Will Sinn Féin lose a seat in Laois, and will Brian Stanley retain it as an independent republican?The senior TD may run against his former party - who have no obvious candidate to replace himWed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Justin Kelly named new Deputy Garda CommissionerKelly will now be considered one of the most likely candidates to replace Drew Harris next yearTue Oct 15 2024 - 14:06
McDonald to make statement on former Sinn Féin member who allegedly sent inappropriate texts to teenager Cover letter related to inquiry into complaint against Brian Stanley understood to make reference to text messages between parties involvedTue Oct 15 2024 - 13:51
What is the Occupied Territories Bill, why did it stall and can it be revived now?Proposed legislation introduced by Senator Frances Black long before current wars in Gaza and Lebanon beganTue Oct 15 2024 - 12:56
Sinn Féin-Brian Stanley row comes after nightmare couple of weeks for partySome of Sinn Féin’s other woes will be front and centre of Dáil proceedings todayTue Oct 15 2024 - 08:10
Sinn Féin says it told Brian Stanley to go to gardaí with concerns he raised during inquiryParty inquiry understood to have reached preliminary conclusion of gross misconduct against Laois-Offaly TD before he resigned at weekendMon Oct 14 2024 - 20:42
Will alliance boost chances of anti-immigration candidates being elected as TDs?The level of support for the parties in the alliance, along with the Irish Freedom Party, won less than 2% of the national vote in June’s local election and around 5% in the European electionSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:05
Political parties with far-right views on immigration form alliance to maximise election chancesAlliance includes Ireland First, the National Party and the Irish People, as well as some IndependentsSat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
PAC chairman hits out at ‘sky-high prices’ of affordable homes in south DublinLand Development Agency tells TDs there’s ‘huge interest’ in Shankill properties despite high pricesThu Oct 10 2024 - 15:40
Inside Politics: Planning Bill may have angered the Hulk, but it helps pave way for electionLegislation to reform An Bord Pleanála passes in Dáil as Taoiseach discusses Gaza with Joe BidenThu Oct 10 2024 - 08:05
Tenants in cost-rental homes paying €1,000 less per month than open market, PAC to be toldTDs to hear Land Development Agency has pipeline of 37 sites to deliver about 17,000 homesWed Oct 09 2024 - 21:14
Simon Harris goes to Washington - but what will he do when he gets home?Taoiseach and US president to hold low-key meeting in Oval Office as Hurricane Milton threat leads to cancellation of larger gatheringWed Oct 09 2024 - 07:35
Minister promises ‘easy’ process for firms to access new €4,000 grantMinister for Enterprise Peter Burke also announces support scheme for flood-hit businesses in CorkTue Oct 08 2024 - 16:17
Posters at the ready and cost-of-living payments more grist to early-election rumour millFianna Fáil election posters bearing the image of a smiling Micheál Martin were spotted stacked on a pallet in an industrial estateTue Oct 08 2024 - 15:34
Number of Ukrainians seeking permanent asylum is ‘relatively small’, Minister for Integration saysRoderic O’Gorman plays down concerns that numbers seeking permanent protection will increaseTue Oct 08 2024 - 11:39
Inside Politics: Sinn Féin under growing scrutiny over press officer’s caseMcDonald orders governance overhaul after two members offered references for man later convicted of sex offencesTue Oct 08 2024 - 07:58
Double pension and child benefit payments and cost-of-living lump sums to be paid by December 3rdTiming of the payments will likely fuel speculation around an early general electionTue Oct 08 2024 - 00:00
Lack of housing in Limerick more concerning than hotel shortage for Ryder Cup - mayorNew directly elected mayor of Limerick to push for the delivery of 1,000 modular homes as part of five-year programme to be finalised this monthThu Oct 03 2024 - 18:18
Parents of babies born in December to receive treble child benefit paymentBudget 2025: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald challenges Taoiseach to ‘bring it on’ and name general election dateWed Oct 02 2024 - 18:28
Millions for Olympians, dog control, ‘forgotten farmers’: nine budget measures you may have missedBudget 2025: Funding for chicken pox vaccines and an embassy in Serbia and tax relief for strawberry wine producers are also includedWed Oct 02 2024 - 13:13
New tax on vapes and cost of most popular cigarette brands to hit €18.05Budget 2025: The new tax is the latest in a series of measures aimed at discouraging the use of vapesTue Oct 01 2024 - 19:00
Budget 2025: What we know so far – from tax cuts to pension increases and free schoolbooksThis year’s measures will be framed around tax and spending package of €8.3bn, with cost-of-living bundle worth roughly €1.5bnTue Oct 01 2024 - 06:45
Many families to gain by thousands of euro in giveaway budgetExtra billions to be invested in water, housing and energy from the proceeds of bank sharesTue Oct 01 2024 - 05:34
Budget 2025: Parents of newborns to receive triple child benefit payment Maternity and paternity benefit to increase by €15 a week, welfare payments to increase by €12 while student grants to go up by 15%Mon Sept 30 2024 - 22:14
Irish troops in Lebanon will remain in place to continue monitoring and humanitarian workIreland currently has up to 375 troops in South Lebanon where it has been part of the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil) since 1978Mon Sept 30 2024 - 12:01
