Independent Senator Paul Bradford says it is “very possible” he will contest a seat in the next general election for his wife Lucinda Creighton’s new party.

Senator Paul Bradford - and the husband of Lucinda Creighton - said he has not yet decided whether he will run for a seat in the Dail when his wife sets up her new party.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s move to force a Government majority onto the banking inquiry was compared to what happened in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia by opposition senators.

The Taoiseach should intervene immediately in the case of a black man on death row for 28 years in the US, it was claimed today.

Two politicians tonight withdrew from a visit to the trial of three Irish men arrested in Colombia on suspicion of training FARC guerillas.