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The Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan may yet be asked to answer questions in public about the O’Higgins Commission and the treatment of whistleblowers.
The Taoiseach is expected to announce his 11 nominees to the Seanad later today. The move will allow the upper house of the Oireachtas to sit for the first time next week.
“We’re just our age, we can’t turn that clock back”, said the grandfather of the child Tusla removed, after it was decided he and his wife were too old to provide adequate foster care.
Gardaí will conduct a national speed enforcement operation over the next 24 hours. National Slow Down Day will include more than 1,000 speed enforcement zones and road safety messages on social media.
Tesco workers and the company have agreed to return to talks today at the Workplace Relations Commission.
They arrived fashionably late but, once there, Star Wars actors Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley partied into the night at Foxy John’s in Dingle.
WORLD
All 19 people who were trapped in a Kentucky cave by rising water from heavy rains have escaped safely. Members of two tour groups spent several hours in Hidden River Cave in south-central Kentucky, and two police officers who tried to rescue them were also stranded at one point.
Four well-known "once-a-day" sunscreens are not living up to their claims, a watchdog in the UK has warned.
SPORT
Jose Mourinho is expected to finally be confirmed as Manchester United's new manager today after ironing out the terms of his contract.
Clare boss Davy Fitzgerald has revealed that exciting young defender Oisín O’Brien underwent emergency surgery on a punctured lung in an Austrian hospital earlier this month.
For Conor Murray, the thought of having to watch Connacht and Leinster duke it out in a Guinness Pro12 final this Saturday fills him with frustration.
BUSINESS
Coillte is to switch from a sale to a lease model with regard to non-core land assetsin a bid to generate recurring income.
The Dalata Hotel Group is negotiating the purchase of a further two-to-three development sites in Dublin.
ANALYSIS
The new Policing Authority has announced its arrival and wasted little time in heaping more pressure on a beleaguered Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, writes
LIFESTYLE
Medics disagree on whether time off work is the best way to deal with period pain, writes
We now expect the latest medical treatments for our pets. But what about the cost, asks
VIDEO
Jose Mourinho has returned to the Premier League with Man United and will be tasked with bringing the Red Devils back to their former glory. But is it the right move?
VIRAL
Anyone who’s ever studied art has probably been asked the question: “What is art?” Well, a group of friends decided to put the question to the test – by placing a pair of glasses on the floor in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Seventy DeLorean cars made famous by the Back To The Future movies have driven through Belfast, the city that built them, ahead of what has been hailed as the largest ever gathering of owners.
TECHNOW
Sony announced that the PlayStation 4 has hit 40 million sales since launch. Meanwhile, PS4 software sales have reached 270.9 million
There's a Mirror's Edge TV series in the works, which will - as you'd expect - follow the adventures of Faith.
While we've seen prototypes, the first truly flexible smartphone will be released in China later this year.
SHOWBIZ
Steven Spielberg urged graduates at one of America’s top universities to become heroes in a world “full of monsters”. The Hollywood director told students at Harvard University that he was bullied as a child for being Jewish and that racism, homophobia and religious hatred was still prevalent around the globe.
MOST READ RIGHT NOW
A man was ‘crucified’ by having his feet nailed onto the kitchen floor of a house where he was held captive, it was alleged yesterday at Limerick District Court.
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