Don’t-Turn-Up Thursdays all the rageThe Ceann Comhairle is unhappy about disregard shown to voters and the DáilFri Jun 27 2014 - 01:00
Minister rejects Feargal Quinn Bill to reform VHI and ‘cut the apron strings’Dr James Reilly says State health insurer does not get preferential treatmentThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach to contact employment rights body about row at GreyhoundIndependent TD claims practices at company like an episode of ‘The Sopranos’Thu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Health Minister says cigarette smuggling will be ‘extremely difficult’ with plain packagingJames Reilly says 13 % of cigarette trade illegal but only 1 % of those are counterfeitWed Jun 25 2014 - 01:00
Ó Cuív says representations for manslaughter prisoner ’reasonable and proportionate’FF TD not writing letters for votes as prison missives ‘likely to lose you votes’Mon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00
Resources not an issue in mental health service, Lynch insistsNine psychiatrists withdraw confidence in Carlow/Kilkenny/South Tipperary serviceMon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00
Brewing industry has lost €40m with 400,000 kegs stolenGovernment rejects Bill to regulate scrap metal industry for second time in two yearsSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:08
Dáil votes to renew anti-terrorism legislation introduced after OmaghFitzgerald says 68 murders linked to organised crime since 2009Fri Jun 20 2014 - 01:08
Quinn presents legislation to radically reform health insurance sectorSenator says his Bill also clarifies VHI’s regulatory statusFri Jun 20 2014 - 01:05
Costs for mother and baby home inquiry must not come ‘from children who are alive’Government gets F grade for treatment of migrant children in direct provisionFri Jun 20 2014 - 01:04
Dáil to debate Bill on regulation of scrap metalLegislative proposal follows high-profile robberies of metal from railway tracks and buildingsThu Jun 19 2014 - 21:46
Minister says Army has no responsibility for searching foreign aircraft at ShannonTD claims US jet used in rendition flights seen at Shannon, hoping to pick up SnowdenThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:05
Defence officials to meet family of soldier killed in 1981 Lebanon attack on UN postMinister says department wants ‘clear understanding’ of family’s concernsThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:02
Restoring 13,300 discretionary medical cards will cost €13m, Taoiseach tells DáilKenny apologises for ‘great stress’ caused to many people in HSE reviewWed Jun 18 2014 - 22:48
Minister hits out at description of GAA as ‘Grab All Association’Independent TD Clare Daly asks how much organisation pays to rent former barracksWed Jun 18 2014 - 16:32
Government warned over lack of regulations around Moore Street 1916 monumentIndependent TD says Moore Street’s architectural heritage is not being protecedWed Jun 18 2014 - 01:05
Minister for Justice offers to meet local community over shooting of six-year-oldFrances Fitzgerald says the Garda will do ‘everything possible’ to support the community and ensure justice is doneWed Jun 18 2014 - 01:00
Bill to remove ‘nakedly political’ top ranking Garda appointments rejectedMinister says legislation ignores role of forthcoming independent Garda authorityWed Jun 18 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach says restoring medical cards will cost €13 millionEnda Kenny says he is ‘very sorry’ for stress caused in many cases where cards were withdrawnTue Jun 17 2014 - 18:07
Single visa will allow travel for Chinese, Indian visitors to Ireland and BritainNew visa scheme to start in autumn expected to increase tourismTue Jun 17 2014 - 01:00
Cyclist seriously injured in collision with car in Dublin32-year-old driver arrested in connection with the incident in Tallaght this afternoonSun Jun 15 2014 - 20:41
Emergency legislation needed to stop senior executives’ top-up paymentsGovernment swift with legislation to ‘drastically cut’ wages of low paid public servantsFri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
Seanad leader contradicts Tánaiste’s claim of parliamentary ‘stroke’ by OppositionMaurice Cummins says selection of two non-Government Senators a ‘democratic decision’Fri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
Council of Europe says AG should address Oireachtas every year on case lawIreland needs to ratify seven European conventions including on child sexual abuseFri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
