As the debacle of Irish Water continues to descend into the depths of farcical proportions, nobody seems to mention anymore the man who is now comfortably lapping it up on an obscene salary in Brussels – former Minister for the Environment and now European Commissioner Phil Hogan.

Will the Labour Party ever learn? This must be the question uppermost in the minds of supporters following the humiliating and devastating losses in the European, and local elections.

The giant pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp, and Dohme is to shed 60 jobs at its south Tipperary plant at Ballydine.

THE sole survivor of a boating tragedy in which four fishery officers died has been suspended without pay by his fishery board employers.