Now he was a de facto diplomat, and with the title ‘Delegate of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic’, was one of the first members of what would become the Irish diplomatic service.

POLITICIANS have been sent a report on bad language following an embarrassing Dail spat between Mary Lou McDonald and Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

after being re-elected to the National University of Ireland panel on the first count. The Seanad is located inside Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (the lower house).

Speaking to the media outside the Dáil, Micheál Martin described the scenes in the chamber as a "subversion of the Irish Constitution ... that the Dail has failed to elect a government ...