TDs and senators disclosed €378,920 worth of political donations last year, with the majority of that going to the two Oireachtas members who ran in the presidential election.

Giving 17-year-olds the right to vote looks set to be one of the first reforms examined by a new convention on constitutional change.

Gay Mitchell, widely regarded as the biggest loser of the presidential election battle has now been revealed as its biggest spender.

TACKLING homelessness will be the “absolute priority” of the new Minister for Housing Jan O’Sullivan, who was promoted to the cabinet yesterday.

AS the presidential candidates gathered for their first set-piece debate of the campaign, one person stood out from all the others as the perfect head of state.

AN undercover British police officer who infiltrated a radical environmental movement encouraged illegal activity during protests opposing the controversial Shell Corrib pipe-line in north Mayo, an Irish Examiner investigation has revealed.

FROM a Gaelic chieftain surveying the Boyle bypass to the giant, rearing horse overseeing the roadway from Tralee to Cork city, Ann Lane has spent four years and travelled over 14,000 miles on an odyssey to catalogue the country’s main pieces of public art.

COURT injunctions should be issued against unions involved in industrial action at the passport office, Fine Gael’s Alan Shatter has demanded.

THE Vatican should break its silence and come clean on what it knew about systemic clerical child abuse in Ireland, Labour foreign affairs spokesman Micheal D Higgins has demanded.

The third seat has been filled in Galway West, with a real battle now underway between Fianna Fail and the PDs for the fifth seat.