’Very solid, very good progress’ made on Irish Water - Joan BurtonOnly progress report public wants is the abolition of water charges - Sinn FéinFri Nov 07 2014 - 01:00
Burton fails to confirm €200 water charges for family of fourOnly progress report people interested in is abolishment of Irish Water, says McDonaldThu Nov 06 2014 - 14:21
Trichet letters will allow witnesses to the banking inquiry to ‘speak more freely’Ireland took 43 per cent burden of Europe’s banking debt ‘without asking for write down’Thu Nov 06 2014 - 14:14
Taoiseach Enda Kenny plays down differences with Joan Burton on water chargesCSO and Eurostat will adjudicate on what Irish Water must charge to stay off booksThu Nov 06 2014 - 01:00
Collective bargaining legislation a ‘political whim’ for Labour’s CV, Fine Gael TD claims‘Governing on the basis of marking a commemoration to Jim Larkin is absurd’Thu Nov 06 2014 - 01:00
Kelly refuses to rule out vote on Irish Water ownershipGovernment loses vote in Seanad as Labour side with FF on privatisation referendumWed Nov 05 2014 - 17:58
Noonan does not rule out role for Revenue in collecting water chargesMinister for Finance says all options are being looked atWed Nov 05 2014 - 10:21
Dáil told of surge in home repossession cases before courtsIncrease in eviction cases ‘belies rhetoric’ that repossession of family home a last resortWed Nov 05 2014 - 06:39
‘Double Irish’ abolition aims to bring tax residency rules up to date, Minister saysNoonan makes no reference to Irish Water charges or tax credits in Finance Bill speechWed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00
No referendum on keeping Irish Water in public ownership, Taoiseach tells DáilAny party that favours privatisation should put it in its election manifesto, Kenny saysWed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00
Delay water bills until Government committee finds charges solution, says Jack WallIrish Water should offer redundancies for long-term savings, says Fergus O’DowdMon Nov 03 2014 - 07:04
Senior Coalition figures seek rethink on Irish WaterReferendum urged to copperfasten future status as a public utilityMon Nov 03 2014 - 07:03
Identity of Shrewsbury Road homeowner ‘irrelevant’ to redevelopment applicationProperty not registered, owner unknown: ‘So we don’t know if owner has consented’Sat Nov 01 2014 - 01:00
Food sector not trying to feed ‘hungry’ Africa but targeting middle-class markets of China and IndiaFarmers are the ‘managers of nature’, Macra conference on environmentalism toldMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:01
Macra told laws needed to stop cheap selling of vegetablesSome 80 per cent of Ireland’s fruit and vegetables are importedMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
Petrol-tampering case confirmed as State tests 48 stationsFinance Minister says new fuel marker will catch those adding kerosene to suppliesMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
Young farmers need to regain the ‘environmental clothes’, says MEPMairead McGuinness told the Macra na Feirme conference farmers are the ‘managers of nature’Sat Oct 25 2014 - 18:51
House Michael Collins occupied during Rising could be destroyedMinister rejects claim misleading information led to decision on Moore Street buildingsSat Oct 25 2014 - 12:53
Feargal Quinn prepares Bill to halt Irish Water PPS demandsSenator and former Superquinn boss says semi-State’s move is causing huge angerSat Oct 25 2014 - 06:26
Inclusion of media merger issues in patents legislation ‘odd’Intellectual property rights Bill provides legal certainty to pharma sector, says MinisterFri Oct 24 2014 - 01:00
Fianna Fáil says 71,543 medical cards removed in the last yearNew anti-hepatitis C drug could cure up to 200 people at risk of death in next two yearsFri Oct 24 2014 - 01:00
Cross-Border cattle rustling costing farmers tens of thousands, says TDMinister says 555 cattle reported stolen out of population of 6.9 million since January 2012Fri Oct 24 2014 - 01:00
No bonuses until Irish Water is ‘operational’, says TánaisteJoan Burton says system designed to ‘actually save money’ with no salary incrementsThu Oct 23 2014 - 17:24
Seanad motion urging recognition for state of Palestine agreed unanimouslyConcerns raised that Middle East debate in Leinster House always ’one-sided’Thu Oct 23 2014 - 12:22
