Miriam Lord’s week: A tsar has not been born and they need to get this tshitshow off the road
James Browne talks up his A-Team, TDs watch the pros in action while Pa Daly delights in saying nothing
Dáil Éireann
Micheál Martin’s first 100 days: Coalition has achieved little amid delivery gaps and Dáil discord
Trump heads a list of challenges for the Taoiseach that includes housing, childcare, pensions and a raucous Dáil. He could hardly be said to have hit the ground running
Housing tsar row brings a strike-out before the first innings
Your essential end-of-week politics catch up
Mandatory alcohol warning labels could be reconsidered due to tariff impact on industry - Harris
Timeline ‘under consideration’ with eye on US tax impact on drinks industry
Multi-trillion dollar question is - will Trump blink when time is up on tariff pause?
Gabriel Makhlouf warns Trump’s tariffs pose ‘major downside risk’ to Ireland’s economy
Tsar Brendan the Terrible Big Salary, that mild-mannered banker set to pulverise those planners
Only one man can ruthlessly deliver and scale up like a mutant amphibious accountant in the country’s drains
Russian oligarch might approve ‘unjustifiable housing tsar salary’
Taoiseach accused of double standards over new agency chief’s salary, potential increases for heads of 30 semi-States
‘Housing tsar’ salary causing a mounting headache for the Coalition
James Browne’s intervention on appointment has already led to a thinly veiled rebuke from a spokesman for Simon Harris
Independent Ireland ‘open to nominating presidential candidate’
Party yet to decide if it will put forward one of its own members or join with others in backing an independent
The 34th Dáil is finally set to get to work. But what’s on the agenda?
Government is already facing a brewing political row over mooted salary for ‘housing tsar’
Martin and Harris: how is the Coalition working?
The Government faces a big challenge with trade and the economy, but the bigger fears are around chronic problems – most acutely, in housing
Oireachtas committee chair appointments under way ahead of Dáil return next week
Dispute over speaking time for Independent TDs had held up decisions to hand out key roles with €10,880 salary top-up
Miriam Lord’s Easter awards: Best Varadkar tribute act, Jemser balance respected and outstanding Dáil dust-up
From the Burke family to Mattie McGrath and Michael Lowry, here are the winners of Miriam Lord's Easter awards
Garda Commissioner insists protesters arrested in Dublin were not strip-searched, and no cavity search
TDs alleged members of Mothers Against Genocide group faced ‘strip searches, degrading treatment and cavity search’
For Trump, everything is a victory - even a resounding defeat
Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Is Eoin Hayes a Social Democrats TD, or is he not?
Media regulator made ‘big mistake’ in not tackling algorithms in online safety code, Dáil hears
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore warns of ‘endless, relentless toxic feeds’ to children ‘in doom loop’
Minister knew last year of reports of unnecessary paediatric surgeries but families were only told in past week, Dáil hears
Pearse Doherty claims thousands of children could be affected as parents speak of procedures a decade ago
Trump blinks, but what does it mean?
On the home front, draft laws on short term lettings stalled as they were due to go to Cabinet on Tuesday
Soc Dems win bid to have Eoin Hayes named party TD as they seek committee chair roles
Party successfully pushes for representation based on election result rather than current Dáil numbers
When is a Soc Dem TD not a Soc Dem TD?
Kerfuffle over the exact status of Eoin Hayes provided light relief on a doomy day of worry about tariffs and the economy
Mothers Against Genocide plan to lodge complaint over treatment by gardaí
Mothers Against Genocide plan to lodge complaint over treatment by gardaí
What are the Garda rules of conduct for policing protests?
