A pro-life Fianna Fáil TD has warned similarly minded colleagues intent on blocking the planned post-eighth amendment abortion laws to back down and accept "the will of the people" in the divisive debate.

Fianna Fáil frontbencher Willie O Dea has failed to say if he would welcome controversial former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern back into the party.

The €208,000 spend by the Department of Social Protection on new signage for its Intreo centres came under fire yesterday.