Iraq's prime minister has vowed to bring rogue gunmen in the country to justice, after one prominent activist who survived an assassination attempt warned the armed groups were succeeding in silencing dissent.
In recalling the Dáil, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have made a rod for their own backs - and the opposition will not spare it. They can expect to be solidly thrashed, so why did they do it?
Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny refused a dinner invitation to the Station House Hotel from the Oireachtas Golf Society and was "very unhappy" about it going ahead.
Parents have been warned not to send their children to primary school with alcohol-based hand sanitisers.
Car-park clinics may have to be set up to help GPs cope with the rollout of the flu vaccine to all primary school pupils and younger children this autumn.
The UK's Express newspaper is reporting entirely accurately on Ireland, the EU and Phil Hogan. That's how bad things have got.
Young children are seen as so-called 'super spreaders' of flu and have been among the main winter sources of transmission within families where elderly or sick relatives may be most at risk from the infection.
