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Sinn Féin and Labour express support for scrapping €3,000 student registration charge, but two main Government parties say boosting student grants is more equitable

Dublin West TD says parties must ‘come together to learn from what has happened in France’ in call for agreement

Another five years of FF/FG rule would be disastrous for the country. Left parties and Independents must come together and stop this happening

Verona Murphy’s Wexford Independent Alliance makes a splash and has five councillors elected

European election: Independents Michael McNamara and Mick Wallace, Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion, Green Party’s Grace O’Sullivan and Fianna Fail’s Cynthia Ní Mhurchú are battling for the other three seats

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of the seats declared so far

Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months

Local and European elections: Canvassing with People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, you can sense a cooler atmosphere, and Sinn Féin is certainly no longer flavour of the month

Cocktail of misinformation, disinformation and right-wing populism not as prevalent in Ireland compared to Europe

With polling showing Independents on nearly a quarter of the vote, Ivana Bacik makes election pitch

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

This day next week, Ireland goes to the polls to elect councillors, MEPs and a mayor for Limerick. Here’s the state of the nation

Local elections: More women starting to make a mark in a political system ultimately ‘designed primarily for men by men’

Richard Boyd-Barrett tells Housing Fight Back rally current State policy is a ‘disaster’

Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive

People Before Profit councillor Hazel De Nortúin submitted complaint which has been referred back to Standards in Public Office

Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell

Opposition parties demand early general election as Taoiseach shocks country by announcing he would resign as Fine Gael leader immediately and step down as the head of Government in early April

Staff and representatives had difficulty contacting new owners of business during two weeks’ notice given on closures

Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri says he did not want to see Ireland ‘go down the road’ of other European countries where anti-immigrant sentiment is surging

Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows party’s lead cut as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hold firm and smaller parties gain

Referendum countdown: Here is how many of the most prominent organisations recommend you vote - and why

More than 13,000 summonses for failure to pay TV licence issued last year, with Varadkar saying he would like a new system for funding public service broadcasting in place by 2025

Both referendums due to take place on March 8th, International Women’s Day

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Ceann Comhairle suspends chamber after People Before Profit TDs, calling for a debate on Gaza, fail to resume their seats

Bríd Smith accuses some TDs of echoing far-right, while Ceann Comhairle says her claims diminish ‘appalling nature’ of Nazism

Party will support referendums despite saying Government’s wording is ‘well short’ of what is required

Sinn Féin to meet next week to determine approach, while Labour, Social Democrats and People Before Profit all tabling amendments to proposed wording

Party rejects idea of ‘two-state solution’ in newly published pamphlet and call for new ‘secular, democratic Palestine’ in place of Israel

Political parties’ youngest local election candidates don’t remember the bad old days, but they’re optimistic that they can provide hope for the future

Pragmatists in Sinn Féin have accepted privately that a left-led government is unlikely and their most viable path to power is in a coalition with Fianna Fáil

Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett urges Government to do more for Irish citizens and those with Irish connections who are trapped in the conflict zone

More than 100 people demonstrate over US veto of UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza

People Before Profit calls for boycott ambassador’s reception over US refusal to back Gaza ceasefire

Fossil fuel allegations dismissed by Cop28 hosts as UAE insists ‘unprecedented outcome' still achievable

Incident one of two on Monday evening where Opposition politicians were targeted with People Before Profit blaming ‘far right agitators’

Opposition unites to condemn Government plans to remove triple lock mechanism

People Before Profit call for sanctions and stop to use of Shannon by US troops in motion