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The young protestors unfurled red banners with slogans including one reading “Nato wars millions dead” and chanted loudly “No to Nato.”

Several sources at the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting told the Irish Mirror that Wexford-based Senator Malcolm Byrne proposed putting a deputy leader in place. Tánaiste Micheál Martin was not at the meeting.

The Government will hold a number of consultative forums next week in Cork, Galway and Dublin about the future of Ireland’s neutrality.

The Department of Integration is currently examining the possibility of embracing tented accommodation within the grounds of the former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum to provide emergency shelter to international protection applicants

The Tánaiste was in flying form as he took a ride down the slide at Avondale Forest park in Wicklow

Sources told the Irish Mirror that there have been long-standing concerns about the security of the Kildare Street complex

Despite the fact that the Budget is not scheduled to take place until October, the row between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael looks set to continue this week

It comes days after in-fighting in the coalition after Fine Gael ministers wrote an opinion piece calling for €1,000 tax breaks for middle-income earners

There is also anger after Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar told the Dáil there will be pension increases as part of October’s Budget

Speaking under Dáil privilege, Tánaiste Micheál Martin said that he did not believe The Ditch was "independent media" as he accused them of launching political campaigns against the Government.