Simon Coveney said employers will want to avoid large-scale redundancies because of the effects of the sweeping 20 per cent US tariffs.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said they have not yet had a ‘substantive’ response to their policy priorities outlined during formation talks.

The Taoiseach said he did not doubt the sincerity of the eight independents vying to be in government.

Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley has said that RTÉ GAA commentator Marty Morrissey was “unfairly and unnecessarily” pulled into the RTÉ pay controversy at the Oireachtas PAC meeting on Thursday

Mr Daly was first elected to the Dáil in 1973

The “opaqueness” of details from Wednesday’s Media Committee was disappointing, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.

An Irish MEP has highlighted the need to Ukraine in generating electricity as Russian missiles continue to target civilian infrastructure

Timmy Dooley said it would be ‘helpful’ if Robert Troy made a further statement to clarify details about the matter.

The former head of ESB International, Don Moore, said the energy crisis was highlighted last October and was nothing to do with the war in Ukraine