Micheál Martin urged "all parties to exercise restraint and to work to avoid that outcome," in a statement issued on Saturday.

Harris said: "We are all absolutely appalled, sickened and disgusted at the depraved - and that word does not fully capture it - conduct we are seeing in some of the Epstein files

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

The Committee has written to the Israeli government asking it to lift a de facto travel ban on Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, so he can address the Robert Tressell Festival in Dublin on Saturday.

The clerk of the Dáil concluded that the Ceann Comhairle acted according to the rules and her powers

The issue attracted criticism after it emerged some Regional Independents wanted to form a technical group in the Dáil in order to get more speaking time

Marian Agrios was running for a seat on Louth County Council.