Three adjournments, three suspensions before Ceann Comhairle pulls plug on DáilHeated row over inclusion of former FG members in technical groupThu Oct 23 2014 - 00:30
Dáil business abandoned as three Independent TDs suspendedSession earlier adjourned several times amid row over speaking rightsWed Oct 22 2014 - 18:07
Oireachtas Justice Committee may call in Cahill and AdamsTense exchanges over claims take place between Enda Kenny and Gerry Adams in DáilWed Oct 22 2014 - 01:04
Former minister will not give his PPS number to Irish WaterMinister expects ’seismic’ shift in new body’s response to publicWed Oct 22 2014 - 01:00
Fitzgerald introduces legislation to strengthen GSOCMinisters stresses that Bill will bring commissioner into scope for first timeWed Oct 22 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach ‘wouldn’t last five minutes’ if rape allegations case involved Fine GaelIf Cahill case goes to justice committee then so must all Garda malpractice claims - SFWed Oct 22 2014 - 01:00
Adams says Taoiseach and FF leader never asked for his version of eventsKenny tells Dáil he would not last five minutes if rape cover-up controversy happened to FGTue Oct 21 2014 - 21:14
Joan gets giggles – but Mary Lou could laugh lastBurton says Irish Water as big an undertaking as the creation of ESBFri Oct 17 2014 - 01:00
Water charges are ‘poll tax’, Independent Senator claimsBarrett says Irish Water failing and close to takeover by commissionerFri Oct 17 2014 - 01:00
HSE policy of dental treatment in Dundalk for Dublin patients good idea - VaradkarPatients have choice to move to another location where waiting lists shorterFri Oct 17 2014 - 01:00
TDs better off after budget, says HalliganIndependent says worker on €70,000 salary will be up €746 a yearThu Oct 16 2014 - 01:00
Defence White Paper draft ready before year end, says Coveney180 Defence Force recruits to be taken on within the next two monthsThu Oct 16 2014 - 01:00
€12m in funding for farm safety scheme in bid to cut accidents€14 million boost for the horse and greyhound sectorThu Oct 16 2014 - 01:00
Budget ‘all about using borrowed money to buy votes’Howlin never presented accurate health estimate in any of his three budgets, FF claimsWed Oct 15 2014 - 11:08
In at the deep end: TDs make maiden speeches on Budget dayThe people have ’risen’ against water charges and ’should not kneel down again’ - MurphyTue Oct 14 2014 - 21:32
Corporation tax certainty starting to crumble - FFIrish soccer team will show ‘a lot more resistance to German pressure’ than MinisterTue Oct 14 2014 - 18:20
Call for Ireland to join Austria in legal action against UK over nuclear plantIreland will consider implications of EU Commission decision ’carefully’ – VaradkarFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:01
O’Brien’s political links in meter contract influential, TD claimsHowlin ‘surprised at some of the assertions’ made by WallaceFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:00
Kenny rejects McNulty Seanad seat claimCandidacy only discussed in early September, spokesman saysFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:00
Tánaiste claims anti-water charge protestors intimidating housing estate residentsTD accuses gardaí of ’political policing’ against opponents of the taxFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:00
Water protesters ‘all have expensive phones’ - BurtonIndependent TD alleges ‘political policing’ against local people against the taxThu Oct 09 2014 - 15:59
Commission ‘doesn’t object to plain packaging on cigarettes’Sale of illegal cigarettes still deemed a growing concernThu Oct 09 2014 - 10:20
Kylie Minogue and Rihanna are Irish ‘musically speaking’Willie Penrose wants Irish radio stations to have an Irish music quotaWed Oct 08 2014 - 11:09
Heather Humphreys: McNulty appointed to Imma ‘on merit’Minister for Arts defends her role in the recent controversy during Seanad debateWed Oct 08 2014 - 06:40
Flanagan hopeful of North progressIntensive talks to break the political deadlock are expected to start within the next fortnightWed Oct 08 2014 - 01:00
Minister urged not to accept Meas nomination to RTÉ boardFionnuala Sheehan says she will have no connection with alcohol industry after NovemberMon Oct 06 2014 - 11:54
