SO it finally appears some senior Fine Gael members realise the battery in Enda Kenny is on the blink and rather than recharge the robotic leader the better option is to go for a newer, more life-like model.

A former police inspector was charged tonight with murdering an 80-year-old woman in the North more than two decades ago.

Six people escaped injury in a pipe bomb explosion at a flat in Northern Ireland, police said today.

Police in Belfast today launched a renewed drive against criminals in the south of the city.