The hunger strike began in early November in protest at being held in custody while awaiting trial.

The arrest was made on Wednesday after a complaint was made.

More than 200 runners held Palestine flags and shouted ‘Free Palestine’ as they ran through the rain in the Phoenix Park.

The Fianna Fail leader has not yet received a report reviewing the party’s approach to the presidential election, a statement said.

Patrick O’Donovan said that allowing children to view ‘heinous’ material online was the public health issue of our generation.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said hate and misinformation was being spread through communities by these algorithms.

‘If another country had kidnapped Irish citizens, what would we have done?’ the committee was asked.

Irish justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said that it was part of a ‘coordinated threat’ but would not say that it was a state-sponsored incident.

A murder investigation has been launched after the deaths of a woman and a child at a house on Castleview Park in Edenderry.

The victims have been named as four-year-old Tadhg Farrell and Mary Holt, aged 60.

Children’s Minister Normal Foley said that she had confidence in Tusla.

Irish premier Micheal Martin told the Ukrainian leader that Ireland would support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’.

The Ukrainian president has made his first official visit to the country, meeting the Taoiseach and Irish president separately in Dublin.

The Irish Government has announced 100 million euro in non-lethal aid for Ukraine.

Mr Zelensky and Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska were greeted on the tarmac at Dublin Airport by Irish premier Micheal Martin.

He will attend the inauguration of the Ireland-Ukraine Economic Forum.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) issued the warning a week after Mr Harris became Finance Minister.

Helen McEntee said further work was still needed to end the conflict with Russia.

Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funerals of Alan McCluskey in Co Meath, and Dylan Commins in Co Louth.

Alan McCluskey, 23, was one of the five young people who died in a car crash in Co Louth at the weekend.