Two-thirds of political and media advisers recruited by Government are paid more than €100,000The two most senior advisers earn between €185,000 and €195,000 a year, though both gift part of their salaries back to the StateSun Mar 17 2024 - 07:00
‘Political advisers are like poisoners: either famous or good at their job’A short history of political advisers in Ireland, from the early 1990s to todaySat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
The people behind the power: Who are Ireland’s political advisers and backroom experts?A large staff network oversees everything: communication, policy and smooth Coalition relationsSat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Is Ireland compassionately centre right or cautiously centre left? A lot hangs on the answerRelations across the cultural chasm in the Coalition have been deteriorating for months, with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ministers increasingly given to mutterings about their Green colleaguesSat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Political adviser pay is linked to pay of senior grades in the Civil ServiceMost advisers aren’t on highest levels of Civil Service pay and they have none of the job stability of a civil servantSat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Referendums’ defeat leads to divisions between Ministers over blame for failed campaign Coalition politicians turn fire on proposed hate crime law, saying new legislation should be abandonedTue Mar 12 2024 - 06:00
Paschal Donohoe’s prospect of International Monetary Fund top job slips away EU finance ministers are set to endorse the head of the International Monetary Fund, Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, for a second termMon Mar 11 2024 - 12:02
Amid all the finger-pointing, it’d be unwise to overlook central thrust of referendum resultsGovernments will likely be more cautious about making constitutional changes in futureSat Mar 09 2024 - 21:30
As the EU prepares for war, Ireland sticks its head in the sandIn fairness to us, we really have some neck. There is literally no end to our chutzpahSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:30
Growing anxiety in Government over results of referendums after voters stay home Just 25% of electorate had cast a ballot in Dublin city as of last nightSat Mar 09 2024 - 05:44
The most underwhelming referendum campaign since blasphemy has stuttered to its finaleYour essential end-of-week politics catch up and are pay rises for all on the cards for semi-state bosses?Fri Mar 08 2024 - 12:08
Accountant, HR specialist, film-maker: who Terence O’Rourke and the other new RTÉ board members areNew chairman is reputedly collaborative, approachable and ‘artsy’, but had to defend KPMG’s pre-crash audits of AIBWed Mar 06 2024 - 06:00
Siún Ní Raghallaigh challenges Minister’s version of events as new RTÉ chair appointedTerence O’Rourke set to chair board as row between predecessor and Catherine Martin deepensTue Mar 05 2024 - 06:00
Terence O’Rourke set to be named as new chair of RTÉ boardThree Coalition party leaders have approved suggestion of Catherine Martin to nominate the former KPMG managing partnerMon Mar 04 2024 - 21:03
Catherine Martin: RTÉ’s biggest champion in Cabinet is now at war with broadcaster’s leadershipMinister’s move to effectively sack RTÉ chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh on television escalated political aspect of crisisSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Ryan and Coveney in heated row over data centresSimon Coveney forcefully argued that Minister for the Environment’s proposal was not agreed Government policySat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Former HSE boss sounded out as new chair of RTÉ boardPaul Reid is one of a number of potential candidates understood to have been approachedSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
I’ve worked out when the general election is most likely to beTwo sets of political considerations will influence the decision: tactical and practical.Sat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Immigration top of the list of issues getting the attention of voters in the past monthContinuing prominence of immigration in Snapshot survey comes after moves to discourage both Ukrainian refugees and people seeking asylum from coming to IrelandMon Feb 26 2024 - 06:00
Is Ireland going in the right direction? Here’s what poll respondents said Latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A Snapshot poll asked respondents to comment on what in Ireland was going in the right direction or the wrong direction. Here are a selection of answersMon Feb 26 2024 - 06:00
‘You’d be out of your mind to go there’: How witnesses really feel about Oireachtas committeesMeetings have frequently been farcical. It’s ridiculous that two committees should jostle for attentionSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:30
RTÉ board members ‘furious, insulted and fed up’ over forced resignation of chair Row between broadcaster’s board and Catherine Martin over exit payouts for departing executives deepening following resignation of Siún Ní RaghallaighFri Feb 23 2024 - 21:40
Catherine Martin’s account of events contradicts that of RTÉ’s board. They can’t both be rightRTÉ board has dug in and is on a collision course with Minister for MediaFri Feb 23 2024 - 21:01
Dear God, will the RTÉ saga never end?Your essential end-of-week politics catch upFri Feb 23 2024 - 15:38
Row breaks out between two Oireachtas committees investigating RTÉFF’s Niamh Smyth says two committees covering the same topics at the same time had resulted in negative public commentaryThu Feb 22 2024 - 06:00
