Author: Angela Nurse

The Labour Party has secured seven seats in the Dail, ensuring its leader and TDs retain valuable speaking rights. After a marathon count which finished six days after polling day, Willie Penrose took one of the final seats in the election in the redrawn Longford-Westmeath constituency and guaranteed the party a precious public profile in… Continue reading Willie Penrose victory retains Dail speaking rights for Labour Party

Crunch talks have been agreed with the country’s top industrial relations mediators to prevent crippling Luas strikes on major public celebrations. Trade union chiefs at Siptu and operators of the tram network Transdev are to hold negotiations next week to prevent stoppages on St Patrick’s Day and Easter Sunday.

Tax justice campaigners have called for an overhaul of Britain’s corporation tax system, after Facebook announced voluntary changes which are likely to lead to the social media giant paying millions of pounds more to HM Revenue and Customs. From April, the company will end the practice of routing sales from major UK companies through Ireland,… Continue reading Call for corporation tax overhaul after Facebook 'transparency' vow

Fine Gael engaged in the most negative campaigning online during the election campaign, analysts have revealed. Adoreboard, a semantics research firm based at Queen’s University Belfast, scored Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s party highest for attacks on other parties and policies in the short-lived and relatively lacklustre battle for votes.

A man in his late 50s has died after being assaulted in Dublin. The victim was injured in an incident in Harold’s Cross Road at around 4am on Saturday morning.

Unions have vowed to keep picketing a Cadbury factory over fears further jobs will be outsourced. Talks between Siptu and Unite representatives and owners Mondelez Ireland will begin this morning after 17 positions at the Coolock factory were reassigned.

The getaway car used in the fatal shooting of the brother of a murdered Real IRA chief was stolen more than four months before the attack. Vincent Ryan, whose brother Alan was killed in a feud with drugs gangs in 2012, was gunned down on McKee Road in Finglas, north Dublin, on Monday afternoon.

Irish premier Enda Kenny has admitted it will be difficult to form a new government after a seismic split in the vote in last week’s general election. In his first public appearance since the result of the poll became apparent over the weekend, the Taoiseach conceded he will have to sit down with arch-enemies Fianna… Continue reading Kenny admits forming a new government 'will be difficult'

The chief suspect in the killing of Co Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson confessed to murdering a six-year-old girl, a witness told an inquest. Robert Howard claimed he served six years in prison for the murder, according to a neighbour. He alleged he was living in a caravan in Castlederg in the early 1990s because he… Continue reading Arlene Arkinson suspect 'confessed to killing child'

Fourteen men linked to an organised crime gang – some of whom have connections to County Limerick – have been convicted of plotting to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts worth up to £57 million (73 million euro) in a series of museum and auction house raids. A jury today convicted four of the gang’s… Continue reading Gang found guilty of 73m euro plot to steal rhino horn and artefacts