Fianna Fáil minister of state Niall Collins is to be called as witness in a High Court case – in which he will be asked to account for his alleged intervention in a planning dispute because of a senior party official’s involvement.

A Fine Gael senator failed to register her rental property with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).

Twenty years ago then taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil that after the 11 September attacks, “The world had entered into a new and dangerous era."

Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue was among a group of directors who resigned from the board of a Donegal radio station days after it received a letter from a state body alleging serious financial fraud.

A Social Democrats Dublin City councillor has been letting a converted home gym as a granny flat despite not having planning permission to do so.