Daniel McConnell: Why Fianna Fáil are bringing Bertie back in from the cold

Bertie Ahern’s appearance at a Fianna Fáil event was seen as an “open act of defiance” against the Taoiseach and party leader Micheál Martin, who had repeatedly refused to consider Mr Ahern’s readmittance to the party, but now seems open to it.

Mourners at the funeral of former Judge Fergus Flood in Sutton this week heard that he was a powerful advocate for justice and the rule of law.

Dead at the age of 94, Flood is most famous for his role as chairman of the Flood Tribunal (later the Mahon Tribunal) into allegations of corrupt payments by developers to politicians in the 1990s.