Stamp prices are going up: An Post says a national stamp will cost €1.85 from February 3rd, with new rates for Europe and the rest of the world.

Mr Johnston says he will be taking up a new, non-diplomatic job in Dublin later this year.

12.7 per cent of overseas visitors came from the United States, with 6.4 per cent coming from Spain and Portugal.

A High Court judge has lambasted as “disgraceful” the need to send a 17-year-old girl to a specialist secure unit in Britain because there is no such place available for her in Ireland