Inheritance tax threshold to hit €400,000 under giveaway budgetHouseholds to benefit from extension to reduced 9% VAT rate on energy bills into next yearSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
Budget 2025: Tax cut, mortgage interest relief and other measures in Coalition’s final roll of the diceUSC, inheritance tax, childcare, child benefit, social welfare, college fees, VAT rate: How the budget will affect parents, students, renters, mortgage holders, farmers, pensioners and carersSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin’s Ardfheis hears concerns over party’s backing of failed family and care referendumsSinn Féin’s ruling body will have to call a special conference to determine party’s position on future referendums after motion passed by delegatesFri Sept 27 2024 - 20:58
Sinn Féin to examine ‘limited’ success in increasing ‘activist’ membershipMotion from party’s ruling body calling for review of party structures passed by delegatesFri Sept 27 2024 - 20:42
Q&A: the ban on XL bully dogs - why is it happening and what will it mean for dog owners?Government is bringing in ban as a direct response to a number of horrific attacks on people in recent yearsThu Sept 26 2024 - 21:21
Occupied Territories Bill: Coalition Ministers note ICJ opinion on illegal Israeli settlementsProposed law, advanced in 2018, aims at banning imports from Israeli settlements on Palestinian landThu Sept 26 2024 - 17:03
Women not to lose out on maternity leave entitlements if ‘seriously ill’ under proposed lawPlanned legislation brought to Cabinet today will cover cancer, other serious physical and mental health ailmentsThu Sept 26 2024 - 15:29
Tánaiste says €1.4m cost of Government Buildings security hut is ‘ridiculous’ Details of cost emerge at committee meeting where politicians quizzed OPW on €336,000 Leinster House bike shelterWed Sept 25 2024 - 21:14
Hiring election staff at short notice becoming ‘increasingly difficult’, TDs and Senators toldDublin City returning officer says almost full employment in Ireland means recruitment is ‘becoming more challenging’Tue Sept 24 2024 - 12:15
Immigration is ‘a factor’ contributing to homeless numbers, says Darragh O’BrienMinister for Housing backs Taoiseach’s position after Simon Harris linked immigration to numbers in emergency accommodationMon Sept 23 2024 - 14:30
Renters in line for tax credit of up to €1,000 per year under budget proposalsExtra €250 for this year and for 2025 being discussed as deliberations continueMon Sept 23 2024 - 12:28
National children’s hospital to seek damages from construction firm BAM over further delaysLatest development in row over the construction of new children’s hospital, which has been hit by successive delays and spiralling cost over-runsSat Sept 21 2024 - 18:03
What’s so tricky about the proposal to give free contraception to 16-year-olds?Give Me a Crash Course in ...Sat Sept 21 2024 - 06:00
€335,000 Leinster House bike shelter was delayed due to concerns over removal of parking spaces for politiciansContractors were also concerned about disrupting Dáil with noise of machineryThu Sept 19 2024 - 12:33
Ireland’s tech regulators and gardaí to brief Ministers on improving online safety‘We find ourselves at an important juncture in terms of regulating the digital world,’ Taoiseach saysThu Sept 19 2024 - 00:01
Damien English is latest Fine Gael TD to drop out of election raceSeventeen of the 35 Fine Gael TDs who won seats in 2020 have now confirmed they will not run in the general electionWed Sept 18 2024 - 20:29
Pension tax relief rises to cover pots of up to €2.8m by 2029 under Cabinet plansLimit had caused problems for filling senior Garda and civil service rolesWed Sept 18 2024 - 16:10
Free contraception for 16-year-olds amounts to State giving licence for underage sex, says Aontú's Tóibín Stephen Donnelly is seeking an expansion to the scheme providing free contraception to women – including possibly to 16-year-oldsWed Sept 18 2024 - 13:18
Politicians speculating on November election ‘doing serious damage’, says Ceann ComhairleSeán Ó Fearghaíl says it is ‘undermining credibility in leadership’Wed Sept 18 2024 - 06:00
Energy credits and welfare lump-sums would be part of €1.5bn cost-of-living budget packageBudget 2025: Energy credits will be worth less than the three payments of €150 rolled out in last year’s budget.Wed Sept 18 2024 - 06:00
‘Transparency’ needed over hospital contracts after UHL revelations, says TánaisteHSE chief Bernard Gloster likely to face questions at Oireachtas committee on auditors’ reportTue Sept 17 2024 - 21:48
Páirc Uí Chaoimh mooted as alternative Euro 2028 venue to Casement ParkCroke Park also in the mix as Minister says it is important to ‘fight tooth and nail’ to keep as many games as possible on islandTue Sept 17 2024 - 17:29
Free public transport for children under nine and €500 cut to third-level student fees among budget proposalsFurther €500 cut to third-level fees and more special-needs assistants for schools being sought by Ministers in moves to aid parents and childrenMon Sept 16 2024 - 06:00
Plans for €2.5bn apartment remediation scheme to go before Cabinet Arrangement to fund remediation of defects for between 62,500 and 100,000 Celtic Tiger-era apartments or duplexesMon Sept 16 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin set to select new general secretary at upcoming ardfheisLong-time party activist Ken O’Connell announces his intention to leave the jobSun Sept 15 2024 - 21:12
