Irish Hospice Foundation calls for restoration of bereavement grant in pre-budget submission

Royals delight in horse diets, Taoiseach goes for cycle and RTÉ pol corr shows how to exit

Cabinet figures are to gather for exquisitely timed nuptials of former senator Eugene Regan

Varadkar and Coveney have private meeting as fighting breaks out in the Fine Gael ranks

Enda finds his va-va-voom, O’Brien sues nobody and Boyd-Barrett is incandescent

The best thing about the annual switching on of the Oireachtas Christmas tree lights is the awkwardness

First minister says Scotland is exploring options that would respect people’s Brexit vote

FG members claim the Seanad was not given the chance to buy final tickets

Independent Marie-Louise O’Donnell says the idea is ‘absolutely outrageous’

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement launches inquiry into charity

Powers delayed until September 5th to allow recruitment of more staff for regulator

Senator loses out to Marie-Louise O’Donnell as leader of Seanad Independent group

Party members were unaware that three choices would be made by Micheál Martin

Pieta House founder says she will represent sufferers ‘with every fibre of being’ in new Seanad

Tension for Labour, old dreams for Fine Gael and a sweet tweet from Lynn Boylan

Labour leader downplays data, saying ‘perception’ rooted in aftermath of crash

Evidence of vulnerability and anxiety due to debt, reduced benefits and financial uncertainty

Senator eats McGrath alive over his ‘outrageous’ behaviour in Oireachtas restaurant

Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell tell that Seanad that post offices are the ‘real’ bank

Gerard Craughwell twice applied to group of five Independents and was twice rebuffed

Anything that eases strain for students is worth it, say guidance councillors

Number in universities and institutes of technology set to grow by 30 per cent

Heated exchanges in Seanad debate on proposed fatal foetal abnormality Bill

Review: A good year for Ryan Tubridy, Pat Kenny and Sean O’Rourke. But where are all the women presenters?

Senator Mary Ann O’Brien says services will be targeted by Russians and Chinese

Government Senators are now in a minority in the 60-seat upper chamber

Journalist of the Year award to Mick Clifford for coverage of Gardaí and Justice Affairs

Varadkar warns of higher bills in January if concessions and lower charges not agreed

FF Senator says water charges a ‘debacle’

Opinion: The genie was well out of the bottle before the concession by Kenny that the Seanad seat targeted for a thoroughly humiliated John McNulty ‘should not be accepted in those circumstances’

Marie-Louise O’Donnell had accused Bank of Ireland of ‘financial thuggery’

Banks accused of ‘immoral’ behaviour of hiking up interest rates

Review: While Sean O’Rourke, on RTÉ, and Pat Kenny, on Newstalk, get stuck in at the National Ploughing Championships, ‘Breakfast Republic’, on 2FM, tries a different furrow

Tea, talk, carpentry and gardening: good for mental health and confidence

Frances Fitzgerald tells Seanad such contests ‘run counter to’ values in UN Convention on Rights of the Child

Senators table motion to ban contests as organisers aim to hold more competitions

RTÉ should have clarified comment about sympathies in churches

RTÉ celebrates country music with abandon but approaches the homophobia controversy with caution

Marie-Louise O’Donnell said there were 10 reports between 1937 and 2004

Joint bid ahead of €300m industry estimates for new licence but short of €500m touted in political circles