Three women have accused Aughinish Alumina’s Russian co-owner – Vladimir Putin’s one-time “favourite"; a man for whom three Fine Gael ministers lobbied the US – of paying them for sex when they were minors.

A United Airlines flight illegally transported four ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning.

Using Ireland's reliance on foreign direct investment, Israeli government officials and a US legal organisation coordinated to pressure the Irish government to drop the Occupied Territories Bill.

About two weeks ago in Tallaght a gang of young men brutally attacked a man from India as he walked down the street. Falsely accusing him of behaving inappropriately towards children, they ripped off his clothes and left him lying naked and bloodied on the pavement.

A Fianna Fáil junior minister, the head of the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee and the ceann comhairle met with a special representative of the Azerbaijani president last month in Leinster House – less than two years after the diplomat threatened genocide against ethnic Armenians.