He was a leading figure in the campaign to introduce same-sex marriage.

A man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with murder following a fatal stabbing at a house in Dublin at the weekend.

Fine Gael are expected tonight to consider allowing party councillors back a non-party candidate for the presidential election, a move that will likely help Independents get nominated.

Potential presidential election candidate Gerard Craughwell has risked undermining his campaign by claiming the highest office in the country is a “meet and greet job” that has no impact on the general public.

Fiachra Ó Cionnaith breaks down the potential list of candidates for the Presidential race.

A man who admitted providing funding to the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) is to be sentenced in June.

‘Everyone is sticking to their guns,’ says jury foreman

The man who claimed that his older sister sexually assaulted him was yesterday accused of making up the allegation as a bargaining chip to be used against her when she applied for access to his son.

A 46-year-old woman was put on trial by judge and jury yesterday accused of sexually assaulting her brother when he was aged from nine and she was in her early 20s.

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

We dare you to watch this without smiling.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Birthdays when you’re living overseas can be a bit tough as you’re missing your friends and family.

IS THIS going to be a cod liver oil general election or a plague on all your houses one, asks Alison O’Connor. 

A man accused of murdering a 25-year-old man in Waterford last year has dismissed his legal team and has asked to recall his nephew, who is a witness in the trial, for cross-examination, a jury has heard.

A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a man with a stab wound to the chest in Waterford last year.

The lead lawyers in the Graham Dwyer murder trial are two of the most in-demand criminal lawyers in the country.

A nurse who taped a patient’s mouth would not be an ongoing risk to patients in future, a psychiatrist told a disciplinary hearing yesterday.

The late Brian Lenihan was remembered by family, friends and political colleagues at the launch of a book reflecting on his life and times.

A nurse who put surgical tape over a severely brain damaged patient admitted yesterday that his action amounted to professional misconduct.

Former Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery has said that the party’s recent election campaign was very weak and one of the worst he has ever seen.

A man who admitted that his driving caused the death of an “inspirational” teacher in a head-on collision last year has put flowers at the scene of the fatal crash and met with the victim’s family yesterday, a court heard.

Imagine what would happen if a bank robber or serial offender told a judge that they would ‘swing around into compliance’!

St Vincent’s Hospital Group was legally advised by former justice minister Michael McDowell that salary top-ups for seven senior staff were compliant with government pay policy because the extra funding came from private sources.

Health chiefs are set to investigate claims by a senator that there was “a cover-up” by management at St Vincent’s Hospital over the fraudulent charging of health insurers for cancer drugs.

The Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to call in the board of St. Vincent's Hospital after claims of fraud by Senator John Crown.

A man who crashed a stolen vehicle into an elderly motorist leaving him with severe injuries has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail with the final two suspended.

Former Fine Gael junior minister Lucinda Creighton lobbed another political hand grenade in the direction of Taoiseach Enda Kenny after declaring that members of the Reform Alliance will again oppose Fine Gael policy and support the retention of the Seanad.

The Daniel O’Connell School, discontinued for a number of years in his native Co Kerry, is to be revived this week.

A campaign to save the Seanad, involving a number of prominent historians, academics and political personalities, will be launched today, promising to strongly oppose the Government’s “populist” proposal to abolish the Upper House.

Abolishing the Seanad for a money-saving soundbite is a knee-jerk reaction that will only consolidate more power in the hands of Dáil incumbents, writes Michael Clifford

ONE of the gigs worth your attention next weekend is the Trim Swift Festival.

A Garda was temporarily blinded after getting a kick in the face during disturbances at a Halloween bonfire, a court has heard.

As author of the Listening to Voices survey in 2010 and co-author of the updated survey earlier this year, I would like to respond to Matt Cooper’s article in the Irish Examiner (Apr 13).

DEAR Tánaiste,I wanted to congratulate you on a really good speech to the party conference at the weekend.

The leading barrister who shot to prominence for her cross-examination of Sharon Collins, aka “Lying Eyes”, was the best paid senior prosecutor in the country last year, new figures from the DPP show.

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

A FIANNA Fáil senator has admitted her party breached political ethics and has said there is now no place for those who carried around suitcases of cash or claimed expenses for holiday homes.

BRIAN LENIHAN’S removal will take place at 6pm tonight in Dublin.

WHAT a pity that a person of Fergus Finlay’s ability fails to show any impartiality whatsoever when it comes to writing politics.