Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has attempted to frame budget 2018 as a financial plan focussed on protecting hard-pressed households, acting to tackle the housing crisis and to create new defences from the Brexit fallout.

Alan Shatter says Shane Ross's politics is "contaminating" Fine Gael.

Maternity leave is being extended for mothers whose babies are born prematurely.

Maternity leave is being extended for mothers whose babies are born prematurely. The Government decision will be announced today and is expected to benefit over 4,500 mothers annually.

The publication of the interim report into the reopening of garda stations confirms a "firm recommendation" was made to re-open Stepaside Garda station.

Questions about the Government decision to reopen Stepaside Garda Station in south Dublin have again been raised, amid fresh claims that the move was a political stroke, delivered by Transport Minister Shane Ross for his constituency.

Only around half of the 138 garda stations closed during the recession were considered to be in a position to be reopened in a special report to be presented to the Government.

Yesterday’s hearing at the Public Accounts Committee should set off alarm bells for anybody interested in policing, writes Michael Clifford.

You cannot purport to be a modern leader, like Macron, and not prioritise women at cabinet, writes Alison O’Connor

Hero garda Ciaran Jones was honoured yesterday when the bridge where he lost his life saving others was renamed after him.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has led tributes to the young garda and a woman who lost their lives during the flash floods that wreaked havoc across the east of Ireland.

GAA and Garda chiefs heaped praise yesterday on a courageous young garda who died after he placed the safety of others over his own.

Two men have appeared in court in Dublin this morning charged with assault, causing harm to another man in Dublin's City Centre on Friday night.

A retired Securicor supervisor has revealed that someone who knew the company’s ATM runs could work out the amount of money in a van by studying the "trip sheet".

A major investigation was underway today after a family was kidnapped and held hostage overnight by an armed gang of robbers in Dublin.