The Department of Justice has admitted that officials never examined any private email or mobile phones belonging to ministers or their advisors during its search for files linked to the disclosures tribunal.

Ireland’s spiralling rental crisis is failing to be addressed because one in every five TDs are landlords and have a clear conflict of interest on the issue, campaigners have warned.

The Dáil public accounts committee chair has claimed Nama officials warned him they had a “dossier” on his previous comments about the group at the same time they issued a clear legal threat over the findings of the PAC’s Project Eagle report.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been accused of attempting to “influence or muzzle” a Public Accounts Committee investigation into the Project Eagle controversy after demanding negative findings against him are removed.

Nama chose not to “terminate” Frank Cushnahan’s role with the group when serious conflict of interest allegations surrounding Project Eagle first emerged because to do so would have damaged a recession-hit Ireland’s reputation even further.

Fianna Fáil will not agree to a Fine Gael-led minority government unless Enda Kenny’s party secures the support of at least seven non-party TDs.

Fianna Fáil has decisively rejected an offer of a coalition government with Fine Gael and Independents but discussed abstaining from the next vote for Taoiseach to allow Enda Kenny to win the vote.

The Coalition’s nakedly blatant electioneering as they lapped it up in Lissadell proves they are no different from the last shower and, sadly, their chicken, opportunist decisions will as ever come home to wreck the roost, writes Shaun Connolly

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was sent a “rope with a noose” in the aftermath of the economic crash, but has continued to reject claims that he is responsible for what happened.

Oireachtas authorities are set to open an investigation into the cross-party banking inquiry after an internal whistleblower claimed some witnesses have received “preferential treatment” — including briefings over dinners days before public grillings.

One little girl is speaking to all our inner bookworms today.

A levy on all alcohol sold in supermarkets and off-licences should be imposed to raise €200m a year for suicide prevention services, Fianna Fáil Senator Marc Mac Sharry has urged.

The banking inquiry is at the centre of a major political row ahead of its first meeting scheduled for this week, with Fianna Fáil urging senior ministers to withdraw "misleading" accusations that it engaged in a "political stroke" to nominate a member to the committee.

Fiann Fáil is calling for a major restructuring of the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

A “handful” of people are responsible for implementing the national suicide prevention strategy, according to the former deputy head of the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

STATE plans for a job creation “strategic investment bank” are to be replaced with a “fund” as the pre-election promise is “difficult to implement in current market conditions”.

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