Mary Lou McDonald

Mary Lou McDonald says bail situation ‘cannot continue’ as 40,348 suspects were on bail last year

Leaders of Labour Party, Sinn Féin, Green Party and Social Democrats, as well as a representative from People Before Profit, expected to attend talks on Wednesday

Sinn Féin has faced criticism for its tributes to Brendan McFarlane, who died last month

He became a firm supporter of the peace process

From Dáil speaking rights row to the German elections, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up

Fiery Dáil exchanges over impasse as promise of solution dubbed a ‘con’

Ceann Comhairle tells Micheál Martin to stop carrying on like a child following goading by Pearse Doherty over Michael Lowry

Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane led a mass break-out in September 1983

In the North, Sinn Féin has stumbled into a trap; it has been able to hold on to the position of First Minister only by virtue of doing very little with it

Charlie Flanagan describes tribute as ‘nauseating’

Mary Lou McDonald said she could not visit while there was a threat of mass expulsion hanging over the Palestinian people

Bernard Jackman correction, confusion around a Love/Hate revival and Michael O’Leary’s former Russian tenants

Government proposals to resolve row over speaking rights ‘utterly unacceptable and will not be tolerated’

Department of Housing is considering changes to exempt free-standing modular or cabin-style homes from planning permission

Minister of State John Cummins says proposal would allow more people to live independently

Michéal Martin said SF leader ‘ag insint bréaga’ in Dáil

Ministers expected on Monday to discuss creation of ‘clearing office’ with aim to clear blockages in system and co-ordinate homebuilding and servicing of zoned lands

Call for elite squad of Ministers to be taught to watch their tongues before targetting Donald Trump in Operation Blarney

Government response to housing debate ‘could have been written by ChatGPT’, Labour claims

Danny Healy-Rae goes solo on Opposition benches after the old band breaks up, and watches his brother Michael hurry around the Government benches

Father had died in front of his family, says Sinn Féin’s Rose Conway-Walsh, adding ‘That is the tragedy of it. That is how urgent this is’

Taoiseach insists ‘no attempt to deceive’ but he is ‘extremely disappointed’ completions less than official 33,000 target

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy sought to end impasse but Michael Lowry is not ready to let matter rest

It is not clear how to address the conundrum that confronted the party at the last election

Government plan is ‘total arrogance’ on the back of a ‘grubby deal’, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says

Women junior Ministers were placed in the front row at the Leinster House photocall but it fooled no one, as just six of the 23 appointees are women

It is the less predictable events that will present the biggest problems for the Coalition

Committee to consider wording of a new amendment to Dáil rules to break gridlock over ongoing row around Regional Independent Group

Reports of a major clear-out were greatly exaggerated. The party’s frontbench looks very familiar

A number of senior TDs will remain in their existing portfolios

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said there were the same number of Ministers with the name James as there were women

Cabinet criticised as ‘very male’ with only three women as full ministers, down one from last time

Simon Harris becomes Minister for Foreign Affairs as Jim O'Callaghan takes justice portfolio

Chaotic scenes in the chamber unfold around coalition of Tweedledum, Tweedledee and Tweedledeal

Election of new taoiseach and government proves impossible as Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy forced to suspend the House repeatedly

Government-supporting Independents to speak from Dáil opposition benches during election of taoiseach

Successful applicants will supply their pouch for a one-year period with the option to extend by a further year

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said tribunal findings were ‘very clear’

As Sinn Féin heads into next Dáil, it faces a crucial moment in its quest for growth, power and delivering on its mission of seismic change

McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Gerry Adams took turns carrying strategist and negotiator’s coffin to Belfast cemetery