MPs are investigating the fallout from a Court of Appeal ruling into tariff reductions in the botched Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.

Minister of State James Browne made the claim in a debate on a Social Democrats motion calling for economic and diplomatic sanctions on Israel.

The party has faced criticism in recent weeks after TD Chris Andrews took legal action against an Irish Times journalist.

The Wild Lights event runs until January.

The victim in the case was left with a fractured skull, broken teeth and facial fractures in the incident, the court heard

The Minister for Media said a unit would be set up within her department to oversee the allocation of funding for the broadcaster.

Former Lord Mayor of Drogheda Frank Godfrey has said the birds are wreaking havoc on the Co Louth town.

The incident occurred at Ballymaley on the outskirts of Ennis at around 10.30pm

A senior officer has appealed for information about the ‘reckless’ incident in Newry.

More than 12,000 households reached out to a charity last year over fears they would be made homeless

Around 35 to 40 Irish passport holders remain in the enclave.

The family is four kilometres from the border crossing at present. Mr Shaheen said he has a friend with a car who will drive them to the crossing. It was dangerous, “but we have to do it.”

It comes as Tánaiste Micheál Martin travels to Egypt where the Rafah crossing is located.

Wednesday's front pages focus on a range of stories from a salary cap of €250,000 being implemented for RTÉ's top earners to hopes Irish citizens in Gaza could leave by Wednesday. 

Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said Israel had a right to defend itself but its actions have escalated.

Sinn Fein brought a private members bill to Dail Eireann on Tuesday evening ‘in response to cries from Gaza’.

Another witness told the Dublin District Coroner’s Court jury how she began to pray after becoming trapped in the nightclub and was rescued by firemen at the moment she finished reciting the Lord's Prayer.

James Kilroy - who admits killing his wife at their rural Co Mayo home - had a long history of cannabis use and was regularly consuming the drug therapeutically in the three years leading up to her death

The island has been battered by heavy rain and flooding in recent weeks.

The new cap on salaries will mean that nobody at RTÉ can make more than its director general Kevin Bakhurst.