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After a night of torrential rain the river Roury broke its banks and also caused flooding in Rosscarbery earlier this week. Photograph: Andy Gibson
‘Our fear is we will be forgotten’: Flooding hits west Cork for second time this week

West Cork has been hit again for a second time this week with flooding and damaged roads after a night of torrential rain. Motorists are being asked t(...)

Senator Diarmuid Wilson (left) with Labour Party leader Alan Kelly. Mr Wilson is viewed as the frontrunner to be the next cathaoirleach of the Seanad. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Campaign begins for €114,130 Seanad cathaoirleach job

The campaign has begun for the €114,130 job of cathaoirleach of the Seanad. Fianna Fáil Senators Mark Daly and Diarmuid Wilson and outgoing chair Den(...)

Terence MacSwiney
Cork marks 100 years since Mac Curtain and MacSwiney elected Lord Mayors

Cork City Council honoured its martyred Lord Mayors, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney this week at a special meeting to mark the 100th anniversa(...)

Denis O’Donovan at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. Photograph: Cork Courts
Tusla worker jailed for possessing child pornography

A 35-year-old man who was working with the Child and Family Agency Tusla has been jailed for a year after admitting possession of more than 2,500 chil(...)

Leo Varadkar with Boris Johnson at Thornton Manor Hotel in Cheshire. Photograph: PA Wire
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael troops told to push back against Fianna Fáil swagger

Leo’s green and pleasant performance in Cheshire should boost flagging spirits in Fine Gael, where the mood is not as chipper as some would like it to(...)

Following two years of renovation work on the chamber, its gilded occupants were finally allowed back, leaving behind their temporary lodgings in the Ceramics Room of the National Museum where plumptious yellow-haired cherubs – the spit of Donald Trump – decorated the walls. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.
Miriam Lord: Lofty new chamber fails to inspire waffling Senators

The Seanad returned on Tuesday after the summer recess to a beautifully refurbished chamber. The Senators, neither refurbished nor reconstructed, ret(...)

A detective told the court the images were of the most serious Category 1 type.
Tusla employee had more than 2,000 child porn images on home computer

A 34-year-old man was found with over 2,000 child porn images at his home in Cork city while he was working for the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, a (...)

Former FAI CEO John Delaney pictured this week after a meeting with the board of the FAI. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
Miriam Lord: Healy-Rae’s Delaney devotion reaches fever pitch

The bunting will be out next Saturday in Castleisland for the official opening of the much-anticipated Georgie O’Callaghan Park. But will John Delane(...)

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD: “We will ensure that people in Northern Ireland will still have access to European Health Insurance Cards.” File Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Plebiscite on directly elected mayor for Dublin could be held in 2021 - Taoiseach

Dubliners will be asked in 2021 if they want to have a directly elected mayor depending on the outcome of a citizens’ assembly on the issue, Taoiseach(...)

Independent Senator Michael McDowell, leading opponent of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Government may attempt to guillotine judicial reform bill again

The Government might make another effort to guillotine one of the longest running legislation debates in Irish parliamentary history after narrowly fa(...)

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