Labour report urges more power for leaderEXTRA POWERS should be given to the Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore and taken away from the party's currently powerful National…Sat Sept 27 2008 - 01:00
Meeting on future of PDs put off until NovemberThe Progressive Democrats' meeting to decide whether the party should live or die will not take place until November, following…Fri Sept 26 2008 - 01:00
Lenihan backs redundancy scheme for public servantsCIVIL AND public servants should be offered a redundancy package, the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, said last night.Thu Sept 25 2008 - 01:00
PD leader says it is time for party to foldTHE PROGRESSIVE Democrats would have to wind up sooner or later and it is better to do it now rather than wait for an undignified…Thu Sept 25 2008 - 01:00
Trucks to be fitted with safety mirrorsHEAVY TRUCKS will have to be fitted with new safety mirrors from January 1st in a European Union-inspired move to cut deaths …Thu Sept 25 2008 - 01:00
Coillte pays €3.7m for estate land to settle disputeCOILLTE HAS agreed a multi-million euro deal with Lord Waterford to end a long-running legal battle between them over the preservation…Wed Sept 24 2008 - 01:00
Fás to face second official investigationTHE STATE’S training agency Fás is to face a second investigation following the decision of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee…Wed Sept 24 2008 - 01:00
Nationality of Libertas founder was listed as British in UK recordsLIBERTAS FOUNDER Declan Ganley was listed for nearly a decade as a British national in official UK company records, before changing…Mon Sept 22 2008 - 01:00
De Rossa will contest European electionLABOUR'S DUBLIN MEP Proinsias De Rossa is to contest next year's European Parliament elections ending speculation about his political…Mon Sept 22 2008 - 01:00
Budget will attack the poor - GilmoreTHE GOVERNMENT'S plan to abolish the Combat Poverty Agency shows it is readying to attack the poor in next month's budget, Labour…Fri Sept 19 2008 - 01:00
US to issue 20,000 one-year work visasTWENTY THOUSAND one-year working visas to the United States are to be made available under a deal to be agreed in a final round…Fri Sept 19 2008 - 01:00
Plans to organise in North off the agendaFIANNA FÁIL has indefinitely put off plans to organise in Northern Ireland - despite serious consideration of the issue last …Wed Sept 17 2008 - 01:00
FF aims to avoid 'errors' of last local electionsCANDIDATE SELECTION: FIANNA FÁIL will run a centrally controlled campaign in next year's local elections, with reduced candidate…Wed Sept 17 2008 - 01:00
Lenihan says more states to breach EU borrowing limitsEUROPEAN UNION RULES: IRELAND WILL not be the only country to fall foul of European Union borrowing rules even if it is likely…Tue Sept 16 2008 - 01:00
Taoiseach signals big budget cuts inevitablePUBLIC SPENDING will be sharply restrained in next month's budget, the Taoiseach has warned, offering the clearest signal yet…Tue Sept 16 2008 - 01:00
Cowen pessimistic on pay rise for State workersThe Government's ability to increase pay next year for hundreds of thousands of State employees has "even tightened in the past…Tue Sept 16 2008 - 01:00
Cowen claims aid to buyers will not inflate house pricesTHE GOVERNMENT will not "artificially inflate" house prices, but will offer help to the lower-paid to get local authority loans…Tue Sept 16 2008 - 01:00
Irish banks weathering storm, says LenihanIreland's banks are weathering the global economic storm that has claimed two of New York's four largest investment banks, the…Mon Sept 15 2008 - 01:00
Cowen warns FF TDs country faces tougher timesIreland faces "much tougher" economic times over the coming year, or two, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has warned Fianna Fail TDs during…Mon Sept 15 2008 - 01:00
Suspects who pose risk to children to be vettedTHE GOVERNMENT is to draft legislation urgently that will let the State collect and share information about people who pose a…Fri Sept 12 2008 - 01:00
No State agency 'immortal', warns Mansergh ahead of quango cullNO STATE agency should regard itself as “immortal”, Minister of State Martin Mansergh has warned, as he made it clear that a …Fri Sept 12 2008 - 01:00
Referendum on protection of children 'secretly' axedFINE GAEL will not remain part of a major Oireachtas child protection committee unless the Government commits to honouring a …Tue Sept 09 2008 - 01:00
Revenue warns accountants over aiding tax cheatsACCOUNTANTS HAVE been warned by the Revenue Commissioners that they will be prosecuted for aiding and abetting tax evasion if…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
Ministers have just two days to cut budgets by 2½%MINISTERS HAVE just two days to finalise spending plans for next year before Wednesday's crucial Cabinet meeting, in the face…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
PDs hope Grealish does not defect to FFSENIOR PROGRESSIVE Democrat figures are hopeful that the party will not suffer the defection of Galway TD, Noel Grealish, despite…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
