So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has ordered that former Fianna Fail minister Pat Carey will not face prosecution in respect of abuse allegations widely publicised in 2015.

Cork singer Marlene Enright is one of the nominees for the Choice Music Prize. It’s an unexpected reward for her hard work in the music business, writes Ellie O’Byrne

The Irish Red Cross has revealed that it lost ambulances and life-saving equipment worth €250,000 in the floods that devastated parts of Co Donegal last month.

Irony was in short supply on Enda Kenny’s tour of north England this week, which was interrupted by the savage murder of MP Jo Cox, writes Michael Clifford

Former Fianna Fáil Minister Pat Carey has warned politicians would get an angry reception on the doorsteps if another election is called.

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Pat Carey has been denied his entitlement to due process, writes Michael Clifford

Pat Carey is gone. As a child might say ‘gone, gone’. He is now in the worst of all possible worlds, writes Terry Prone

Garda phones will be checked as part of an inquiry into how information into alleged abuse by a former minister was leaked.

Will Pat Carey and Fianna Fáil be subject to equal treatment now by the media?

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Pat Carey’s decision to reveal he is gay ahead of May’s marriage equality referendum was seen as a turning point for the yes campaign.

The pro-choice side is in danger of repeating the early complacency of the marriageequality campaign in their apparent desire to assume an easy win in the referendum, by merely talking to people who think the same as they do, writes Shaun Connolly

Averil Power says she tried to make changes from within but Fianna Fáil hasn’t changed and has no intention of doing so

Tánaiste Joan Burton has sent out a message to the gay community that Ireland is the best small country in which to have a wedding in if a couple decide to marry.

The vote to enshrine gay marriage in the constitution has been heralded as a new era with tears and joy.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said public debate around major social issues at times reduced faith in Jesus Christ to the level of belief in leprechauns.

Conservative party members have accused the Fianna Fáil “power elite” of turning their backs on “seriously minded Christians” by supporting the referendum on marriage equality in order to secure the general election “pink vote”.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has ruled out a so-called "conscience clause" for business people who are opposed to marriage equality.

A former government minister says lawyers would be the only winners if a "conscience clause" was included as part of same-sex marriage laws.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Pat Carey, who last month revealed at the age of 67 that he is gay, has urged committed Catholics to support the marriage equality referendum as they have been “the torch-bearers for human rights on other issues”.

The touch on the elbow, the whisper in the ear — Pat Carey admits he was nervous about some of the approaches he’s had from total strangers in the last few days.

The mothers of Ireland will swing the marriage equality vote, former Fianna Fáil minister Pat Carey has predicted after publicly coming out at the age of 67.

A former Fianna Fáil Minister said he thinks the next government will be a coalition between his party and Fine Gael.

Any negativity or cynicism in the media is largely the result of the cynical behaviour of our political classes, Mr Rabbitte, writes Michael Clifford.

Politicians of all hues paid their respects to Albert the peacemaker as thousands gathered to say their final goodbye to the former taoiseach.

Cork folk and roots band, the Hard Ground, are appealing to their fans for funds to record their second album — having gained a healthy following with their debut album, Broken Conversations.

It’s a big night at Youghal with the finals of the Red Mills Southern Sprint and the Rising Open Unraced taking place.

Former Fianna Fáil minister Pat Carey has been head-hunted to work in public relations.

WHEN the Labour party crashes and burns in the next general election political commentators will be able to trace the definitive start of its implosion in government to its shameless shafting of Roísín Shortall.

There’s lots to admire in the latest batch of albums released by a number of Cork-based music acts, writes Nikki fFrench Davis

Dan Boyle’s new book is the first insider account of the Fianna Fáil-Green government and the economic and banking disasters that struck on its watch. Today, in the second and final extract from the book, he outlines the central role which he and social media site Twitter played in the 2010 resignation of Fianna Fáil defence minister Willie O’Dea

IN his foreword in the National Substance Misuse Strategy steering group report, released last February, group chairman Dr Tony Holohan spoke of Ireland’s “long and sometimes difficult association with alcohol”.

The annual Inch point-to-point took place at its traditional Ballyanthony venue yesterday and, on a wind-swept afternoon that witnessed nine races, the Colin Bowe-trained Clondaw Knight (4/6) impressed by winning the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

MORE than 50 Kerry children yesterday made a simple but special request to Santa — save our school.