This coronavirus lockdown isn’t all bad for parents. Yes, for most of us, it’s a nightmare trying to juggle childcare, work, and downing half-a-pack of Custard Creams in the kitchen without getting caught.

Sorting out Cork people for ages

AS rough and challenging a week as it has been for the country and sport, it has generally been perceived as a good one for Irish basketball.

JUST how does a ‘caretaker’ Taoiseach get away with shutting down the country while away on foreign soil, without Cabinet approval and with no mandate to govern?

Leo Varadkar will have to use all his charm and political know-how in Washington over the next two days if he is to ensure ongoing friendly relations with the Trump administration.

Fine Gael leader, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is prepared to “let Micheál Martin sweat” and did not seek a mandate to continue talks with Fianna Fáil from his party.

Mr Varadkar disclosed on Tuesday that he wrote to Sinn Féin to inform them that he and his party are ready to enter exploratory talks

Sinn Féin has held a seven-and-a-half hour meeting involving “detailed discussions on policy” with the Green Party and has agreed to meet once more next week.

The nine-member group of independents have met with both Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin today and urged both leaders to “get on with it” in terms of forming a government.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is set to seek common ground with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on party policies when both men meet next week amid efforts to form a government.

If you want to get up close and personal with wildlife, it would be hard to find somewhere as uncrowded and unspoilt as Zimbabwe, writes Mike Milotte

Outgoing Finance Minister and Fine Gael TD Paschal Donohoe has insisted Leo Varadkar will continue as leader of his party, despite its woeful election performance.

Last Thursday night, I started getting picture messages from friends which showed a message from Paschal Donohoe, the Dublin Central TD and finance minister.

A sideways glance at Election 2020.

Each of the three party leaders were falling over themselves to present the face of change last night, writes Michael Clifford

At last this dullest of elections has caught fire. Now it threatens to be a bonfire.

As we enter the final week of the election campaign, our in-house agony aunt Ask Audrey shares her tips for dealing with canvassers, and tries to predict the winners.

There is a lingering suspicion that everybody in Thursday’s TV leaders debate was administered a high dose of adrenaline as they entered the studio. All were out of the blocks as if they’d been pumped up on something, and none more so than co-presenter Ivan Yates.

Another debate, another ninety minutes wired for sound and on guard for a slip or stray word.

Fine Gael was the most talked about political party on Twitter in the first full week of the election campaign.

“Leo has been a brilliant servant to Donegal football.”

Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has called for a "grand coalition" of the left to ensure Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil are not returned to power.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar insists Fine Gael will fight to recover in the election campaign after another bruising poll for his party.

It happened as he walked into the Omni Park Shopping Centre in Santry.

A great man for the one-liners is our Micheál. As we prepared to quiz him about their TV encounter and Leo Varadkar’s car crash response to that illegal drug question (some cannabis in college but that was a long time ago) the Fianna Fáil leader was unexpectedly wreathed in smoke from a nearby ventilation system.

The simple combination of Fianna Fáil and SSIA is enough to send shivers down the spine of anyone, writes Alison O’Connor

The Taoiseach, who was struck down by a stomach bug on the trail forcing him to abandon a planned walkabout at the Santry Omni Park in Dublin.

THEY came, they smiled, they debated — and we all went home none the wiser. Last night, the nation held its breath, paddled away from Love Island, and tuned into the celebrity death match between Leo and Micheál.

The Green Party's bright young star, Saoirse McHugh, has revealed some pretty radical ideas as to her ideal vision of how Ireland should be run.

Sinn Féin has said it would be a "sham" for TV leader debates to go ahead without party president Mary Lou McDonald and that it was considering legal action to reverse this.