The Government is to make changes to help families who are left in “limbo” when a relative goes missing.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has relinquished three of his Seanad nominees to Fianna Fáil as part of a special deal with Micheál Martin.

Environment Minister Alan Kelly has said the Government has introduced measures as "far as we can go" to prevent the privatisation of Irish Water and that such an event would happen "over my dead body".

Uproar greeted a Fianna Fáil senator’s tirade against Enda Kenny in which the Taoiseach was branded “a clown urinating on the Seanad”.