In an interview with KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond this afternoon Ms Funchion said that control was a very serious issue in her relationship with Mr Tyrrell

Independent Michael McNamara, Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion and Fianna Fáil’s Cynthia Ní Mhurchú have been elected as MEPs in the final count in Ireland South

Kathleen Funchion got 61 per cent of transfers from her running mate Paul Gavan’s eliminated share.

‘We are extremely careful,’ returning officer Martin Harvey said on the fourth day of counting in Cork.

Sinn Féin TD Kathleen Funchion said that transfer votes will be ‘a key part’ of how the count plays out.

A survey for The Irish Times shows that Sinn Fein’s has fallen by six points, to 28 per cent since last September

A Sinn Féin TD has said comments from the party's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin, suggesting the Government's chief economist should be fired, were "totally wrong"