Miriam Lord’s Dáil end-of-term awards: from cute hoors to rookie errors and good operators
Big Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...
Big Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...
The rejigged NDP is ‘unprecedented in scale and scope’, said the Tánaiste. It’s also a bit light on detail
TD warns of breeding practices where 8,000 pups registered annually but 25,000 for sale on dog website
Spending on infrastructure to rise as cost-of-living measures unlikely to feature
Junior Minister Michael hosted a lunch in Leinster House to thank his general election team, but TD brother Danny didn’t attend
Tánaiste hits out at Sinn Féin error on supermarket ownership - ‘I know who owns SuperValu’
Legislation is back on the Dáil agenda to support government decision-making in the interests of future generations
Public has little sense the Government is getting to grips with problems
Independent TD got a cheer from the Gaza protesters corralled beyond Buswell’s Hotel
The race for the presidency gathered pace on Tuesday with Fine Gael nominating former European commissioner Mairéad McGuinness to be its candidate
Danny Healy-Rae makes impassioned plea on behalf of Killorglin publicans ahead of Puck Fair
Dáil Public Accounts Committee to review contract for television and audio coverage of Oireachtas proceedings
Inquiry that led to new Commission of Investigation found ‘528 abuse allegations across 17 special schools’
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
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices