An Garda Síochána says a criminal complaint against Leo Varackar alleging the taoiseach submitted three false statutory donation statements to SIPO has been referred to senior Dublin gardaí.

Leo Varadkar advised potential donors on how to get around legally permitted donation limits – telling them they could use their “spouse, children and parents”.

I always thought home was somewhere else and that one day I would leave this grey, wet shithole. The first school I went to in Dublin was called Warren Mount. When I was six, the name evoked rabbits burrowing it out the side of Clanbrassil Street.

Micheál Martin’s Department of Defence arranged a meeting between an Irish pro-military spending group and the European Defence Agency – and now refuses to say who attended.

I’ll say this about John Bruton: he got a fitting send-off.