Lobbyists for international arms manufacturers offered to introduce Irish businesses to a defence conglomerate accused of using an Israeli middleman to evade sanctions on Azerbaijan.

The state of Israel was in “constant contact” with a Fine Gael councillor to help him defeat a county council motion calling for an Irish government boycott of Israeli military equipment.

Irish state-backed Analog Devices International is sending parts from its Limerick factory to the Israel Defense Forces' largest weapons supplier.

Jordan Devlin’s friends and family say he’s locked in his cell 23 hours a day, strip-searched by prison authorities twice every 24 hours and isn’t allowed to speak with his loved ones.

For the sake of provocation I’ll say no one wearing the Irish number 10 shirt has synthesised all that makes rugby beautiful like David Humphreys did against the All Blacks in Lansdowne Road in 2001.