There is no need for patients, hospitals or healthcare professionals to stockpile medicines ahead of Brexit, according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).

Timmy Dooley's comments came hours before the Taoiseach and Mr Johnson finally spoke on the phone this afternoon, six days after the new British PM was selected.

Taxpayers could be faced with a €7bn carbon emissions bill over the next decade.

The final seat on Wicklow County Council has gone to the Labour Party after a dead-heat between the last two remaining candidates resulted in a two-day recount.

Waterford City and County Council is calling on the Government to supply pharmacies with breathalyser kits to prevent drivers from failing morning-time roadside tests.

Free late-night parking will be introduced in Cork’s two public car parks from next weekend in a bid to secure the afternoon car ban on the city’s main street.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has called on Sinn Féin to take up its seats in Westminster given that the political situation is now on a “knife-edge”.

Calls have been made for an independent review of Irish Water’s plans to spend €1.3bn building a system to pump drinking water from the Shannon to the greater Dublin area.

Fears have been expressed about the re-emergence of so-called joyriding in Cork City after an almost 70% spike in the number of reported car thefts.

Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly has said he regrets using bolt cutters to unclamp his car and added that he has now paid the fine.

Tanáiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he hopes the resignation of Barry McElduff will help create space to restore talks in the North.

The Department of Housing is to be urged to let local authorities build council houses with downstairs bathrooms and bedrooms so they are readily usable for tenants who become disabled or too frail for stairs.

The Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment is set to recommend a straight repeal of article 40.3.3, its complete removal from the Constitution, and for any future abortion laws to be decided solely by the Dáil.

Sinn Féin’s deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald will lead the party into the general election should it happen, her colleague Pearse Doherty has said.

Mary Lou McDonald looks set to become the next Sinn Féin President after a number of other contenders ruled themselves out of the race.

Sinn Fein is still committed to making a deal with the DUP to return to powersharing, Gerry Adams has insisted.

Sinn Fein leader at Stormont, Michelle O'Neill and the Democratic Unionist Nigel Dodds repeatedly clashed in a heated televised election debate this evening.

The new deadline for forming a powersharing government in Northern Ireland is June 29.

The Democratic Unionist Party is ready to fight another snap election in Northern Ireland if necessary, a senior party member has said.

Excavations at other mother and baby homes are being demanded after the discovery of “significant quantities” of infant remains at Tuam.

A senior Democratic Unionist has revealed that four family members run boilers under the controversial green energy scheme at the centre of Stormont's powersharing crisis.

The son of Ian Paisley has paid a glowing tribute to Martin McGuinness and urged the Democratic Unionist leadership to follow the example set by the Sinn Fein veteran and his father.

An ex-special adviser to former Northern Ireland first minister Arlene Foster has resigned from his role at Stormont.

Rare images of Tralee in the 1860s, believed to be the earliest-ever of Kerry’s county town, will form part of a two-day conference to explore the complex and “eventful” 800-year-old history of the Anglo-Norman settlement.

Cork City Council’s decision not to increase the local property tax (LPT) next year means it will be €777,000 better off — but local householders will face hikes of up to €70 each as a result, depending on the valuation of their home.

The Garda Commissioner is expected to issue a statement as early as today in a bid to quell controversy over her directions to lawyers over Sergeant Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins inquiry.

It a dog’s life for strays in Co Cork, but far worse for unwanted horses.

Offering incentives to use street-front buildings in Kerry towns as homes would bring “the pulse” back into rural towns as well as helping tackle the housing waiting list, local politicians have said.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams hopes that the visit of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to Ireland next month will "promote reconciliation".

Pro-life Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín has refused to say if he will vote in favour of abortion legislation should the issue come before the Dáil again, despite his party’s ard fheis backing calls for fatal foetal abnormality terminations and the repeal of the eight amendment.

A government minister dedicated to the fight against drug abuse is needed to help combat rocketing heroin use in Cork, Sinn Féin has warned.

Throughout austerity, many commentators have bemoaned the loss of the ‘Fighting Irish’? Compared to the Greeks, it is said, we have accepted our fate. But is this true?

THERE’S a big hole out there where establishment parties used to be, and there will be some fun in filling it.

The Dáil is discussing the allegations of sexual abuse by members of the Provisional Republican movement.

A standoff between an angry crowd and armed gardaí in Waterford City over the weekend resulted in one arrest after a front door of a house was kicked in and windows smashed.

In many ways the Government’s dilemma over the scale of budget consolidation it should introduce on October 14 exposes in a nutshell the ongoing problems of an incomplete monetary union.

Apple made an issue of the jobs in its Cork factory when working on a sweetheart tax deal with the Revenue Commissioners, according to the minutes of meetings between the two released by the European Commission.

German economic growth will show a revised shrinking towards zero for the second quarter of the year, due to the Ukraine crisis and the tough new economic sanctions imposed on Russia — going down from 0.8% in the first quarter — the head of the Munich-based Ifo institute said at the weekend.

The Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe has been told by interim Garda commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan that his allegations of harassment will be independently investigated by an officer of his choice.

Almost all Opposition TDs have walked out of the Dáil after refusing to take part in the passage of the Water Services Bill.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has again raised the issue of the Dáil Bar with Leinster House authorities.

Rival politicians have been urged to step back from tit-for-tat rows after a Sinn Fein minister was injured during a contentious parade in Northern Ireland.