Martin Heydon

Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice

Speculation intensifying six days ahead of formal appointment of new Cabinet next Wednesday

Election 2024: Fine Gael junior minister Martin Heydon seeking re-election and should get over the line handily enough

Records show lobbying push from Kerry Group and Dawn Farms against proposal to phase out flavourings

Minister of State Martin Heydon said move by Minister Charlie McConalogue with harvest under way has thrown plans of many farmers into disarray

Government signals it would be willing to fund purchase of historic Dublin Georgian mansion

Senior Fianna Fáil ministers are diplomatic but the party’s backbenchers are openly angry and detect Varadkar’s hand in the populist policy gambit

As McGrath considers how to spend surpluses, time pressure mounts on politicians to have their voices heard

Smart Money: Indexing for inflation and preparing ground ahead of a General Election means €1,000 tax package figure per middle income earner might not be too far fetched

Party meeting sees Fine Gael members turn on Fianna Fáil partners who ‘crashed the economy’

Intervention surprised some in Coalition, while others described it as ‘kite flying that gets earlier every year’

Heydon to announce breakthrough in how to select and breed lower methane-emitting cattle at Washington conference

Breakthrough opens up potentially huge market for Irish farmers

Will Micheál Martin opt for Foreign Affairs? Can Stephen Donnelly survive the changes? And where will Simon Harris end up?

McConalogue to lead major agrifood trade mission to US this week

Elsewhere, we were doing time on Bernard’s watch, and saw some political engagement

Tánaiste assures dairy farmers new carbon budgets won’t put limits on milk production

Data suggests Ireland is tracking the more optimistic side of projections, says Tánaiste

Extra funding to boost farm safety, flood prediction and video games among others

Competition involves up to 300 firms saving as much CO2 as possible

Irish farmers will increasingly receive EU payments based on environmental results

Minister pledges clearance within six to eight weeks once level 5 restrictions are eased

Exports grown in last 10 years to value of €872m last year, notably dairy and pig meat

Fine Gael party meeting hears calls to allow more people attend religious services

If that’s the case, why not just move Christmas to July and have done with it?

Minister of State Martin Heydon submits proposal on idea to Taoiseach and Tánaiste

Varadkar opens scheme first to SMEs in Kildare, followed by 2,000 nationwide

New Cabinet younger on average than outgoing one, with no members older than 60

Several TDs from west get posts, but not everyone in the parties has been placated

Jack Chambers and Niall Collins appointed Ministers of State as Jim O’Callaghan and Joe McHugh turn down roles

Deal would see Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael get eight roles each with four going to Greens

Minister wants schools opened fully in September using ‘class bubbles’

Former Defence Forces commandant Cathal Berry is targeting a seat in Kildare South

Cathal Berry to run as Independent in Kildare South on pro-Defence Forces platform

Party is damaged by Dáil voting controversy and glad election is not imminent

Unsuccessful candidate said she was ‘intimidated’ at meeting to vote no confidence in TD

Kildare local election candidate pleaded guilty to fraud charges in mid-1990s

Loot boxes are like shiny lucky-dip bags that are treated as a form of early gambling in several countries

Group will ‘develop links’ with NI parties and build FG profile in North, says party chair

Parties wanted to set impossibly high targets for reducing carbon footprint so Government would not reach them, meeting heard