Bernard Durkan

Covid, Brexit, rising energy costs and supply chain issues combined to put the squeeze on

Chief executive says sales have risen since start of unprecedented run of rollover jackpots

Lottery top prize has been capped at €19m since September with last win in June

Odds against 47 rollovers 1,500/1 but another more likely than picking the winning numbers

Calls for balls to be dropped is an entertaining distraction, but not a winning proposal

Taoiseach notes FG TD’s ‘tenacity’ to ensure it could be you – sooner, rather than later

Bernard Durkan speaking after biweekly draw rolled over on 46 separate occasions

Political divisions over institutional funds and State investment

A nasty ‘variant’ of Greed-09 has swooped through an entire housing estate in Kildare

Almost all donations to political parties above €1,500 were from elected representatives

Families need clarity on Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Chrismas, party meetings told

Gardaí now have the power to hunt down a new sub-class of cocktail sausage criminals

Catherine Murphy weighing up standing for position when Dáil convenes on Thursday

Less than a quarter of TDs in the 33rd Dail are women and the average age is 48.5

Kildare North – elected on the sixth count

Durkan elected on sixth count, Lawless deemed elected without reaching quota

Local election results suggest Green candidate will make life difficult for FF

Bernard Durkan said housing issues would pose a problem in the general election

Election fever simmers as politicians begin stockpiling ammunition – against each other

European pressure was applied to Ireland to change approach to asylum seekers on welfare

Delayed forum to be up and running by end of year following selection of 99 voters

FG’s Durkan wants Minister to extend list of outlawed organisations to major crime gangs

Government under pressure after defeat on vote over Defence Forces pay, conditions

Hospital manager tells Oireachtas committee units to be installed shortly

Psychiatric nurses’ union says it will join wave of strikes by nurses next month

Solidarity TD records Irish parliamentary first by producing thong during Dáil sitting

Meanwhile, Catherine Martin shows she has the Commons touch during historic speech

Chipmaker employs 4,900 here, most at flagship facility in Co Kildare

Fisheries patrol vessels do not have sufficient staff to board suspect ships, Dáil hears

Committee hears the European Commission raised no objection to plan

Niche market ‘seasonal’ as number of deer farms drops from 500 to ‘a small number’

Martin marched his party up and down hills, Kenny departed, Varadkar got the top job

Party had to stick with rigid position when committee members proposed radical change

Only two Citizens Assembly recommendations were rejected by TDs and Senators

Sinn Féin members abstain on recommendation to allow terminations up to 12 weeks without restriction

Two members say their positions on issue have changed since joining committee

Fine Gael TD Hildegarde Naughton confirms her support for Eighth Amendment proposal

Submission recommends GP-led service up to 12 weeks for terminations without reason

Members agree on holding referendum, but diverge on scrapping Eighth Amendment

Since 2013 just one woman lost an appeal of a decision refusing her an abortion