Confidential correspondence shows government had all but confirmed Nama chief Brendan McDonagh as its so-called housing tsar – while taoiseach Micheál Martin publicly denied any decision had been made.

The garda commissioner misled an Oireachtas committee about his knowledge of airlines illegally using Irish airspace to transport weapons to Israel.

On this day 29 years ago investigative journalist Veronica Guerin was driving on the Naas Road. As she waited at a red light a motorbike carrying two male passengers appeared next to her. They’d been tracking her after a court date about a speeding offence earlier that day.

There’s little enough enough to meaningfully separate how Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer with the knighthood and the Oxford law degree and the London townhouse, and Brian Nelson, the loyalist and arms importer and British state agent from the Shankill Road, view terror and its use.

One of Ireland’s state representatives in Egypt plays a crucial role in transporting goods in and out of Israel during its onslaught on Gaza.