Fine Gael

Proposal will abolish compulsory three-day wait for access

Abortion may not be the defining social and political issue it once was, but securing a change to reproductive rights would still be significant

Little explanation of Coalition support for Opposition’s bid to remove key clause from draft law Harris said ‘has to count for something’

Rioters focused their cruel fury on people of colour, whose ancestors were once fellow subjects of the crown

Micheál Martin says Bill should go to committee stage; Government TDs will have free vote as a ‘matter of conscience’

Government establishing trail with native tree, information panel at each ancestral site, literary guides for adults and children

National Economic Dialogue forum used to stress need for restraint and sustainable fiscal management

Every party in Dáil favours a united Ireland and subject is not owned by Sinn Féin, says Simon Harris

Inside Politics: Fuel prices, public pay and derelict sites all feature on a busy political agenda

One person who spoiled their vote in Urlingford wrote on the ballot paper: ‘I would rather vote for Hitler than vote for a Tipperary man’

Irish savers could soon plough billions into a tax-efficient, State-backed vehicle. But can the media-savvy Tánaiste deliver?

Men met in York in February 2002 and were paid hundreds of thousands of pounds months later by Lowry and O’Brien

Government to introduce new tax out of ‘frustration ... and some bit of anger’, Tánaiste says

Fine Gael leader says planning for constitutional change ‘must involve listening to all traditions’

The danger of Ireland’s reliance on a few big companies rises ever higher -but Irish politics does not want to know

Three months on from revelations and there is no clear response to deeply uncomfortable situation around Co Limerick plant

Almost 319,000 homes in arrears with electricity bills by the end of March, says energy regulator

Representative to be at port of entry within one hour of unaccompanied children being reported

Trade in contentious product not restricted by European Union sanctions against Russia

Fine Gael choose populism over real leadership with savings plan

Stand-off arose it emerged consultants on public-only contracts were allowed to treat private patients at the hospital despite a direction not to do so

Sligo developer Cathal O’Connor faces two years in prison for violent assault on three teenagers

Row raging since 2021 when senior EirGrid executive noted voracious appetite for power, now at 20% of Republic’s electricity

Multinationals reveal extent of remittance to Ireland for first time, exposing reliance on big tech and pharma

Coalition urged to complete Aughinish Alumina investigation without delay

Confirmation that public consultation would mark first step in introducing benefit, but no time frame for launch

Fianna Fáil to speak with Hildegarde Naughton over lack of educational pathway for Irish speakers

What your columnist lays bare is that Sinn Féin is a pragmatic party

Figure emerges as Taoiseach argues sanctioning Aughinish Alumina would cause more harm to EU than Russia

Devoid of critical integration, our State retains no institutional memory, as lessons from failures remain trapped inside whichever department or agency handles it

Fianna Fáil, the largest political party, bombed in the byelections but divisions among the left-wing parties drew most attention

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Cllr Eoin O’Driscoll rejects Aontú claim concerning conflict of interest

Dublin Central and Galway West byelections show centre ground in Irish politics is capable of responding to threats from either left or right

Galway West and Dublin Central votes suggest emergence of significant electoral force to the right of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

As Irish politics becomes more fragmented and unstable, a merger of FF and FG starts to make sense

Ireland is far from showing what Taoiseach calls ‘leadership in supporting Palestine’

Remarks on WhatsApp, swiftly deleted, were made as a joke by Carlow councillor Brian O’Donoghue

A new way of doing things helped lift Ireland out of the doldrums in the 1980s. We need another today

Heady mix of exhaustion, triumph and disaster is not just a thrilling media narrative but a component of Irish political culture

Taoiseach accused of reneging on promises to prohibit all trade with settlements