Howlin pledges to raise the issue of finding the €600k to keep the helpline serviced 24 hours a day

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson tonight attended his first GAA match.

THE state is not adequately providing for aspects of asylum seeker welfare, according to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, whose members visited two controversial direct provision centres yesterday.

Members of the Oireachtas Health Committee will visit the Mosney accommodation centre in Co Meath after it emerged more than 150 asylum seekers are being moved from the facility.

Only a fifth of recommendations from a major suicide prevention plan have been properly acted on three years after it was first published, it emerged today.

A parliamentary supporter of Fianna Fail today urged RTE to snap up Big Brother favourite Brian Dowling.