People expecting former environment minister Phil Hogan to apologise for his key role in the creation of Irish Water will be waiting a long time, the Government chief whip has warned.

YOUR editorial on the Willie O’Dea affair blames what you call “our tolerance of institutionalised dishonesty” for the problems of the country (January 20).

THERE ARE few tragedies that so graphically, so starkly, so very everyday and heartbreaking, that illustrate our society’s catalogue of despair and failure than our growing drugs crisis.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must intervene in the troubled talks process over the controversial Corrib gas project, it was claimed tonight.

AMNESTY International, the UN and a host of other organisations have warned that EU proposals on asylum seekers could breach international law.