The Taoiseach has rejected further calls for the Russian ambassador to Ireland to be expelled.
Micheal Martin refused to bow from pressure opposition parties in the Dail on Wednesday, as Sinn Fein and Labour pressed the Government to expel Yury Filatov.
Both parties acknowledged there were "valid" reasons for keeping the ambassador in the country, but said they paled in the face of the horrors being perpetrated in Ukraine.
