The 1926 individual census returns have been made searchable online for the first time.

Then attorney general Patrick Connolly, who would resign months later after a murderer was arrested in his home, argued against the idea.

The Israeli embassy in Dublin announced last year that it would close.

The divisive divorce referendum was held in 1995

Minister Pádraig Flynn was exercised by a range of security issues

Over three episodes, Hannon digs out previously undisturbed documents from the hundreds of thousands of records held at the National Archives before heading across the country to follow the trail of the stories behind them.

The leak was first flagged at the archives on Bishop Street, Dublin, on Wednesday morning.