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If Government lacks moral courage on Israel is it just Palestine that will suffer?

Government and FAI have unique opportunity to lead, as Ireland did in the face of South African apartheid

Employment in tech sector rose at steepest rate for a year in May despite Meta cuts

Year-ahead outlook ‘improved further’, according to AIB data, despite fears of job displacement from AI

Lidl claims planning system is being exploited by rival

Supermarket chain wants measures similar to fast-tracking of large infrastructure projects

Taoiseach proposes referendum to create new ministerial office for maritime issues

Micheál Martin said ‘there’s something missing where we don’t have a stronger department of the marine’

Michael Healy-Rae says brother Danny’s interview effectively sacked him as minister of state

Kerry TD, who resigned as junior minister following fuel protests, says Danny’s interview effectively sacked him and ‘damaged Team Healy-Rae'

Occupied Territories Bill shows a modicum of self-restraint

Now the Irish Government should cease meddling in Middle East affairs

What’s going on at Gript, Ireland’s answer to Fox News?

Financial pressure, a sexual harassment allegation and an editor resigning after he claimed to be subject to anti-Semitic bullying

Harris pushes back on claim Irish housing crisis among ‘most severe’ in Europe

Housing poses challenge across EU, Harris says at turning of sod on 410-home scheme in Cork

School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again

Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS

Summer programme applications for children with complex needs to reopen after ‘botched’ launch

Opposition says decision to open online applications portal for nine days only was ‘deeply unfair and badly handled’

Frugals no more? Europe’s budget hawks try on a ‘moderniser’ makeover

Coalition known as Europe’s frugals try to rebrand as ‘modernisers’ in upcoming EU budget fight

Coalition to oppose restrictions on adverts for zero-alcohol drinks

Cabinet agrees to oppose Social Democrats’ proposal aimed at closing alcohol advertising ‘loophole’

‘Really disappointing’: Institutional abuse survivor advocate ‘hugely frustrated’ by redress scheme

Patricia Carey says €15,000 is ‘the price for forcible removal of a child from their family’

Household supports in Budget 2027 must be temporary and target most vulnerable, says IMF

Coalition must broaden tax base by closing ‘VAT gap’ and increasing property tax take

Carlingford Lough ferry service suspended for 2026

Cross-Border ferry service linking Louth and Down will not operate this year

Galway West count: Full byelection results data

Follow results as they emerge from the Galway West byelection count

Dublin Central count: Full byelection results data

Follow results as they emerge from the Dublin Central byelection count

Danny Healy-Rae looks very well for a man who saw Dev stand up to Churchill

The Kerry TD, who has always voted against legislation to outlaw bloodsports, is very fond of the Irish hare too

UK’s ‘generational ban’ on tobacco will give Dublin a headache

Effect will be to raise the current age limit of 18 by one year every year, until smoking dies out with the last of its adherents

Simon Harris’s brand of middle-class populism leads to bad decisions

VAT cut for hospitality and low-tax investment accounts are hardly responsible amid current economic uncertainty

‘He gets a bit of enjoyment out of the power’: Is this man now Ireland’s most powerful civil servant?

Have new curbs on spending made top Department of Public Expenditure official David Moloney Ireland’s most powerful civil servant?

Irish diplomats were warned about ‘approaches’ from Big Tobacco

Warning issued by senior Irish official to more than 280 diplomatic staff in Brussels

The delegates’ views: Fianna Fáil members say ‘leadership in waiting is very patient’

Party faithful give mixed views on Micheál Martin’s tenure, with no obvious challenger emerging amid concerns it is ‘difficult to find a TD who spans the generations’

‘Powerful and heartbreaking’: A couch is what Ireland’s homeless children say they want most

Focus Ireland says the desires of children in homelessness accommodation – for more space, better beds and sheets, and that staff don’t shout at them – are ‘very basic’ demands

Social partnership can work – but not if it becomes another magic ATM for public servants

We can’t have all the short-term solutions we want and all the long-term investment we want

Government approves €750,000 support scheme for businesses and groups impacted by Waterford fire

Under the scheme businesses can apply for up to €30,000 in funding

Fifty ways Ireland can leave fossil fuels behind set out to Government

Proposals from Friends of the Earth say public backs the move but supports are needed

Government urged to impose sanctions on Israel in same way De Valera did on Italy in 1935

Richard Boyd Barrett introduces Bill to sanction Israel, break off ‘all economic trade, financial relations’

Government accused of ‘stroke’ over retrospective use of force rules for Defence Forces

Sinn Féin accuses Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan of trying to ‘make legal’ remarks made during fuel protests

Public sector pay increases under local bargaining to be processed within weeks, Taoiseach says

Micheál Martin ‘up for’ talks on new agreement as union boss signals deal may prove difficult

Dáil rejects Social Democrats abortion reform Bill

Two Government Ministers abstain while three backbenchers support move to committee stage

Stop demonising one-off rural housing. Not everyone wants to be surrounded by neighbours

If town and village life is so much more sensible and attractive, why do so few people choose to live over the shop?

NTMA to raise €2bn in bond sale to leave most of full-year funding covered

Agency entered this year facing €15 billion in debt maturities that needed to be refinanced

Cork’s Counting House complex to house new city library after €35m purchase

Former Beamish and Crawford site will replace existing Grand Parade library, which opened in 1930

Children now ‘struggle to grasp basic concepts’: Teachers’ views on screen time

Smartphone use is ‘most concerning issue’ parents are ‘reluctant’ to confront, says principal

Waterford fire response to dominate weekly Cabinet meeting

Agenda to include means of supporting 40 businesses affected by blaze

Ireland’s nuclear debate generates a lot of hot air but no clean energy

There’s little serious analysis making the case for nuclear power in Ireland as part of energy and climate policy

Chambers tries to play bad cop on spending while corporate tax receipts flow in

Spending last year came in €4bn beyond what the Government sanctioned in previous budget

O’Callaghan calls for a cut in the 52% marginal rate of tax

Fianna Fáil minister says tax rate is ‘imprudent, demoralising and contrary to the common good’

‘They’re nice people but ...’: Is public funding of news media its saviour or threatening its freedom?

Funding by State’s media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, aims to address crisis that threatens liberal democracy

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