Elections

In a letter to the Irish Times this morning, RTÉ Head of Broadcast Compliance Peter Feeney has pointed out that the 'tweet' read out referred to during RTÉ's Frontline Presidential debate was not "bogus". Bogus is the word as reported by the Irish Times yesterday.

In an interview with this morning's Irish Examiner, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness tells Shaun Connolly that he wants to see a United Ireland referendum "as early as 2016".

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan TD has this afternoon announced that the Evoting machines are formally for sale.

However he has acknowledged that no buyer may be found, and that the machines could actually be worthless.

Politics.ie has this evening obtained a copy of the letter from Independent Presidential Candidate Sean Gallagher where he "regretfully" resigns from the National Executive of Fianna Fail.

The resignation letter (which was reported on by the Sunday Business Post's Niamh Connolly back in August) was sent to the party's General Secretary Sean Dorgan and is dated January 5th.