Fine Gael

The latest news, analysis and comment on Irish political party Fine Gael

What’s in Fine Gael’s plan for a united Ireland?

Simon Harris promised a ‘blueprint for a unified island’ but the extent to which Fine Gael’s leadership has been keeping details of a key document under wraps has caused irritation

Ray McAdam tipped to win Seanad byelection as rival fails to get Sinn Féin backing

Opposition vote is split between independent candidates Maeve O’Rourke and Caitlín Ní Bhroin

Is there an identity crisis in Fine Gael?

Grassroots motion calling for party to affirm its centre-right credentials rejected as Democrats’ US midterm victory creates fresh questions for Ireland

Fine Gael has forgotten its purpose. It doesn’t need ‘renewal’ – it needs an identity

No other political party communicates so much while saying so little, or has become so disconnected from its faithful

Fine Gael motion to distinguish party from ‘woke left’ rejected for ardfheis

Motion sought to affirm party as centre right in ‘European Christian Democratic tradition’

Aengus Ó Snodaigh bid for Dáil statement not accepted, Sinn Féin says

Ceann Comhairle felt unable to accommodate request from chairman of Liberty Recycling

Jim O’Callaghan under pressure after High Court ruling on criminal legal aid

Inside Politics: Talks with criminal solicitors are due to continue following critical High Court judgment

Many people unsure of what Fine Gael stands for, party finds

Commission for Renewal of the party says it needs a clear and shared understanding of why it exists

Patrick O’Donovan was consulted on who would replace him as Minister while on sick leave

Government statement also indicated that O’Donovan did not have a veto over the decision

Fine Gael considers ‘AI dividend tax credit’ for businesses

Party TD James Geoghegan proposes citizens’ assembly on technology’s trade-offs

Ó Snodaigh seeks Dáil time to make statement on Liberty Recycling

Ó Snodaigh, who is not under investigation himself, is the chairman of the charity that is the subject of a Garda money-laundering inquiry

Remembering Gerry Collins: he knew a Fine Gael voter when he heard one

Late Fianna Fáil TD and minister made memorable visit to Carndonagh in the 1990s

Minister Patrick O’Donovan to temporarily step down from portfolio

The Fine Gael minister will remain at Cabinet, but colleague Peter Burke will assume his responsibilities

The Irish Times view on Micheál Martin’s constitutional initiative: a positive development

The planis of a piece with the Taoiseach’s well-advertised antipathy to premature action

Simon Harris cannot have enjoyed reading Sunday’s newspapers

Next weekend’s ardfheis has become party leader’s most important test since general election

Liberty Recycling: Fine Gael asks PAC chair to summon Charities Regulator and others

Charity is under Garda investigation for alleged money laundering

If Patrick O’Donovan’s behaviour was ill-judged, Simon Harris’s has been plain peculiar

Controversy between Simon Harris and Patrick O’Donovan was a badly handled storm in a teacup

Simon Harris seeks to draw line under O’Donovan phone call – but where does it leave us?

Tánaiste has had his say and the shutters have been pulled down, leaving big questions unanswered

Harris says ‘hurtful’ anonymous comments questioning O’Donovan’s performance should never recur

Tánaiste refuses to be drawn on details of phone call to Minister for Communications

Taoiseach criticises assertion Irish unity is ‘inevitable’ as he promises new initiative

Micheál Martin lays out how he believes the unity agenda could be advanced, something he has been reluctant to do in the past

Woman (80s) dies from suspected smoke inhalation following fire at her home in east Cork

Woman pronounced dead at scene following fire believed to involve fabric items

Ireland’s left has failed to penalise government for decades of inaction but the right has

Political failure around protests is a result of the left being unable to take Irish economic dysfunction and turn it into a larger project of reform

What the British budget tells us about Irish politics

The traditional dividing lines have returned to Westminster. In Ireland, things look rather different

No link between healthcare staff recruitment and hospital performance, says Minister

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill compares Cork to Beaumont, where fewer patients are on trolleys

Darragh O’Brien backs Phil Hogan for key UN post despite pushing for his resignation in Golfgate row

Minister for the Environment says Covid-era golfgate controversy that cost EU commissioner his job ‘is done’

Germany offers a stark vision of Ireland’s possible future

As debate raged in Brussels about dependence on US tech firms, Google celebrated Ireland’s EU presidency

Triple lock Bill passes Dáil vote amid Opposition anger

Government narrowly wins vote on proposed legislation removing need for UN approval of Irish troop deployments

Jim O’Callaghan reiterates claim that solicitors are targeting rape cases

Minister faces backlash for saying rape trials were only cases ‘deliberately’ targeted by striking solicitors

Triple lock neutrality row fuels fractious Dáil exchanges

Opposition parties raise signs with Save Neutrality message after Taoiseach and Sinn Féin leader trade political blows

Minister for Justice accused of ‘grossly unfair commentary’ over rape cases

O’Callaghan criticised for saying ‘only cases deliberately affected by withdrawal of services in Central Criminal Court yesterday were those involving allegations of rape’

Senior civil servant to take charge of department during Patrick O’Donovan’s sick leave

Minister for Communications remains in hospital, but is to return to duties when he recovers

Caveat aware: Ronan McGreevy on the speech that sparked a president’s resignation

Paddy Donegan was defence minister 50 years ago when he uttered two words that made political history

‘Leave my health out of it’: Anonymous briefings, a defiant response and a dramatic turn of events

Patrick O’Donovan characterises anonymous Fine Gael party briefings on health as ‘sad day for Irish politics’

Gardaí release description of man found dead in Mallow as investigation upgraded to murder

Garda Commissioner appeals for witnesses after body of man in his 50s found on Co Cork riverbank

As the fight over the next EU budget intensifies, what’s in it for Ireland?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Feed-the-World Phil Hogan has his eye on a €225,000 job

It is not enough to save the state, or Europe. It is time now for multi-options Phil to feed the world

How a former Nato chief cashed in on the big business of lobbying for foreign governments

Critics say the perception of a revolving door between politics and lobbying undermines public trust in those who hold power

Addictive online features should be disabled by default, report on use by children finds

Blanket social media ban for under-16s would ‘unlikely provide’ comprehensive solution to harms

Academic and lawyer Maeve O’Rourke to run for Seanad

Byelection will be decided solely by TDs and Senators, suggesting she will likely need support from Government parties

Patrick O’Donovan remains in intensive care after taking ill on Tuesday

Minister has previously spoken about his experience living with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with more than 10 years ago

With so much cash sloshing around, why is there a housing crisis?

Why is the HSE underfunded, and why aren’t there decent rail services between Dublin and Rosslare?

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