynamics at play around the cabinet table. 

New Taoiseach Leo Varadkar may be inheriting an Ireland that is back in the money, but the investment challenges facing him remain daunting, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Yesterday’s startling events, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan’s resignation and Cabinet revelations about widespread Garda telephone bugging, came as close to rendering the acronym GUBU insufficient as any scandal since double-murderer Malcom McArthur was arrested in the home of then attorney general Patrick Connolly in the summer of 1982.

The Waterford Pilot Training College which left hundreds of trainee pilots stranded in Florida after taking up to €80,000 in tuition fees from them is being investigated by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

Cash-stricken Cork County Council cannot afford to fix some of the “appalling” and “impassable” roads on its seven inhabited islands.

The Transport Minister Leo Vardakar has denied that new drink driving laws, which include changes to the penalties involved, are a "soft touch".

The Tourism Minister Leo Vardakar has said he backs his Cabinet colleague Richard Bruton's proposals to reform wage agreements, but admits a compromise will have to be reached.

Public transport fares are set to increase and there will be a reduction in services, according to the Transport Minister Leo Vardakar.