Fifty-three thousand homes, farms and businesses are without power across the country due to Storm Ashley

Simon Harris also called on Mary Lou McDonald to issue a direct and sincere apology to the teenager who received the messages from Niall Ó Donnghaile

The general election is looming larger than ever with the coalition leaders set to discuss a date in a meeting on Monday evening

The Dublin TD made the comments with the general election on the horizon, and is concerned with the amount of "good people" not entering politics due to online abuse.

The latest a poll could have been held was March next year

Sinn Féin has called on the national broadcaster to apologise for the comedian’s comment in the opening monologue of Friday’s Late Late Show

A Sinn Féin TD has criticised the suggestion that the Government should influence the nomination of the chair of the influential scrutiny committee

The Sinn Féin president told the Dáil last week that the young person who complained about inappropriate messages from Niall Ó Donnghaile was 17

Kerry, Leitrim, Sligo, Clare, Donegal, Mayo and Galway are under a status-orange warning until 8pm on Sunday.

The actor is running the Irish Life Dublin Marathon, with Emma Fogarty, who has the condition epidermolysis bullosa, joining him for the final 4km.

Gardaí have arrested a man after seizing drugs worth €360,000 during an operation in west Dublin

Taoiseach Simon Harris made the appointment after the 64-year-old’s shock decision to step down from the role and not stand in the general election.

The study analysed the cases of more than 5,000 men and women referred to the Galway University Hospital osteoporosis service.

Here are the stories making the headlines on Sunday's newspaper front pages.

The 21-year-old was beaten to death in a farm shed in Co Monaghan in October 2007.

The Fine Gael deputy leader is the latest senior figure in the party to step away from front line politics.

The scammers say that they are calling from a garda station and have a recovered phone they believed was stolen the night before

The warning covers seven counties on Sunday while a yellow wind warning will be in effect for the rest of the island of Ireland.

Sinn Féin is accusing RTÉ of electoral interference after comments made on The Late Late Show last night

Gardaí have seized fake Apple products worth €160,000 following searches in the west of Ireland