For more than half an hour, Helen McEntee has been rigidly on message. Sitting in her office in Government Buildings, the Justice Minister refuses to be drawn in any meaningful way on her future political ambitions or whether the pressure she has come under in the last six months has exacted a personal toll on her.
Nearly three-quarters of the public do not think the TV licence represents value for money with strong support emerging for RTÉ to be funded directly from the Exchequer.
MORE than a third of people in Ireland would now consider voting for a party or candidate with strong anti-immigrant views as public concern about migration continues to rise.
Junior minister Josepha Madigan has received the backing of two ministerial colleagues to be the Fine Gael candidate for Dublin in June’s European election.