Dáil Éireann

Eradication of TB threat to Irish dairy exports ‘further away than ever’

Lakeland Dairies chairman urges greater efforts in protecting Irish produce and farmers

The battle of Browne vs Ó Snodaigh: Plans to mark Ireland’s Norman heritage sparks war of words

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: How a 14-year-old girl brought the plight of thousands of children to the political agenda

Drew Harris ‘deeply concerned’ over ‘erroneous’ Garda strip-search claims made in Dáil

Garda chief says women protesters arrested were treated ‘with respect at all times’ in letter to Ceann Comhairle

Numbers working on children’s hospital project dropped by third since January, politicians hear

Construction contractor BAM says site worker resources higher than expected for this stage of build

Gaza’s ‘apocalypse’ dominates Dáil discussions

Simon Harris set to bring memo to Cabinet seeking permission to draft Coalition’s replacement for the Occupied Territories Bill

‘Repulsive’; ‘obscene’; ‘genocide’: Dáil voices rise in unison over Israel’s slaughter in Gaza

Sinn Féin leader gets short shrift from Taoiseach in row over Central Bank’s Israeli war bonds issues

Equivalent of cost of national children’s hospital spent on bovine TB eradication

Sinn Féin’s Martin Kenny said an estimated €2.24bn had been spent on schemes to eliminate the disease

TD describes Israelis as ‘Nazis of the modern world’ as Dáil debates war in Gaza

EU-Israel Association Agreement should be suspended while review ongoing, Dáil hears

Government ‘all talk but no action’ on disability assessment backlog, says activist

Cara Darmody, who has started a 50-hour picket outside Leinster House, made the comments following meeting with Taoiseach

Significant shift internationally in stance towards Israel

17 EU countries have now rowed in behind the position first articulated by Dublin and Madrid

It’s a strange day in the Dáil when a schoolgirl makes the Government squirm with embarrassment

Cara Darmody made her presence felt as Taoiseach signalled intention to tackle delays for children awaiting assessment

Government to change law in bid to speed up autism and disability assessments

Ministers admit no quick fix for system estimated to have waiting list of 25,000 by end of year

Combining forces: Opposition plans to break the big two’s stranglehold on power begin to germinate

With Sinn Féin taking the lead, contact grows between parties of the left, though Labour and the Social Democrats are wary of having their identities eroded

It’s been like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds on Merrion Street since the sun started to shine

Mooney Goes Wild should do a programme from Leinster House

WHO’s treatment of Dr Mike Ryan proves to be a shocking case study

Dáil furore over unnecessary hip surgeries and Social Democrats on manoeuvres among other stories of the week

Land hoarders ‘laughing’ at local authorities as €20.5m owed in unpaid derelict site levies

Dáil hears that 13 local authorities applied no levy and 17 have collected ‘zero’ in fines for properties lying idle

Water failings the latest target in blame game over housing supply

What is going on with Irish government's will they, won’t they approach to tax giveaways?

Sinn Féin’s ‘Mr Angry’ meets immovable object that is Micheál

Martin has measure of Pearse Doherty and Co as Dáil standoff continues over delayed report into children’s hip surgery

Budget giveaway promises absent as Ireland’s economic model faces unprecedented threat

Trump practices art of the deal in Saudi Arabia as HSE seeks new boss

Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bind

Micheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’

Ruth Coppinger apologises for calling journalists ‘very pathetic’ in late night tweet

People Before Profit TD says she will continue to refuse questions from right-wing news outlet Gript

Good and bad news for Ireland from Trump’s UK deal

Row brewing over Leaving Cert reforms; Martin trades barbs with Orban

Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes

Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party

Ministers receive pay increases in new Cabinet under public sector deal

Government says ministers will ‘gift back a portion of their salary’ to the State

Never mind the new pope, who’s going to replace Liveline’s spiritual leader, Joe Duffy?

Michael McDowell coy at book launch, Bertie gives state-of-the-world address and Mark Daly feels the heat

‘Bob’ emerges from Vatican conclave while TDs join shorts protest

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Government backbencher fails to turn up for controversial ‘Other Members’ speaking slot

Red faces for Government benches in ‘no show’ for speaking rights slot that convulsed Dáil for months

Government remains extremely nervous about Occupied Territories Bill

Back at home, Government likely to come under pressure over Occupied Territories Bill

Miriam Lord: The cardinals wore frousers. Sure why can’t the girleens wear skorts?

The outcry over the camogie skorts rule made its way from the pitch to the plinth, and ultimately on to the floor of the Dáil

The cost for Ireland of Trump’s tariffs

Department of Finance report to EU Commission lays bare the impact of tariffs for Ireland’s economy

Ireland to follow new UK law with ban on face coverings at protests

WHO’s Mike Ryan describes Israel’s continuous onslaught of Gaza as an ‘abomination’

Miriam Lord’s week: A tsar has not been born and they need to get this tshitshow off the road

James Browne talks up his A-Team, TDs watch the pros in action while Pa Daly delights in saying nothing

Micheál Martin’s first 100 days: Coalition has achieved little amid delivery gaps and Dáil discord

Trump heads a list of challenges for the Taoiseach that includes housing, childcare, pensions and a raucous Dáil. He could hardly be said to have hit the ground running

Housing tsar row brings a strike-out before the first innings

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Mandatory alcohol warning labels could be reconsidered due to tariff impact on industry - Harris

Timeline ‘under consideration’ with eye on US tax impact on drinks industry

Multi-trillion dollar question is - will Trump blink when time is up on tariff pause?

Gabriel Makhlouf warns Trump’s tariffs pose ‘major downside risk’ to Ireland’s economy

Tsar Brendan the Terrible Big Salary, that mild-mannered banker set to pulverise those planners

Only one man can ruthlessly deliver and scale up like a mutant amphibious accountant in the country’s drains

Russian oligarch might approve ‘unjustifiable housing tsar salary’

Taoiseach accused of double standards over new agency chief’s salary, potential increases for heads of 30 semi-States

‘Housing tsar’ salary causing a mounting headache for the Coalition

James Browne’s intervention on appointment has already led to a thinly veiled rebuke from a spokesman for Simon Harris

Independent Ireland ‘open to nominating presidential candidate’

Party yet to decide if it will put forward one of its own members or join with others in backing an independent

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