TDs and other elected representatives across the country have given a mix of recommendations and complaints to the boundary commission ahead of proposed constituency changes this year.

Adele King, better known as Twink, hopes to be able to resume full monthly mortgage repayments on her home which is under threat of repossession by a bank, a judge was told yesterday.

Attending a pre-marriage course is a must if you’re walking down a church aisle, but what

A 16 year old who has been left profoundly deaf after a tragic accident as a baby when the family car rolled along the driveway and crushed her carry cot against the house has settled her High Court action for €1m.

Today, in Portlaoise, former Tipperary coach Paudie O’Neill will have divided loyalties, part of his heart lying with both Clonmel Commercials and Ballyboden St Enda’s. As always, he’ll see the big picture, the health of the game. As he must in his role as chairman of the Hurling Development Committee.

Who is Don Byrne? A Dublin man has taken to social media to answer this question and further his search for his father’s family.

Not many people would claim to feel lucky after being stabbed multiple times and yet Dublin’s Jonny Cooper has no doubt he was fortunate not to have suffered a worse fate when he was attacked in a late-night incident just over a year ago.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by the trustees of a non-denominational church — the Victory Christian Fellowship against a High Court ruling that Bank of Scotland was entitled to appoint a joint receiver over three of its properties.

Sinn Féin have attacked the Government following reports that a patient had to wait for more than three hours for an ambulance last night.

Gardaí have been able to identify two men for an attempted gangland murder after DNA samples were recovered from airbags in their car.

Ian Madigan, Cian Healy and more of their Leinster teammates made Christmas come early for 30 children from three Irish charities today.

A relationship with a troubled teenage girl and the subsequent accusation of sex assault — of which he was cleared — has left a priest with a battle on his hands, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with an alleged serious sexual assault in south Dublin.

By Cóilín Duffy

Singer and actress Twink - real name Adele King - has issued an emotional appeal for the return of one of her dogs, whom she believes was stolen.

The conferring on rugby player Brian O’Driscoll with the Freedom of the City of Dublin may be trendy and populist but I believe it is not in keeping with the spirit of this coveted honour.

A man has been jailed for six years after he tied a 14-year-old boy to a radiator, threw boiling water down his trousers, and removed skin from his knees, knuckles, and fingertips with a cheese grater.

A man has been jailed for six years after he tied a 14-year-old boy to a radiator, threw boiling water down his trousers and removed skin from his knees, knuckles and fingertips with a cheese grater.

In agreeing to implement one of the principal recommendations of Mr Justice Quirke’s Magdalene report that all lump sum payments to survivors of the Magdalene laundries be exempt from tax, Finance Minister Michael Noonan, in the course of Budget 2014, has made a virtue of doing what is right and moral.

A youth stole a €35,000 BMW during a letterbox fishing burglary at a house in south co Dublin, a court was told yesterday.

Obituaries and eulogies in tribute to the life of the Nobel laureate, the poet Seamus Heaney, were as generous as they were deserving.

In what is yet a further effort to undermine and muddy the narrative of Irish history by conferring a bogus respectability on the actions of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries during the Irish War of Independence, former garda Gerry Lovett has organised a church service for those RIC members killed opposing Irish independence.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have become the parents of a baby boy. He will never know poverty, will receive the best of care, attention and education, and live a life of inherited wealth and privilege. This wealth and privilege will be handed down to his successors.

With winterish temperatures persisting at night orders of home heating oil and coal are continuing long after they normally would.

New teachers are infuriated that Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has ordered a clampdown on employment rights on school building sites while some of them are owed thousands of euro in back pay by his department.

On Friday, Mar 29, graves and headstones in St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork were vandalised. Graffiti was daubed on some headstones.

If the apology proffered by an Taoiseach Enda Kenny on behalf of the government and state to the Magdalene women is one of genuine substance and compassion and not empty rhetoric for public consumption, then all victims, including those survivors of the Protestant-run Bethany Homes, Westbank and St Mary’s in Summer Hill must be part of that apology and be included in the redress scheme.

The possible involvement of the BNP and other far-right groups in the Union flag issue in the North is sinister.

To give the Irish people a sense of how loyalists feel at the decision of Belfast City Council to restrict the flying of the Union flag on City Hall to 17 designated days a year, loyalist activist Willie Frazer, in a planned protest by a group of about 150 loyalists due to take place outside Leinster House on Saturday next, will be asking for the Tricolour to be taken down.

Unlike Derek Leinster, (letters, Dec 14), I am not a product of the Bethany Home but I nonetheless feel outraged at the treatment these children received and a sense of anger at my powerlessness.

The family of Jean McConville, the Belfast mother of 10 who was abducted and murdered in 1972, and whose body was discovered on a beach in County Louth in 2003, have suffered extensively over the years. It has been suggested that Ms McConville was killed for passing information to the British army.

Speaking in the wake of the children’s referendum, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Government will respond “positively and wholeheartedly” and match the new legislation with appropriate action.

The Government grant of almost €750,000 to the Orange Order to enable them to erect interpretative centres and museums in Belfast and Armagh should be withdrawn.

Alex White’s legal and media experience should prove beneficial in his new portfolio in Health, writes Juno McEnroe

I must admit to having been unaware of the upcoming charity fundraising event at the K Club to raise funds for the Jack and Jill Foundation, a most worthy cause, until I read the letter from Peter Mulvany (Irish Examiner, Sept 14).

Derek Leinster (Letters, Jul 28) rightly expresses his disdain of those in government who remain equivocal on cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

By any standards, the decision of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeal to order Boston College to hand over recordings of taped interviews with dozens of former IRA and UVF members, which were conducted on the basis of confidentiality, is bizarre and has significant implications for future academic and journalistic research (US tapes ‘may implicate IRA chiefs’ Irish Examiner, Jul 7).

Some €115m will be invested in up to 20 new primary care centres.

The Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, has announced that his department plans to recruit more than 270 new staff to work in Primary Care.

Three men are due before Dublin District Court this morning over an attempted robbery in Knocklyon on Thursday.

Four people remain in Garda custody this morning following their arrests in relation to 'cash-in-transit' van robberies.

Following the meeting of the board of RTÉ with Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte on the libelling of Father Kevin Reynolds in the Mission to Prey programme, it has emerged that no resignations from the board were sought or offered.