Micheál Martin

Fianna Fáil leader

Housing crisis will prevail until politicians legislate to prioritise owner-occupiers

Successive governments have facilitated mega-wealthy individuals and funds in purchasing large swathes of new and existing housing

Occupied Territories Bill to ‘move forward’ – but without restriction on services

Helen McEntee to raise EU-wide action again in Brussels as long-proposed legislation to be revived in Dáil

Israeli minister’s taunts ‘accelerate momentum’ for EU action, Taoiseach says

Video of Gaza aid flotilla activists being mistreated has ‘shocked the world’

Fourteen Irish flotilla activists subjected to ‘shocking treatment’ by Israel arrive in Turkey

Taoiseach calls for EU ban on Israeli settlement products after ‘shocking treatment’ of Global Sumud Flotilla activists

What is the EU-Israel association agreement and could it be suspended?

Support for suspending key deal has never reached required threshold

Ireland leads calls to review EU-Israel trade

Inside Politics: Micheál Martin says behaviour of Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards Gaza flotilla activists was ‘disgusting’ and ‘disgraceful’

Fears grow in Government over further tech job losses after Meta cuts 20 per cent of Irish workforce

More cuts expected as roll-out of artificial intelligence technology takes its toll

Taoiseach called ‘slíbhín’ for defence of changes to rental system amid record rent hikes

Micheál Martin accuses Mary Lou McDonald of ‘empty rhetoric, no solutions’ during testy exchanges and heckling in Dáil

‘Immigration not a big issue on the doors’: Galway West win for Noel Thomas would be a fresh blow to FF

Independent Ireland candidate says many people believe Government ‘completely disconnected from the ordinary person’

RTÉ plunged into crisis again – it’s like the world cliff diving championships in Montrose

If crisis were a sea, the national broadcaster would never be out of it

Laws bringing RTÉ under supervision of State spending watchdog approved by Cabinet

Legislation also beefs up mechanisms for assessing the performance and funding of national broadcaster

All to play for in Dublin Central and Galway West in last days of byelection campaigns

Plus RTÉ, Big Tobacco and some splendid news

EU will prevent sale of goods for use in Russia’s military, says bloc’s sanctions official

Group of MEPs demand EU stop export of aluminium products to Russian defence industry

These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil’s impact on housing

In 2020, about half of all houses appeared in an estate agent’s window for sale; in 2025, that figure was fewer than one in three

Dublin Central and Galway West byelections: Four things to watch in the last week of campaigning

Expect a frantic final few days in the constituencies as the campaigns enter the home stretch

RTÉ to be brought under remit of State’s independent spending watchdog

Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan will seek approval for a new Broadcasting Bill at Cabinet

Fianna Fáil critics stay in shadows during Micheál Martin’s weekend in the spotlight

Inside Politics: Pressure mounts on Keir Starmer, and there’s been suspicious betting on the Dublin Central byelection

Irregular betting on byelection; bodyguards to protect special care staff

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Leadership, byelections and Bertie: Five things we learned at the Fianna Fáil ardfheis

Mood was pretty good as party led by Taoiseach Micheál Martin for past 15 years gathered in Dublin on Saturday to celebrate its centenary

Government to examine level of profit in private health insurance market, says Taoiseach

Recent remarks on immigration by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern were ‘particularly disappointing’, says Martin

Lessons of humanity from famine ‘continue to resonate’, Taoiseach tells commemoration

National Famine Commemoration in Co Galway hosted by Minister for Culture Patrick O’Donovan

The delegates’ views: Fianna Fáil members say ‘leadership in waiting is very patient’

Party faithful give mixed views on Micheál Martin’s tenure, with no obvious challenger emerging amid concerns it is ‘difficult to find a TD who spans the generations’

Bertie’s outburst wasn’t part of a Fianna Fáil master plan. It was worse than that

The real victim here, Ahern implied, was not “the Africans” or Muslim children who are going about their weekend oblivious to their designation as a national security threat, but himself

‘Powerful and heartbreaking’: A couch is what Ireland’s homeless children say they want most

Focus Ireland says the desires of children in homelessness accommodation – for more space, better beds and sheets, and that staff don’t shout at them – are ‘very basic’ demands

Fianna Fáil focuses on its legacy at ardfheis commemorating its 100th anniversary

Micheál Martin argued in his leader’s address that party is best placed to resolve Ireland’s long-term challenges

Housing a ‘defining challenge of our time’, Micheál Martin tells Fianna Fáil Ardfheis

Taoiseach addresses FF’s centenary ardfheis in Dublin, hailing party founders and defending record of ‘real and sustained achievement’

Fianna Fáil responsible for many ‘significant developments’ over 100 years, Taoiseach says

Micheál Martin claims party will remain a signifiant presence in Irish politics despite a more fragmented landscape

Social partnership can work – but not if it becomes another magic ATM for public servants

We can’t have all the short-term solutions we want and all the long-term investment we want

Fianna Fáil at 100: ‘They could certainly teach the Tories and UK Labour a thing or two’

Flexibility, pragmatism and ruthless, unceasing dedication to winning and retaining power have been the party’s hallmarks

ABBA the star of the show at Fianna Fáil’s ardfheis – Anyone But Bertie Ahern

CMAT sends a pointed message home to former taoiseach at New York gig

Fianna Fáil will not seek to stop Ahern from canvassing despite immigration remarks

Party struggling to make impact in upcoming Dublin and Galway byelections, polls show

Fianna Fáil at 100 is a white man’s party with a woman problem

No party can claim to have ‘something for everyone’ when it has a woman problem like Fianna Fáil’s

Public sector pay increases under local bargaining to be processed within weeks, Taoiseach says

Micheál Martin ‘up for’ talks on new agreement as union boss signals deal may prove difficult

Owners of back-garden modular homes face second local property tax charge, says Revenue

Even garages converted to dwellings will be liable to separate LPT charge, tax authority warns

Talks aimed at resolving ambulance staff industrial action set for Labour Court

Move follows 24-hour strike by National Ambulance Service workers over pay and grading

IBM teams up with SETU in multimillion euro educational initiative

Initiative will benefit students in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, data and AI and student-led technology societies

Micheál Martin under pressure over response to striking ambulance workers

Inside Politics: Spending ‘diktats’ from Jack Chambers are ‘going down like a lead balloon’, according to one Minister

Council’s Oliver Bond plans would have cost up to €700,000 per flat, housing committee told

Regeneration funds of €20 million still available for complex, senior civil servant tells TDs

The Irish Times view on 100 years of Fianna Fáil: party of power and pragmatism

Leadership has always been central to the party’s sense of who it is

Striking ambulance unions urged to re-enter talks as patient safety ‘clearly at risk’

HSE says 24-hour stoppage on Tuesday had a ‘significant impact’ on services and waiting times

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