The opposition party's agriculture spokesperson Charlie McConalogue demanded the clarity before Wednesday night's House of Commons votes on all different Brexit options.

The Government must learn from the delays in response to recent flooding in Donegal and put immediate supports in place, claim Fianna Fáil.

Fianna Fáil have hit out at the Taoiseach for seeking headlines instead of taking real action.

Calls have been made for a special compensation fund to help struggling tillage farmers who have lost up to half of their crops, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.

In 2011, Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue defied the national trend to become a new TD in Donegal while the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan lost her seat in the neighbouring constituency.

Work is to begin at Government level to find ways to remove more than 25,000 students from the private rental market, five months after the Department of Education was alerted to the campus accommodation shortfall.

A review of the special needs assistant (SNA) scheme should not lead to cuts for children with disabilities, Fianna Fáil has warned.

Fianna Fáil and teacher leaders have criticised the continued use of more than 1,500 retired teachers annually to supervise and correct Junior and Leaving Certificate exams.

A shortage of teachers with the right subjects or difficulties for unemployed people getting to rural locations are among the reasons given by schools for continuing to give substitution work to hundreds of retired teachers.

Thousands of parents whose children have not yet had their discretionary medical cards returned have had to pay up to €650 for school bus tickets for next term, Fianna Fáil has claimed.

The future of major reforms of the junior cycle looks uncertain as outgoing Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has failed to reach any compromise with teacher unions.

A delay of 18 months in the Government publishing a report on the future of smaller primary schools has been criticised in the Dáil.

The announcement of €35m for schools to carry out repairs over the summer — right before voting — has been described by Fianna Fáil as electioneering by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.

A protracted stand-off between teachers and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn over junior cycle reform looks likely after he said he is pushing ahead as planned.

Almost 60,000 secondary school students will begin a radically revised junior cycle next year as the phasing-out of the traditional Junior Certificate examination gets under way.

Fianna Fáil is calling on the Government to assist with the recovery bill at Letterkenny General Hospital.

A major cutback in special needs assistants needs to be reversed, Fianna Fáil has warned.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has received Cabinet approval for extra resources to reverse planned cuts to special needs education from September.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was accused of misleading the Dáil after he insisted there would be no reductions in resources for children with special needs.

More the 2,200 students are still awaiting grants as the college year ends because of problems with the Susi processing system.

Amid the chaos, confusion, denials, delays and information deficit leading up to the historic bank debt deal, the only constant was Twitter. Claire O’Sullivan traces the story from the first leak on Wednesday.

Students could be hit by hidden budgetary costs in addition to the loss of up to €1,500 that will hit thousands of grant recipients.

Children need to be equipped and trained to deal with cyberbulling, Fianna Fáil TD Charlie McConalogue has said.

The funeral of Erin Gallagher has taken place in the Donegal town of Stranorlar.

The way the families and users of a service for the intellectually disabled have been treated by the HSE is a “national scandal”, a politician has claimed.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has denied that government cuts will result in the loss of services to people with disabilities in the north-west.

The Government’s response to serious concerns over the safety of troubled teenage girls at an HSE- run secure facility in Cork has been branded “totally inadequate”.

A family with four children will be at least €432 worse-off a year as anticipated child benefit cuts swept through all sectors of society.

The Government is to announce tomorrow that it is shelving plans to pay for a cross-border road to Derry.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was not wearing her wedding ring a week before her death, a witness has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court.