In contract discussions, Sean Sweeney asked as well if he could be paid a car allowance instead of being provided with use of an electric vehicle.

The walkout follows similar action that took place in October 2022, when thousands of college students walked out of lecture halls to bring attention to both the student accommodation and the cost-of-living crisis.

It comes after former Lord Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile quit Sinn Fein after allegedly sending inappropriate texts to a teenager.

The responsibility for calling a general election falls to the Taoiseach.

The bank is warning its customers that if they get a call from someone who asks them to go to a website or to click on a link that they send, to just hang up.

University Hospital Limerick has the most patients waiting on beds at 79. 32 of these are in the emergency department and 47 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

The implementation of safe zones will mean that protestors must keep a distance of 100 metres.

A man in his 30s was rushed to Letterkenny University Hospital after he was set upon with a weapon.

Minister for European Affairs Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said "It's really important because the age of children participating in any sort of consent is different in Northern Ireland and in Ireland."

Officers named the 23-month-old victim as Tavia Michella Ximenes Da Costa.

Taoiseach Simon Harris was criticised for "inaction" over calling the next general election in messages from the public, despite claims that the public don't care about the timing of the poll

Simon Harris is in Brussels for a meeting of the European Council.

Gavin Robinson said his party would continue to ask questions of Sinn Féin

Fashion retail giant Mango has secured the green light for a new flagship store on Dublin’s Grafton Street

Micheál Martin has repeatedly said previously he would prefer an election in 2025

A warning has been issued in relation to unauthorised labels on some defibrillator pads supplied to the Irish market which display an incorrect expiry date

A woman, aged in her late 30s, is in critical condition in hospital following a two-vehicle collision in Cork city on Wednesday morning

Brendan Mullin (60) of Stillorgan Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, denies all 15 charges, which are alleged to have occurred between July 2011 and March 2013

Diarmuid Phelan said he reached for his Smith & Wesson revolver in his pocket and fired in the air over their heads but was "stunned when one man went down", the court heard.

The 23-month-old victim was named by police as Tavia Michella Ximenes Da Costa.