Budget 2026: Doubts over €12-a-week welfare hike as personal tax cuts ruled out
Lower student fees and rise in income thresholds for grants remain on table with talks going to wire
Paschal Donohoe confirms no personal tax changes to be made in budget
Minister for Finance says focus will be on tax measures that keep jobs in the country and enhance Ireland’s competitiveness
Next presidential election TV debate should be a decidedly more lively affair
Your essential end-of-week politics catch up
Budget 2026: Public-transport fares set to remain at reduced level next year
DPER understood to be pushing back against indefinite freeze but full reversal to highest level of fares is not likely
Sinn Féin alternative Budget 2026 includes €450 energy credit and cuts to USC and college fees
Social Democrats propose €15 increase to weekly welfare payments while Labour would extend free public transport to all under-18s
Budget 2026: No changes to personal income tax planned
Proposed €9.4bn package ‘poses a risk of overheating the economy’, oversight committee warns
Budget 2026: €400 energy credit, welfare increases and cut to high-earner tax credit among Social Democrats’ proposals
Social Democrats would seek to drive down cost-of-living
Presidential campaigns spend more than €17,000 advertising online
Online political campaigns likely to be affected as Meta plans to stop running such advertising in EU from early this month
Ministers in fraught negotiations over tightest budget in years
Senior Ministers yet to settle financial positions for 2026 as budget day looms
Garda unit dedicated to Troubles-era legacy issues to be operational by year-end
Darragh O’Brien to seek agreement to develop draft legislation allowing him to remove Dublin Airport’s passenger cap
Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin will waive pension entitlements if they win presidential election
President Micheal D Higgins waived his Oireachtas and ministerial pensions during his two terms in office
Budget 2026: All we know so far about tax, Christmas bonus double payment and child benefit
Growth in current expenditure set to slow while Coalition turns attention to delivery of big infrastructure projects
TDs and Senators warned about block-booking Leinster House tours
One politician’s office provisionally booked 118 tour slots at Leinster House, Oireachtas authorities say
‘I was hoping for Paul Mescal,’ tourist says after meeting Jim Gavin on campaign trail
But Fianna Fáil candidate has different star power as he brings GAA fame and vision for Áras to South Dublin
Jim Gavin ‘didn’t see’ bullying or sexism during Defence Forces career
Fianna Fáil presidential candidate says Women of Honour group has done State a service by highlighting abuse in organisation