Dáil Éireann

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

Before the Dáil even sat, the Social Democrats were down a TD over questions about his shareholding in a company with close ties to the IDF

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: AIB buys back all its shares, while politicians tear strips off Children’s Health Ireland representatives in front of an Oireachtas committee

Simon Harris claims Sinn Féin is the ‘wealthiest party’ and property owner in the Dáil

Rent pressure zone reforms has been the political story of the week

Verona Murphy is not for extending response time despite interruptions much to Martin’s annoyance

Opposition hit out at rental reforms as ‘ramshackle, haphazard, back-of-the-envelope’ proposals

Call made as ‘not a deadline in sight’ on any Government public transport plan

Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald tells Dáil the Health Information and Quality Authority needs stronger powers

Questions over electricity supply for data centres plague the Government

‘It seems the last shower did damn all because they were too busy preparing for the general election, but new boy Micheál wouldn’t know anything about that’

Political figures are citing the global uncertainty as a reason for prudence in the upcoming Budget 2026

Refusal to attend not acceptable, says Fine Gael TD and PAC member James Geoghegan

Sinn Féin leader says Government should seek UN reform over ‘sidestepping’ organisation

Former children’s show presenter Timmy Mallett has been cycling around Ireland in memory of his late brother, and recently met Micheál Martin in Cork

Your essential end-of-week politics catch-up: Why did 30 party activists walk out of ‘establishment’ People Before Profit?

Bank comes under intense political scrutiny amid second Dáil vote

Taoiseach Micheál Martin spots Minister – who had supposedly quit – smoking outside amid proposal to make Leinster House a tobacco-free zone

Secondary school pupil criticises Government approach as ‘all talk, no action’

The case of Evan Fitzgerald has been referred to Fiosrú, the police ombudsman

As the Taoiseach batted away criticism of Coalition’s rent reforms, he may have asked himself, ‘what would the king of Jordan do?’

Left-wing and Independent politicians claim number of Oireachtas members are uncomfortable with plans to relax triple lock

Landlords will be classified as big or small for the first time under changes being proposed to Cabinet today

Richie Herlihy met none of the TDs he wouldn’t get along with, but if he had, he would have given them a piece of his mind

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Sinn Féin attempting to block another Opposition party’s Bill going to second stage potentially undemocratic, says O’Callaghan

In the News podcast: Lithuanian Zigimantas Gridziuska was a repeat offender who should have been behind bars

Tánaiste rejects claims Government not doing enough for Palestinian people

Independents overboard as two Government-supporting TDs voted against Coalition over Palestine

Questions about the €3.5m IT fiasco, ‘groupthink’ and that promo ad didn’t match the roasting of two years ago over Tubsgate

Martin accuses McDonald of using ‘false narrative’, and insists Central Bank ‘does not issue or sell or oversee the sale of Israeli bonds’

About 40 people held up Palestinian flags at the Dáil and unfurled a large banner stating 'sanction Israel'

Nearly 14 years after Shane O’Farrell’s needless death, the Minister of Justice presents a public apology

Mary Lou McDonald describes speech by Paschal Donohue dismisses as ‘utter, utter disgrace’

Government to establish scholarship in memory of cyclist killed in hit-and-run by repeat offender

Opposition plans ‘Raise the Roof’ protest on housing amid new measures

Author’s new guide to ‘what you really need to know about how the country runs’

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

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

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