Labour has chosen two junior ministers to stand for the upcoming Seanad elections.

Tipperary TD Noel Coonan has hit out at constituency colleague Alan Kelly for acting like the “only person in government”.

A woman who sent obscene phone messages threatening to bomb President Michael D Higgins and several government ministers has pleaded guilty to harassing a priest.

A woman sent obscene phone messages to Áras an Uachtaráin threatening to bomb President Michael D Higgins if he visited England, a court has heard.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny took refuge inside a hotel for over three hours as he came under further fire last night from water charges demonstrators.

Philippe Legrain, the economic advisor to former European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, believes Ireland should threaten to veto issues important to European leaders in order to receive concessions on its bank debt.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has taken to Twitter to declare that he is not involved with the terror group ISIS.

"Xanadu" has often been a word associated with strongholds, from the original centre of Kubla Khan’s empire to a media mogul’s imposing mansion in Orson Wells’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane.

The country's largest trade union SIPTU has backed protests against water charges, and said it would begin talks with other unions about peaceful demonstrations against the charges.

The Taoiseach has been met by a large crowd of protestors this afternoon in Cork as he arrived to a job announcement in the city.

Gardaí are investigating a death threat to a Fine Gael TD following comments in which he compared water charge protesters to ISIS militants.

People who fail to pay their household water bills will not be pursued in the courts, Irish Water boss John Tierney pledged last night as those calling for a boycott claimed it will be difficult for the Government to penalise non-payers.

Gardaí are investigating a death threat phoned into the office of a Government TD after he compared water-charge protestors to Islamist militants.

Gardaí are investigating a death threat to a Fine Gael TD following comments by him in the Dáil earlier today.

Moves are afoot to revive the Irish sugar industry but it will take a lot of knocking of heads together, writes Joe Dermody

The country’s gone to the dogs, and a group of Fine Gael TDs are planning to follow the pack.

The joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine expressed cross-party support yesterday for a revival of the sugar industry, but suggested that the two main sugar groups should adopt a joint approach.

Denying Michael Lowry the right to meet ministers would deprive his constituents of a voice in parliament, James Reilly has said.

THE daughter of a Co Tipperary couple who died in a crash on Wednesday night is in hospital battling serious injuries she sustained in the collision.

TWO courthouses are facing closure despite hundreds of thousands of euro being spent on renovation works over the past decade.

The Garda Representative Association (GRA) has today strongly condemned the announcement by Government that there will be a ban on new recruits for the next two years.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).

There are 70 seats filled so far.

Fine Gael's Noel Coonan has been elected on the second count in Tipp North.

With 105 of 157 boxes opened in Tipperary North (ie 67%), Michael Lowry looks to have garnered 29.1% of the vote.

A ZINC mine which is about to be taken over by an Indian multi-national has become the scene of tragedy following an underground explosion which killed one man and left another injured.

THE Department of Agriculture will assist with a study to assess the possibility of redeveloping the sugar beet industry, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

BOTH sides in the Fine Gael street fight promised they would deliver the decisive blow throughout yesterday.

FOUL-MOUTHED TDs will be forced to mind their language under a new code of conduct.

“WHO’S the cougar?” The slang word, commonly used as a reference to a woman of a certain age who is attractive to younger men, would have been unusual parliamentary language at the best of times – but as a TD shouted it while the Dáil chamber was convulsed by a row over sexism, it was especially surprising.

LONG after the country’s coal mines closed, the men who chipped away at the seams struggle for breath, with the industry’s filthy legacy lying on their lungs.

Some 31 jobs are to be axed with the closure of a pharmaceutical company in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, it emerged today.

RTÉ is seeking an increase in the TV licence fee, despite predictions by the station’s management that it will break even financially this year.

AN elderly woman caring for her special needs sister has been forced to endure a year-long battle for a vital carer’s allowance because of a growing backlog of applications for the essential state financial support, it has been claimed.

The Oireachtas will introduce legislation to stamp out mobile phone bullying if operators in the market don’t find a solution, it was claimed today.