FIANNA FÁIL’S decision on its last full day in power to appoint two of its own councillors to state boards was classic “stroke politics” and should never have happened, one of the party’s own TDs has said.

THE people of Moneygall believe an American presidential visit will change forever their place in history, and it is hard to argue otherwise.

MARY HANAFIN appointed a Fianna Fáil councillor and friend of Brian Cowen to the board of the Irish Sports Council on her last full day as Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister.

ON February 1 last, the then Government issued a curious statement.

Barack Obama’s ancestral Irish homestead could be transformed into a museum or heritage centre to welcome the President-elect to Ireland should he visit in the future.