I was astonished by Jennifer Hough’s article (Irish Examiner, May 26) re the Roscommon vote on same-sex marriage. She implies it was a stain on the Roscommon family escutcheon.

The Irish Government should look to its Greek counterpart for some lessons in hard negotiation skills, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan said today.

I was intrigued to read MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s account of his recent experience of the emergency department when taking his seven week old child. Mr Flanagan likened it to a “ war zone hospital”.

Diarmuid O’Flynn, founder of the ‘Ballyhea Says No’ protest movement, has been appointed parliamentary assistant to MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan.

Independent MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan spent an evening in his local emergency department with his seven-week-old baby because of fears she had contracted cryptosporidium via the water supply.

Despite trailing Fianna Fáil candidate Ivan Connaughton by 1,114 votes after the first count, Michael Fitzmaurice (Independent) leads the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election after the fifth count.

WILL the Ming Dynasty continue to rule in Roscommon, and if so, is the by-election to be remembered as Micheál Martin’s last stand — the beginning of the end for his leadership?

By-elections in Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South-West will be held on Friday, October 10, the Government has announced.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

The controversial politician Luke Ming Flanagan has picked his first row in the European Parliament with fellow Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness.

The head of the country’s biggest business body has dismissed the economic policies of new MEP, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan.

As fledgling candidate Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan took wing for Europe, veteran MEP Jim Higgins acknowledged he was poised to make his Euro exit.

Independent Luke Ming Flanagan has topped the poll, as expected, in the Midlands North-West constituency in the European elections.

The counting of votes is to resume at 9am in the Midlands Northwest constituency – where four European Parliament candidates will be elected.

Cannabis campaigner Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is on his way from Dáil Éireann to Brussels by virtue of a sensational win in the Midlands North-West constituency.

Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan says he is not afraid of being forgotten if he wins a seat in the European election.

Indications are that Independent Luke 'Ming' Flanagan is on course to win a European seat in the Midlands North West constituency.

Luke "Ming" Flanagan is on the canvass on Galway’s Shop St for just a little while before he is marched off to the nearest Garda station.

As the wealth gap globally widens, a political backlash has begun among an increasingly militant public, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A complaint about “serious allegation of corruption within the national drugs squad” has been made to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission by Independent TD Luke Ming Flanagan.

Outspoken TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, has declared he is entering the European election race and said if he’s elected one of his first proposals will be for Ireland to abandon the euro currency.

Enda might still abandon Mick and Ming

THE opposition stormed out of the Dáil — nobody noticed. The stunt, which was to protest the Government’s habit of railroading legislation through the Oireachtas only drew mild attention because it followed a TD’s bid to get a minister to drink contaminated water during a rowdy debate on the introduction of metering.

Deputy Luke “Ming” Flanagan’s attempt to have cannabis regulated was up in smoke last night after it was soundly beaten by 111-8 votes in the Dáil last night.

Legalising cannabis would not be a radical move, Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan told the Dáil today.

A politician has called for cannabis coffee shops and social clubs to be allowed under his radical attempt to decriminalise the drug.

The contents of the Micheál Martin tapes were shocking.

Today's Twitter pick comes from Finian McGrath, Independent TD for Dublin North Central.

Independent TD Luke Ming Flanagan has made a desperate plea to voters for support, admitting he has made mistakes but claiming he will go on to do “great things” for his people.

Independent TDs have rounded on Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and called on the outspoken politician to leave the Dáil’s technical group because his penalty points shame is distracting from business.

THE excoriation of Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has been a thing to behold.

Outspoken TD Luke Ming Flanagan claimed nearly the full mobile phone allowance available to politicians, but did not use taxpayers’ funds to purchase a hands-free phone kit for his car.

The whip of the Dáil technical group, which includes Luke Ming Flanagan, has described the Roscommon TD’s penalty points fiasco as indefensible.

PERHAPS Charlie Haughey was the ultimate free spirit. He did not even own his own clothes.

BACK in December I opened my weekly column in this newspaper with the following sentences: “Well done to independent TDs Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Luke “Ming” Flanagan and Joan Collins for trying to perform a public service in the Dáil this week.

The Guards, says Ming, are corrupt

Pressure was piled on TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan to answer further questions about the quashing of his penalty points after a county manager rejected a claim he “sorted out” their cancellation.

A “victim of corruption”.

Independent TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has blamed Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett for the fact his children are being teased over the way he dresses.

Five Chinese men have been remanded in custody in connection with a garda raid on a cannabis growhouse in North Cork last Monday.

Roscommon TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, a colleague of under-fire deputy Mick Wallace in the Dáil Technical Group, has admitted being "hypocritical" over the Wexford TD's tax affairs.

Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan has said he has been contacted by a number of patients asking him to fight for the legalisation of cannabis on medical grounds.

World stocks rebounded today as pledges by European officials to resolve the region’s debt problems once and for all helped soothe market jitters.