Justice minister Helen McEntee’s Fine Gael running mate Sharon Tolan won’t comment on allegations she made disputed claims to rezone land from tourism to residential – after she negotiated a payment from the developer to her own housing estate’s residents’ association.

A Fine Gael general election candidate sought to have a developer upgrade her home – which she shares with her Fine Gael TD husband – as part of her objection to six new houses.

Irish Bloc Berlin – as well as writers, activists, media and Irish-Palestinian solidarity groups – have addressed an open letter to the Irish and German states and European Union condemning Germany’s role in Israel's ongoing onslaught on Gaza.

Jo Jo Dullard’s family pleaded with a Fine Gael justice minister more than 25 years ago to help sanction a search of a farm sealed off by gardaí yesterday after the arrest of its owner – a deceased ex-Fine Gael politician’s son – on suspicion of Dullard’s murder.

Despite issuing a carefully worded statement on Friday pledging to stop delivering munitions to Israel, Dublin-based ASL used a subsidiary company – which it wholly owns – to transport dozens of the packages to the Israel Defense Forces over the weekend.