Dáil Éireann

Presidential election race to step up a gear as Mairéad McGuinness expected to declare

Dáil Public Accounts Committee expected to question agency over legal cases and protected disclosure

At the Irish embassy bash in London, guests were focused on the all-consuming question of who will enter the race for the Áras

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: The budget will not be a giveaway - whether there is an EU-Trump deal or trade war

Groups due to benefit from funds asked to reapply with no guarantee they will receive grant

Scheme would publicise details of people found guilty of sexual and domestic violence

Both tariffs and the Occupied Territories Bill make the main news stories this morning

Proposed increase in personal injury awards has been divisive, yet Micheál Martin took probing question in his stride

Thirty organisations including RTÉ, NUJ and Council for Civil Liberties urge Seanad to amend Bill

Opposition has Government in a bind on college registration fees

Micheál Martin performed a masterclass in sidestepping questions about rising costs

Four super-junior Ministers currently attend Cabinet

Some protesters shouted ‘traitors’ and ‘collaborators’ to staff and visitors entering and leaving complex

Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald refused to rule herself out of the race on Monday

RTÉ group of unions to criticise ‘closure’ of religious affairs programming department

Sinn Féin’s Pa Daly taking constitutional challenge over Government’s Cabinet

Budget ministers and party leaders are determined to eliminate the ‘once-off’ giveaways of the last three budgets

FAI was due to appear before committee next Wednesday

Possible consequences of the bill continue to worry some in Government

Retailers should fight defamation claims ‘and not take easy route’, says Minister

Committee hears services can be traded on internet and by email and were very difficult to monitor and quantify

Fine Gael are not happy but this, in a way, appears part of the post-election hangover

Fine Gael privately seething over the controversy as Opposition parties unite in anger

Elsewhere, Ifac will advocate for budgetary caution, while Dublin has a new Lord Mayor

Sinn Féin’s moves to retain juries in defamation cases were rejected by the Government previously

From a Dáil row over the GPO to further housing woes, your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

Long-standing Dáil custom is most commonly used when a Minister travels abroad or is sick

Labour Court recommends scheme be extended for a further six months

Numbers paying licence fee dropped from 950,000 in 2022 to 790,000 in 2024, Dáil hears

Ireland and other countries favour sanctions against Israel, including suspending a trade agreement

Jim O’Callaghan said gardaí are being continually trained to deal with the issue

Some people might have been thinking Jim O’Callaghan was chosen to answer questions precisely because of the topic

Recent controversy at CHI and Beaumont related to ‘insourcing’ practice by NTPF

Sinn Féin leader says November poll must be last where franchise not all-Ireland

Elsewhere, Donald Trump’s latest foe proves to be the Pentagon’s intelligence arm

Imagine Micheál Martin doing your weekly shop? He’d refuse to look at a biscuit, the house would be awash with broccoli and you’d die for the want of a cheese-and-onion crisp

Dáil hears EU’s ‘descent into moral turpitude has been both swift and shocking. Its silence on Gaza deafening’

There had been efforts to have the new hospital called after Kathleen Lynn

The ceasefire, if it holds, would end 10 days of hostilities between the two nations

‘My drinking had always been too heavy. I had my first drink at 14,’ says Social Democrats TD