Politics Fix

The Politics Fix - a political wrap of the week

Political jitters as Trump’s tariff liberation day may bring serious ramifications for Ireland

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Conor McGregor visits the White House as McDonald and Martin brawl in the Dáil

Israel acts with impunity in Gaza, and the other stories of the week

Taoiseach’s tricky Trump visit as hard to predict as Ireland vs France

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Simon Harris and Marco Rubio at odds over trade call

Europe’s leaders lined up to sway Trump on Ukraine - but did it work?

From Dáil speaking rights row to the German elections, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

As the Healy-Raes give the people what they want (tar) Trump to give Ireland what it doesn’t (tariffs)

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Furious scenes in the Dáil after Taoiseach’s unparliamentary language as Gaeilge

Twitchiness abounds as Gucci Government awaits invite to Trumps’ Irish jamboree

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: End of Dáil fireworks brings spending and housing to the fore

Storm Éowyn’s devastating aftermath overshadows Ireland’s political turbulence

From Seanad election latest to the neverending Dáil speaking rights row, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

Coalition talks are like Santa’s Grotto as Independents are busy writing their lists

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up a Israel enters a war of words with Ireland

The ‘will they, won’t they’ of government formation is like our very own Christmas rom-com

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Outside of coalition talks, other big story of the week was undoubtedly Eoin Hayes’s suspension from Social Democrats

Count weekend excitement gives way to slow bicycle race of government formation

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: While the overwhelming likelihood is next government will be based on FF and FG, there are wheels within wheels

Crucial weekend in election campaign as bland as an Uncle Colm monologue on Derry Girls

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Election 2024: TV bust up and SF down but not out - here’s what went on in week one of campaigning

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: O’Leary cuts the legs from under teachers; Independents move up the polls

A week of clearing the decks at breathtaking speed in readiness for an election

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Sinn Féin suffers another terrible week as election speculation hits fever pitch

From a possible pre-Christmas election to Sinn Féin's avalanche of scandals: your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

We didn’t have the Incredible Hulk taking on the Green Party on our bingo cards this week

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Payment dates for much-heralded double pension and child benefit announced

Coalition minds focus on election dates - just not when the All Blacks are in town

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up as Greens go to the wall over budget baby boost

Could damaging stories of wanton waste become the election’s ‘events dear boy, events’?

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Everyone wants a share of the Apple (pie) and has Simon Harris peaked?

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Pearse Doherty let fly at over ‘crazy’ pension plans

Will unruly Fianna Fáil TDs see Ireland get an EU Commissioner for Toilet Seats?

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Including row over hay is not going to be the last straw for the Government

Tori Towey case shows the power of politics to make a difference

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Questions remain about budget and Biden

From an early budget to candidate selection: If that’s not getting election ready, then what is?

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Martin lets fly, asking Independent TD, ‘What planet are you on?’

Trust between Defence Forces and Government hangs by a thread

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Controversy over Crotty case engulfs military as Chambers makes step up

Greens set to provide political anoraks with leadership battle denied to us by Fine Gael

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Dublin City Council move shows impact of local elections

From blueshirts on bikes to a talking point gone awry: The election’s all TBD

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Local and European election voting finally begins

Trump’s trial verdict tops political agenda overseas, but Palestine is the big story at home

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Sinn Féin and Ministers get on first names basis (and not in a good way) as housing tensions sizzle

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up as Ireland’s response to Gaza goes on a global stage

Immigration and borders bring Fianna Fáil slugfest and a Laurel and Hardy pratfall for Sinn Féin

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Merrion Street vs Downing Street as very public spat over immigration becomes a gift to the Tories

Your essential end-of-week politics catch-up as rolling controversies at RTÉ look set for a return to centre stage

Simon Harris’s ‘row back’ on 250,000 new homes ‘soundbite’ could prove a slippery banana skin

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: The Greens unexpectedly opening fire at Varadkar over asylum seeker beds

After years of being sidelined, ignored and neglected, the Stardust relatives finally get redemption

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up from Michael Collins’s Trumpian bombast to Simon Harris’s big promises

Mary Lou beats ‘as láthair’ Tiktok Taoiseach at his own game

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up from Ringer’s ghostly ministry to gaily-painted cupcakes

Just another dull week in Irish politics. Nothing doing. Nada. Same old same old

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up including Gary Gannon’s memorable bust-up with anti-immigration campaigner

If the No side were ice-cream they’d lick themselves; Leo’s US photo op balls-up

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Ministers’ relief to go wheels-up for St Patrick’s Day

The most underwhelming referendum campaign since blasphemy has stuttered to its finale

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up and are pay rises for all on the cards for semi-state bosses?

Was Bakhurst at the committee to make the tea? And a backbencher on ‘bad Government business’

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Dear God, will the RTÉ saga never end?

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Jaws drop with new RTÉ payment nugget, while TV licence argy-bargy leaves Dáil ears ringing

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Sinn Féin to finally get its hands on the prize almost two years after winning North elections

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up, from the imminent return of Stormont to the text that downed Mercosur

Sinn Féin is accused of soft-pedalling on Gaza while poor old RTÉ continues its self-flagellation

Your essential end-of-week politics catch-up, from the State’s shift on migrant policy to Elon Musk’s warning to Ireland

The Dáil’s return brings a bad week for polygamists while People Before Profit try to have their cake and eat it

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

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