Partisan tensions boil over as Republican congressman disrupts hearing

Republican congressman Louie Gohmert repeatedly banged his desk in protest of former US deputy attorney general Donald Ayer exceeding his five-minute speaking time at a hearing into the politicisation of the US Department of Justice.

100 days of the Government

Political Editor of The Irish Times, Pat Leahy, reviews the beginning of Micheál Martin‘s second term as Taoiseach. Video: Dan Dennison


US and Ukraine sign minerals deal

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced the deal on X, saying it “signals the Trump Administration’s commitment to a free, sovereign, prosperous Ukraine."


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