Govt has reneged on child referendum - FGThe Government has reneged from a solemn promise to bring in statutory rape laws and improve children's rights under the Constitution…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
FG to unveil children's rights referendum planFIANNA FÁIL'S failure to honour promises to have a children's right referendum will be criticised today by Fine Gael.Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
TD suggests lump sum for jobless foreignersFOREIGN UNEMPLOYED workers in Ireland could be given a lump sum payment of up to six months' worth of unemployment benefit if…Fri Sept 05 2008 - 01:00
Government plans clampdown on pirate DVD salesTHE GOVERNMENT is set to introduce tougher powers to curb sales of counterfeit DVDs, which are costing the entertainment industry…Thu Sept 04 2008 - 01:00
Irish media now more Eurosceptic, warns EC reportIRELAND'S MEDIA have become more Eurosceptic and more tabloid in their reporting in the years between the second Nice Treaty …Tue Sept 02 2008 - 01:00
Tensions rise over issue of children's rightsTENSIONS HAVE increased between the Government and Fine Gael over ever-strengthening signals from the Government that a children…Tue Sept 02 2008 - 01:00
Latest pay talks likely for ThursdayINVITATIONS FROM Taoiseach Brian Cowen to trade union leaders and employers to meet to agree on a new round of social partnership…Tue Sept 02 2008 - 01:00
Loans to Ahern 'did not warrant' investigationTHE PAYMENTS received by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Manchester and Dublin in the early 1990s "did not warrant" investigation…Wed Jul 30 2008 - 01:00
Rule changes would facilitate inquiries, says ethics bodyETHICS LEGISLATION should be changed to make it easier for politicians and officials to be investigated, the Standards in Public…Wed Jul 30 2008 - 01:00
Ethics watchdog will not examine Ahern paymentsBertie Ahern will not face an ethics inquiry over loans and gifts he received in the early 1990s from Manchester businessmen …Tue Jul 29 2008 - 01:00
Checks between North and rest of UK on wayPEOPLE TRAVELLING between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom will be subjected to stiffer identity checks before…Mon Jul 28 2008 - 01:00
O'Malley to stand for PDs in byelectionTHE PROGRESSIVE Democrat Senator Fiona O’Malley has given party colleagues a guarantee that she will contest the Dublin South…Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00
Polluters to be hit with costs of clean-upMAJOR POLLUTERS will be forced to pay millions in clean-up costs in addition to existing penalties under tough new legislation…Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Majority are happy with Lisbon result - pollTHE MAJORITY of the public are happy with the result of the Lisbon Treaty referendum, including one in 10 of those who voted …Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
TDs and Senators to participate in aid workTDS AND Senators from all parties and one member of the Stormont Assembly are to spend some of their summer holidays on volunteer…Thu Jul 24 2008 - 01:00
Minister to consider new controls on parties' poster campaignsELECTION AND referendum posters could be the subject of tougher regulations under measures to be considered by Minister for the…Wed Jul 23 2008 - 01:00
Reprieve for Labour members denied vote in Europe selectionHUNDREDS OF Labour Party supporters from Kerry who had been denied votes in this weekend's selection of the party's European …Wed Jul 23 2008 - 01:00
Sarkozy's controversial visit cut to just four hoursFRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial visit to Dublin on Monday, which will include a private meeting with Yes and…Fri Jul 18 2008 - 01:00
Sarkozy 'forum' with No side scrappedPLANS FOR French president Nicolas Sarkozy to meet in public with anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigners have been scrapped, following…Thu Jul 17 2008 - 01:00
Ireland will have to vote again on Lisbon, says SarkozyFRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy’s declaration that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has caused…Wed Jul 16 2008 - 01:00
Ahern refuses to guarantee ban on betting machinesMINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern has refused to give the Labour Party a guarantee that controversial betting machines will be…Wed Jul 16 2008 - 01:00
Public servants 'lack knowledge' of disability issuesREPORT: PUBLIC SERVANTS are suffering from "a serious lack of knowledge" about their responsibilities to the disabled under …Thu Jul 10 2008 - 01:00
Bill will allow inspectors to evaluate more institutionsNEW LEGISLATION: THE OMBUDSMAN is to be given powers to investigate the treatment of members of the public by the National Treatment…Thu Jul 10 2008 - 01:00
5,000 State jobs could go without replacementsPUBLIC SERVICE PAYROLL: UP TO 5,000 State-employed workers will have to quit and not be replaced if the Government is to meet…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
'Lack of knowledge' in State bodies - OmbudsmanStaff in State organisations and departments are suffering "from a serious lack of knowledge" about their obligations to the …Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