Garda policy is to consider non-physical means before using force to resolve public order incidents
Teenager forced to use walker, wheelchair because of endometriosis pain
Dáil hears of women waiting nine years for diagnosis, forced to go abroad for specialised surgical treatment
Temple Street report provides major challenge for new Minister for Health
Elsewhere, Simon Harris is in DC to meet the man who has dubbed Ireland his 'favourite tax scam'
Harris and Martin squirmed as Sinn Féin found an emotive way to expose Government duplicity
It’s a real turn-off for voters when critical issues such as housing crisis and looming trade war have been overshadowed by aggressive and chaotic Dáil scenes
Oireachtas committees due to be operational in a month
New term also indicates a special committee to be convened on artificial intelligence
Miriam Lord: Normal hostilities set aside as colleagues wish Richard Boyd Barrett well
A rare stillness fell on the chamber as TDs and Ministers wished Richard Boyd Barrett well following his cancer diagnosis
Trump tariffs mean volatility and threat of further escalation are the new normal
The Government knows it is in the teeth, already, of the first big thing that will define its term
Shades of an Oasis love-in as Lucinda rolls with Fine Gael’s Gallagher brothers
Quite the occasion for Christine Lagarde, as Paschal Donohoe reacts to Trump’s tough tariffs wondering ‘what we can do that can unite us’
Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy
Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra
Labour and the Social Democrats are now firmly in the orbit of Sinn Féin
Last week’s shouting down of the Ceann Comhairle by Opposition parties have set a dangerous new tone for Irish politics
From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults
The language has become coarser but it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been
Concerns raised about implementing Bill to ban aircraft transiting weapons to Israel
Minister says Senators’ legislation puts ‘legal obligation on State to do something it can’t actually do’
Ireland on alert after Trump imposes tariffs but relieved over pharma exclusion
No specific tariffs for Ireland but fears over loss of competitiveness with the UK and New Zealand on agricultural, food and drink exports.
Miriam Lord: The drama of the Opposition’s walkout lost its potency when government backbenchers also bailed
A few Government buckeroos squawked their disapproval as Mary Lou and her boys made for the double doors to the right of Verona
Teenager weaned off drugs was ‘held down and injected by thugs when he refused to buy from them’
More support needed for young people leaving addiction treatment services, TDs hear
Government must ‘flex legal muscle’ to force religious orders to contribute to redress schemes
Congregations ‘operated as criminal networks in mother and baby homes’, Social Democrats acting leader tells Dáil
Garda defend treatment of Gaza protesters outside Leinster House and deny ‘cavity search’ allegation
Protesters’ claims about searches by gardaí were raised in Dáil by Richard Boyd Barrett
Opposition walks out as new speaking time arrangements start
Independent Carol Nolan takes first ‘other members’ question to Taoiseach
Trump’s tariffs could bring economic shock for Ireland
Donald Trump’s new tariffs could have huge economic impact on Ireland. Meanwhile political class focused only on speaking rights row.
Women protesting outside Leinster House strip-searched, one subjected to cavity search, Dáil hears
TDs protest at Garda treatment, Taoiseach did not understand ‘necessity for any strip-searching’
Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks
Democracy is fragile - the consequences of politicians breaking with parliamentary norms and standards are not just theoretical
Speaking rights row may simmer down following Ceann Comhairle confidence vote
A Government counter motion of confidence in Verona Murphy was comfortably passed by 96 votes to 71
Trump’s tariffs take wrecking ball to perfectly good Dáil row
Ceann Comhairle went to Dunne and Crescenzi during debate, but this was never going to be her last supper
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy bears ‘no ill will’ after winning confidence motion
Taoiseach accused Opposition of ‘mob politics’, while Sinn Féin leader said Verona Murphy’s role was ‘delivered’ by Michael Lowry
Verona Murphy: Motion of confidence in Ceann Comhairle passed in Dáil
Wexford TD says she bears no ill will to those who brought motion and ‘her door is always open’
Controversy over Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy will have three principal consequences
The motion of confidence in Verona Murphy was not without its repercussions
The Irish Times view on Verona Murphy: confidence remains in short supply
The Government will hope the vote brings to a close two months of bitter procedural wrangling but the Ceann Comhairle ‘s job is unlikely to get easier
All households to pay ‘small amount more’ under planned changes to Local Property Tax
New rates of LPT will kick in next year
Sinn Féin TD’s challenge over constitutionality of ‘super junior’ ministers adjourned
Pa Daly argues Bunreacht na hÉireann limits number of government members to 15, including the taoiseach
Confidence vote in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy to be taken at 6.30pm
A three-and-a-half hour debate on motion starts in Dáil this afternoon
Trump tariffs: Ministers brace for chill winds on ‘Liberation Day’
Trade war could see Irish pharmaceuticals fall by 50 per cent, Cabinet to be told
Q&A: Is the Ceann Comhairle confidence motion unprecedented?
The Cabinet is expected to approve the text of the confidence motion on Tuesday morning
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