Government accused of ‘skulduggery’ over banking committeeLabour whip forced to withdraw claim that selection committee was ‘ambushed’Thu Jun 12 2014 - 13:53
Government adds two members to banking inquiry committeeAlex White says move is kind of behaviour that ‘gives politics a bad name’Thu Jun 12 2014 - 13:17
Kenny accused of ‘tampering’ in committee rowFine Gael urges Fianna Fáil to ‘rest easy’ and matter would be resolved ‘in due course’Thu Jun 12 2014 - 01:14
Taoiseach rejects claims he lied about CallinanHeated Dáil exchanges over White’s claim Kenny sacked former Garda commissionerThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:07
Only 20% of Minister’s 311 board appointments used the public advertising processBill to stop payments to board members rejected by GovernmentThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:05
Taoiseach defends appointment of privatisation advocate to top public postSF claims ‘clear conflict of interest’ in appointment to West/Northwest Hospital groupThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:02
Taoiseach rejects claims he lied about Callinan departureHeated exchanges in Dáil over White’s assertion Kenny sacked Garda commissionerWed Jun 11 2014 - 13:35
Coalition majority on bank inquiry needed, says KennyMartin says Taoiseach undermining impartiality of committeeWed Jun 11 2014 - 01:00
Babies scandal ‘an abomination’, says KennyCommission of investigation will look at all mother and baby homes including BethanyWed Jun 11 2014 - 01:00
Government ‘must have majority on banking inquiry’Dáil suspended in heated row over membership of committeeTue Jun 10 2014 - 17:58
Taoiseach says Bethany home will be part of inquiryTreatment of Mná na hÉireann and their babies an ‘abomination’, Kenny saysTue Jun 10 2014 - 17:47
Patronage key to judicial appointments, claims Shane RossFine Gael appoints as judges those who have served party well over the years, claims TDFri Jun 06 2014 - 21:03
Dublin ‘the most expensive location in Europe in which to be buried’A ‘premium space’ in Glasnevin cemetery costs up to €20,000 while plot in Offaly costs €400Fri Jun 06 2014 - 14:57
Seanad row over unexpected majority for Opposition on banking inquirySenator claims then withdraws allegation Mac Sharry ‘might have’ conflict of interestFri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Howlin says he has ‘full confidence’ in Reilly amid medical cards rowDara Calleary claims Health Minister is blaming Minister for Public ExpenditureFri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Medical card proposals within two weeks, Minister for Finance tells DáilUnclear if legislation necessary to restore medical cards to those lost in reviewThu Jun 05 2014 - 01:40
Review of discretionary medical cards halted, say Alex WhiteNew card system to be developed on medical circumstancesFri May 30 2014 - 01:00
No pay for State board members under new legislationGovernment expected to support the Bill introduced by Independent Senator Feargal QuinnFri May 30 2014 - 01:00
NI Secretary of State, Justice Minister ’escalating dissident activity’ - Dáil claimThreats to prisoner officers from ’enemies of the peace process’ must stop - TánaisteThu May 29 2014 - 09:13
James Reilly asked to answer questions about withdrawal of discretionary medical cardsSeanad leader Maurice Cummins said the Minister had pledged to deal with the issueThu May 29 2014 - 01:00
Minister urges Aer Lingus cabin crew not to strike tomorrowIndependent TD Daly claims dispute not about rosters but ‘breaking the union’Thu May 29 2014 - 01:00
McFadden takes Dáil seat as newly elected Longford-Westmeath TDWelcome for two female byelection winners and expectation of more women than men as MEPsThu May 29 2014 - 01:00
New Fine Gael TD Gabrielle McFadden takes her Dáil seatWelcome that byelection winners are women and that more women than men as MEPsWed May 28 2014 - 13:06
’Put women on the ballot paper and they get elected’ - advice to political partiesDun Laoghaire best council for women; Donegal, Carlow, Longford, Clare worstWed May 28 2014 - 06:32
Ruth Coppinger TD welcomed to DáilNew Dublin West TD will be joined today by Longford-Westmeath TD Gabrielle McFaddenWed May 28 2014 - 01:43
Election results slowest in Europe: ‘The process is wrong’Seanad leaders call for changes to electoral systemWed May 28 2014 - 01:39
