Fewer people trust gardaí than trust nurses and doctors while trust in the Government has fallen over the past year, according to a new report.

It suits those in power when you focus on Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne’s break-up over the fact that there are 3,826 children living in a sweatbox of a hotel room somewhere off the M50.

Last Sunday morning, I boarded an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to New York’s JFK airport.

Politicians have swept the victims' issue under the carpet, a teacher whose husband was badly injured in an IRA bombing said.

Public outcry has led to a promise that politicians salaries will be reduced and bonuses recently paid to ministers given to charity in Poland.

The taxpayer paid out close to €20m last year in pensions, lump sums, and other retirement benefits to former politicians.

Sinn Féin intransigence is preventing Northern Ireland politicians from dealing with growing problems in health, education and the economy, the Democratic Unionists have claimed.

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

As politicians don the hard hats to announce a slew of capital projects, Kyran Fitzgerald says we can learn from international research how not to repeat the notorious cost overruns of the past.

There was definitely a hint of regret for Pat O’Malley that she hadn’t been able to fulfil other ambitions, writes Victoria White.

Former politicians owe the State €42,300 as a result of overpayments to pensions.

Six left-wing TDs are facing potential Leinster House disciplinary action after breaking strict political emblem rules by wearing pro-choice "Repeal" t-shirts in the Dáil writes Irish Examiner Political Correspondent Fiachra O Cionnaith.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said politics is now “less respectful, reflective, inclusive and inspirational” than in the past, writes Irish Examiner political reporter Elaine Loughlin.

Dozens of previously high-profile politicians are waking up to the reality today that they are no longer TDs after a second successive general election saw a seismic shift in the Dáil landscape.

An eye-opener.

Candidates have faced questions about the 8th amendment on doorsteps this election.

Joan Burton has said it's important for politicians to listen to people - after Enda Kenny claimed there were a lot of 'whingers' in Castlebar.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for honesty and courage from politicians on how they deal with abortion issues.

A canvasser’s worst nightmare…

We are heading into the last week of the pre-election process, where our parties, groupings, and independents set out their wares in an effort to entice us to give them our vote on February 26.

With just weeks to go before the General Election the group representing carers is reminding politicians not to forget about them.

The Tanaiste has said it is important that politicians learn from the findings of the Banking Inquiry report.

For the first time in Ireland a Muslim community has invited politicians to a pre-election debate.

Politicians are being warned to ignore young voters at their peril.

The Public Expenditure Minister has said that he is legally barred from making any more cuts to politicians' pensions.

The ratio of virtuous to venal politicians at local level is probably no different to that ratio anywhere else on the political pyramid but by their very immediacy, by their in-your-face familiarity, their foibles are all the more easily seen and criticised.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance has called on householders on Cork’s northside to unite and resist the installation of water meters.

WHEN the planes went into the Twin Towers on 9/11, Brian Fagan realised it was time to hightail it out of Afghanistan.

Ted Neville (Letters, April 19) makes valid points in holding politicians responsible for the bank collapse.

Two items in particular caught my attention in your paper recently.

Because of changes to a number of Co Cork’s electoral areas, there will be casualties among big-name councillors, and they’re more likely to be from Fine Gael, writes Sean O’Riordan