X, formerly Twitter, promises to abide by Irish hate speech lawsElon Musk previously promised to fund legal challenges to the law, which is yet to be passedWed Feb 21 2024 - 19:34
Recent RTÉ controversy is of Bakhurst’s own makingThe last thing Government wants is to have to find someone else to run RTÉTue Feb 20 2024 - 19:12
Ireland to back Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for second term Sinn Fein calls for veto on President of the European Commission over her support for IsraelTue Feb 20 2024 - 06:00
President leads tributes to ‘warm and engaging’ Irish Times journalist Michael O’Regan‘He was incredibly courteous, and a perfect judge of when an injection of humour was needed’Mon Feb 19 2024 - 13:37
Regina Doherty beats Josepha Madigan to get Fine Gael European election nominationFine Gael leader in Seanad aims to retain seat held by Frances Fitzgerald, who is retiring at next electionSun Feb 18 2024 - 21:31
Bakhurst called to meeting with Minister over exit payments to senior executivesRequest follows calls from Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Ministers for full transparency from broadcasterSun Feb 18 2024 - 20:15
Holly Cairns says Social Democrats in power would deliver 50,000 homes a yearParty leader says she will ‘talk to every party’ about a potential coalition after the next election but preferably, she says, without Fine Gael or Fianna FáilSun Feb 18 2024 - 16:08
After the Holly Cairns bounce, the Social Democrats must face up to three key questionsRecent polls are promising but the party has big decisions to make on three key questionsSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:00
Seven lessons for Leo Varadkar from the career of John BrutonDon't always take the advice of officials' and don't play into your opponents' hands - here's what the Taoiseach can learn from his predecessorSat Feb 10 2024 - 13:30
Poll: Majority want tighter immigration rules in IrelandIrish Times poll finds many concerns relate to pressure on public services and housing, and majority believe immigration on balance has been a positiveSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Nuanced views on immigration despite concern over levels of inflow, poll data showsSinn Féin supporters are consistently more hardline on immigration questions that the other parties and the general publicSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Voters back stronger support for Palestinians, but are divided on South Africa genocide caseLarge majority disagree with proposal to boycott traditional St Patrick’s Day visit to White HouseFri Feb 09 2024 - 07:00
Pat Leahy: 53% of voters know ‘hardly anything’ about March 8th referendumsAnalysis: A majority of voters say they will back the proposed changes, But the contest is likely to tightenFri Feb 09 2024 - 06:30
Irish voters prefer Biden to Trump, but many are unconvinced by both candidates Just a third of youngest Irish voters prefer the Irish-American incumbent - but over-65s show strong supportFri Feb 09 2024 - 06:00
Clear majority of voters intend to vote Yes in both referendums, poll showsMajority know little about the changes just three weeks before vote, with better-informed voters more likely to vote againstFri Feb 09 2024 - 06:00
Pat Leahy: Constrained by the prospect of governing, Sinn Féin is facing a strategic conundrumThe first Irish Times/Ipsos poll of 2024 sees Sinn Féin's support falls by six points to 28 per centThu Feb 08 2024 - 07:32
Sinn Féin support hits lowest level in three years, falling by six points, poll showsIrish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows party’s lead cut as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hold firm and smaller parties gainThu Feb 08 2024 - 06:00
Tributes flow for Bruton after a quarter century at frontline of politics Government Bruton led can reasonably claim to have played important roles in resolving the two great failures of the independent Irish StateWed Feb 07 2024 - 08:29
John Bruton’s leadership set template for how to run a coalition government Former taoiseach had a sense of obligation and service that was a deeply Christian part of being a Christian DemocratTue Feb 06 2024 - 20:45
Yes vote in referendums ‘champions rights’ for disabled people, single-parent families, carers, say campaignersRejection of move to change family and care articles of the Constitution would be ‘very painful’, say Yes campaignersTue Feb 06 2024 - 13:44
Is Mary Lou McDonald just goading unionists about a united Ireland ‘within touching distance’?There has always been a suspicion that Sinn Féin has never really wanted Northern Ireland to work, but there’s more to it than thatSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Brussels diary: ‘Budapest Boris’ fails to dent EU show of unityHungarian prime minister Viktor Orban caved in over EU support for Ukraine, leaving a trail of disgruntled leaders summoned to Brussels for the anticlimactic summitFri Feb 02 2024 - 19:00
Powersharing returns to NI as UK fast-tracks legislation to deliver on Stormont dealAssembly members will meet at 1pm on Saturday as DUP and UK government reach deal on post-Brexit arrangementsThu Feb 01 2024 - 19:35
EU leaders agree deal with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban to unblock €50bn in Ukraine aidHungarian leader had been sole objector among EU leaders over disbursements to KyivThu Feb 01 2024 - 18:41
EU-Latin America trade deal cannot be approved in current form, says VaradkarMercosur supporters had hoped for agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on deal after new environmental protections soughtThu Feb 01 2024 - 17:38
