Micheál Martin

Jewish Representative Council ‘delighted’ Ireland is to adopt framework for stamping out targeting of Jewish people

Fianna Fáil set to have 8 Cabinet seats and 7 will go to Fine Gael with Micheál Martin becoming next Taoiseach

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Fine Gael proposal dropped amid concerns about international instability and economic uncertainty

How can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?

Gathering almost every TD with a stake in the status quo in one government will prove to be a mistake

Healy-Raes say they will not be ‘whipped’ when it comes to ‘fundamental issues’ and ‘matters of conscience’

Michael D Higgins said massive scale-up of humanitarian aid is needed now to save lives

VAT to fall from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent for food, hospitality, hairdressers and entertainment in next budget

Some political issues remain to be ironed out around the structures underpinning a new government and asks from Independent TDs

Department of Enterprise insists the view does not pre-empt outcome of an investigation into dynamic pricing being conducted by the consumer watchdog

Fianna Fáil likely to get Department of Justice, with Dublin TD Jim O’Callaghan among names floated for the ministerial role

Agreement signed between Department of Foreign Affairs and BTYSTE to support science in developing countries, especially Africa

Regional Independent group and two Healy-Rae brothers set to join new government if negotiations are successful

Party’s vision of early Border polls followed by a united Ireland is in stark contrast to the new government’s approach

Group of eight Independent TDs will submit a position paper to the two bigger parties setting out its preconditions for entering government

One of the first tasks of the new government will be how to persuade the incoming Trump administration that Ireland is not a soft touch

Taoiseach says he accepted findings of Moriarty tribunal but that he knows ‘the practicalities of how the Dáil works’

Series of referendums on issues such as housing and water ‘highly unlikely’, negotiators say

Tánaiste visited Apple HQ in Cork day before tech giant told another Minister that ‘slow progress’ on infrastructure in city was ‘hindering’ its growth plans

Micheál Martin said Russian attacks continue ‘to cynically target civilians and civilian infrastructure’

Year ahead promises no shortage of intrigue and challenge for the political classes as they look to digest a new reality brought about by the year of elections

Current indications are that upwards of 940,000 passports will be sought and issued this year

After a year of two lost referendums, a taoiseach’s resignation and huge losses for government partners the Greens, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are returning to power

State funeral scheduled for Jaunary 9th, at which Biden will deliver a eulogy

Planet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024

A year of change heralds a future of more of the same

Tony Blair had it right when he said manifestos and campaign promises are ‘a guide to winning but they’re an unsuitable guide to governing, except in describing what you hope will happen’

Tánaiste says hunger caused by conflicts is being exacerbated by denial of humanitarian aid by warring parties

Former Green Party leader opens up about ‘being attacked from all sides’ and party’s general election wipeout

The family and care referendums were soundly rejected, Leo Varadkar most unexpectedly stepped down, and there was a decided turnaround in parties’ fortunes

A political year of shocks and surprises somehow ended up as it began: with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in cahoots. The politician of the year may have had something to do with it

New coalition government ‘on track’ to be formed by January 22nd, Simon Harris says

French-made Dassault Falcon 6X will be a ‘game-changer for the State’s transport, airlift and medical capabilities’, says Tánaiste Micheál Martin

Micheál Martin also calls on Fianna Fáil TDs to vote for Wexford TD but in 2020 described her remarks on asylum seekers ‘quite dangerous’

Wexford Independent TD now favourite - but presence of sitting chair Ó Fearghaíl could complicate secret ballot

Report was commissioned in wake of controversy over Cathal Crotty, an Army private who was spared jail last June after beating a woman, Natasha O’Brien, unconscious

Taoiseach said he would not comment on ‘personalised and false attacks and remains focused on the horrific war crimes being perpetrated in Gaza’

Two officers attacked are members of Dublin Armed Support Unit

Members of the Jewish and Israeli communities in Ireland describe closure as ‘tragic’ and ‘distressing’