Former Fine Gael TD says he is ‘gobsmacked’ by turnout at public meeting in south Dublin calling for end of ‘State-sponsored grave robbery’

Plus: Alan Shatter seeks to protect the inheritance; a campaign for a Colm Meaney statue in Killarney; and Clare Daly’s political future

At students protests in Ireland, the UK and the US, politicians are rightly being confronted with a wall of blankness and silence

Social Democrats source says Orli Degani‘s candidacy became ‘unsustainable’ after she objected to the use of the Palestinian flag at party events

Late Taoiseach wondered why the Irish reaction to a challenge to the consensus was to look for ulterior motives

Former Fine Gael politician Alan Shatter says there is an ‘incapacity’ by the Government and media to understand the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Irish politicians had no right to lecture Israel about how it went about protecting its citizens from Hamas rockets, says Alan Shatter

Judges’ personal aides see a lot: verbal attacks, judgments flung across rooms, and occasionally ‘very violent’ incidents

Committee hearings into RTÉ payments controversy provided stark contrast between top performers and those who scaled soaring heights of incoherence

Almost 4,000 new Irish citizens will attend four ceremonies in Killarney over the next two days

Rite & Reason: Surely the very act of swearing an insincere oath to a god you don’t believe in flies in the face of the integrity of the office being assumed?

Minister is getting a chance Fine Gael denied Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Phil Hogan

Gerard Howlin: The ex-minister was badly treated by a political system that still won’t say sorry

Amnesty’s description of Israel’s behaviour and treatment rejected by ex-minister

World’s democracies cannot give arms and aid and then just watch the slaughter

Allegations against former garda commissioner have been dismissed by tribunal

Government clear on Israel’s responsibility under international law, Coveney says

Commemoration for IRA volunteer featured the famous Clonakilty breakfast product

Covid patient Joe McCarron encouraged to leave against medical advice and later died

‘The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy’ part 2 concludes the community averted its gaze