Tipperary TD Noel Coonan has hit out at constituency colleague Alan Kelly for acting like the “only person in government”.

IMAGINE my surprise when I saw a sign for the Gaeltacht from a roundabout somewhere deep in Dublin 18. 

It’s a bit rich of Mr Kenny to launch a commission on low pay when his salary is €185,000 a year, or €3,500 a week, which is more than the leaders of the much larger Britain and France earn

The Cabinet reshuffle is, for the most part, just that - a reshuffle. But amid the familiar faces moved from one portfolio to another, a handful of politicians have made fresh space at the Cabinet table.

Pro-life and anti-austerity groups are planning to mount protests at Fine Gael's national conference.

Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa will be laid to rest today, writes Eddie Cassidy

Senior Fine Gael members in Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s constituency of Mayo have written to Phil Hogan, the environment minister, to express anger at proposals to change its boundaries.

Thousands are expected to gather at the Mansion House in Dublin today to pay their respects to the former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald.

Jim Old’s training talents were once again on show at Newbury as he brought Counting House back from the brink to land the Racing UK For Your Pub Call 0870 351 8834 Handicap Hurdle.

“SINGLE party government — no thanks!” By climbing up lamp posts delivering this message in 2002, Michael McDowell halted the momentum towards a Fianna Fáil overall majority and got the PDs back in power.

Political Correspondent Paul O’Brien unravels the events behind FG’s turbulent and emotionally charged week.

LISBON will do nothing for job creation as there is not a single mention of jobs in the treaty, Libertas leader and No campaigner Declan Ganley has said.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore faced accusations of using desperate tactics to boost voter numbers last night with criticism over a last-minute letter delivered to south Dublin homes attacking Fine Gael.

THE Taoiseach’s brother yesterday rallied to his defence and accused opposition parties of instigating a targeted dirty-tricks campaign against the Fianna Fáil leader.

HOUSEBUILDER Joe Moran yesterday disclosed to the Mahon planning tribunal how he paid €20,000 in 2002 to Fine Gael county councillor Anne Devitt, who helped him get public road access to his lands.

YOUR editorial claim (Irish Examiner, November 7) that the Government is merely rewarding incompetence by rehiring recently retired civil servants to continue to serve in their previous departments is dubious.

ST AIDAN, because he is said to have miraculously saved a stag from hounds, is invoked as protector of hunted animals - his emblem is a stag.

NEW Fine Gael TD Dr Liam Twomey accused the major political parties of ignoring rural Ireland during his General Election campaign in 2002.

The vilification of Sinn Féin illustrates the gulf between the political elite and ordinary working people, the party’s annual conference was told tonight.

Charlie McCreevy has come under fire from Fine Gael after the collapse of part of a ceiling at St Nessan's school in Mungret, Co Limerick.