Micheál Martin

Taoiseach said party colleagues should concentrate on the benefits of the Shared Island initiative

Financial, housing and healthcare assistance not delivered since Taoiseach issued State apology in February

John Moran said calling for a forum was ‘very clever way’ to take ‘leadership role’ without ruffling feathers

The need for conservation measures on the Co Kildare plains has been recognised for 30 years

Team bus arrived in the city to the sound of Tina Turner’s hit Simply the Best

Restructuring Ireland’s health service was meant to integrate services locally, but concerns have been highlighted by regional managers and the HSE board

The Government jet carrying Kinahan departed Al Maktoum International Airport this morning and landed at Casement Aerodrome shortly after 6.30pm

Prize livestock, baking stalls, best-dressed farmers and hundreds of commercial stands among attractions

‘Aggressive’ denunciation of any suggested changes to security policies is ‘getting worse’

Candidate countries hope for progress after years of inaction, but some in Brussels are still uncertain about enlargement

Taoiseach says model that State has supported for 60 years is likely to disappear

Dublin Simon Community says facility at Usher’s Island could, in addition to other benefits, help ease hospital overcrowding

Admiration for cult of violence that motivated some 1916 leaders has warped popular understanding of our history for far too long, permeating popular culture

‘Nothing confirmed’ over possible Trump visit for Irish Open, Micheál Martin says as he attends fleadh in Belfast

Katie Byrne, who has cerebral palsy, hopes to be walking by Christmas after specialist surgery in Florida

Newly released correspondence shows Kerry politicians’ contacts with Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the time of fuel protests

John Moran’s time in office marked by clashes, in particular one concerning passage of Limerick’s corporate plan

City and county council’s corporate plan passed by councillors in John Moran’s absence

More than 50,000 people crossed into the Spanish territory from Morocco on Thursday and Friday

US president to attend Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg and likely to meet Taoiseach in Dublin

To mark International Twins Day we spoke to twins and parents of twins, including a woman who has given birth to three sets

Micheál Martin is a ‘deliverist’ at heart; Harris, by contrast, does things, tells people about them, shows he is doing them – on repeat

Plus: Maggie O’Farrell fan Justice Kagan, Micheál Martin’s gamer protegés and two jobs putting out fires

We still don’t know where 19 mothers and 859 infants associated with Bessborough were buried, Conall Ó Fatharta says

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Catherine Connolly, Micheál Martin, Rachel Zegler and more pay tribute following death of Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard

Ten people died in 2022 Donegal explosion at an Applegreen filling station after suspected gas leak

‘We’re going into four years, there’s no answers whatsoever,’ says mother of 14-year-old Leona Harper, who died in the explosion

German leader placed subtle pressure on Taoiseach to assist his goal of slashing bloc’s spending by several hundred billion euro

On sanctions for Israel, Friedrich Merz says ‘we don’t want to, we won’t do it, we cannot do it’

Worrying gap between Minister’s statement and what is actually in report

In the News podcast: Taoiseach arrived in Kyiv at the end of a week of political turbulence in Ukraine

As the Taoiseach eyes the exit and the unity debate gets louder, the current calm in Irish politics may not last

Ham-fisted attempt to manage tensions had backfired

Aughinish Alumina inquiry not ‘definitive’ if plant was supplying Russian military or not, Taoiseach says during Kyiv visit

‘You look at all those young faces... we have to be always conscious of what the people of Ukraine are suffering,’ Martin says on official visit

Burial place of more than 800 children from Cork mother and baby home remains unknown

Fresh sanctions targeting Russia need to be ‘robust and targeted’, Micheál Martin says

Action over new payment model led to thousands of criminal cases being adjourned in courts across the country

The rot starts in tiny ways. Old taboos against public cursing and crude language fall away and soon a leader calls a poor country a ‘shithole’