The Government is to expedite an overhaul of Ireland’s defamation laws in the coming months amid fears Sinn Féin will...
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Jack Chambers’s pursuit of safer roads is motivated by tragedies in his own family. His grandfather, also called Jack...
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said he will raise the international criminal probe into the Kinahan Cartel and the globa...
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The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have rounded on Elon Musk’s X social media site, with Leo Varadkar labelling the online pl...
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Media Minister Catherine Martin has proposed direct taxpayer funding of RTÉ – which would see the TV licence fee abo...
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An internal Fianna Fáil committee will decide on sanctions for two Galway party councillors over their opposition to ...
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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has come under fire for claiming the Government had not contacted the school at th...
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Last June, in the Fine Gael parliamentary party room at Leinster House, Leo Varadkar confronted his critics head on. ...
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Media Minister Catherine Martin is pushing to abolish the TV licence fee and replace it with direct taxpayer funding ...
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has refused to say whether he will continue to lead Fine Gael if the party is forced into oppo...
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The Government will have to push through a controversial and potentially divisive Dáil vote in order to cut welfare p...
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Forcing Ukrainian refugees into private housing could put a strain on renters, Finance Minister Michael McGrath has ...
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Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns — who claimed last week that ministers don’t understand the cost-of-living crisi...
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Nearly two years ago Tony Holohan was a dominant figure in Irish public life as the man chiefly responsible for the C...
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The Government decision to reopen pubs and restaurants in the run up to Christmas three years ago and the subsequent ...
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Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns — who claimed last week that ministers don’t understand the cost-of-living crisi...
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Staff at RTÉ are yet to see the “culture shift” that was promised for the organisation in the wake of the payments co...
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government will not put pressure on RTÉ to sell its Montrose campus in Dublin.
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has criticised RTÉ’s handling of the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal and cast doubt over whethe...
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A new universal media levy that could be cheaper than the TV licence fee and collected by the Revenue Commissioners i...
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An inquiry into the State’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic is set to be announced by the Government before the end...
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TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin has ruled out the reintroduction of an eviction ban this winter, saying it “would do more har...
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Michael McGrath does not fit the mould of a Fianna Fáil finance minister. He is neither venal like Charles Haughey no...
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Support for a Sinn Féin-led government without Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has increased in the last month, with Mary L...
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A growing number of Fianna Fáil TDs and senators privately believe Micheál Martin could resign as Tánaiste next year,...
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‘Seán O’Rourke is an asshole,’ screams the headline of the Sunday Independent’s Life magazine cover from October 2014...
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told his parliamentary party on Wednesday how Fine Gael has a responsibility to take on Sinn F...
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Help for householders to move home loans away from vulture funds are among the Budget measures being explored as the ...
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If self-confidence built homes, Darragh O’Brien would be the most successful housing minister in the history of the S...
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Most politicians, political parties and government departments are not subscribing to Twitter Blue, the social media ...
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The mood around the Cabinet table last Tuesday was said by those present to have been one of shock and revulsion at t...
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The Defence Forces chief of staff and his predecessors assured the Government that robust measures were in place in t...
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For a while it seemed we would not get the public inquiry into how the State handled the Covid-19 pandemic that some ...
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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan is hiring an assistant for one of his own special advisers in a move that will bring hi...
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Households will continue to benefit from the reduced rate of Vat on gas and electricity bills when the Government ann...
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has welcomed former taoiseach Bertie Ahern back into Fianna Fáil, despite forcing him out of ...
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Like a lot of men, Seán Ó Fearghaíl ignored the warning signs. In 2021, the Ceann Comhairle — the chair of the Dáil —...
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin is facing an internal party backlash over his decision not to promote any TDs to the junior m...
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Last Wednesday, Simon Coveney was addressing staff at Ireland’s permanent mission at the UN in New York, where Irelan...
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