LOOKING BACK OVER 2025, Mary Lou McDonald describes it as an “interesting and eventful” year. Politically, she says she knew that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael being back in government would be “bad news” ...

Speculation is rife in Dublin’s North inner city that veteran crime boss Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch will run in the upcoming by-election. Hutch (62), who was recently made aware of an E800,000 Criminal ...