‘Cries of the innocent will haunt us forever if we stay silent’: Varadkar condemns Israel’s attack on Gaza during US visit Leo Varadkar makes what is seen as one of his most forceful condemnations of Israel’s continued onslaught on GazaMon Mar 11 2024 - 23:15
St Patrick’s Day: Varadkar to visit Boston, Washington DC during week-long US trip Taoiseach will hold talks with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and visit Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red SoxMon Mar 11 2024 - 13:40
The rise of rural solar farms: A new gold rush meets the wild west of runaway developmentsA battery of new solar farms planned for Co Meath has led to sparks flying among locals who are divided on their benefits and their negative effects on nature and biodiversitySun Mar 10 2024 - 06:00
Free schoolbooks for 210,000 second-level students from this autumnMinister will bring memo to Cabinet seeking approval to give free books to junior cycle students in non fee-paying schoolsMon Mar 04 2024 - 20:03
Fianna Fáil to run three candidates in Midlands-North-West where it has not had MEP since 2014Senators Lisa Chambers and Niall Blaney added to the ticket alongside convention winner Barry CowenThu Feb 29 2024 - 21:12
National Party fails in bid to be granted ‘approved body’ status in referendumsFringe group is only one of six parties that applied that was not granted approved-body status by Electoral CommissionWed Feb 28 2024 - 21:01
Fine Gael losses, Sinn Féin gains? Predicting the unpredictable European electionsHigh-profile candidates are contesting seats for the bigger parties, but differing attitudes to second-tier elections can throw up unexpected resultsTue Feb 27 2024 - 07:00
Names mentioned as possible successors to Siún Ní Raghallaigh as RTÉ chairman or womanAccomplished names in media, independent television sector and academic world linked with vacant roleTue Feb 27 2024 - 06:00
Former senior official not due to attend Oireachtas committee hearing on RTÉ chair’s resignationDivergence remains between accounts given by RTÉ and the Department of Media on when broadcaster’s policy on severance packages for departing executives changedMon Feb 26 2024 - 19:41
RTÉ may be brought within remit of Comptroller and Auditor GeneralVaradkar tells Fine Gael move would allow RTÉ finances to be scrutinised by Public Accounts CommitteeThu Feb 22 2024 - 08:44
RTÉ saga prompts turf war between Oireachtas committees‘The idea witnesses would come in today before one committee and another tomorrow to answer the same questions is patently ridiculous’Thu Feb 22 2024 - 07:38
State’s public debt continues to fall since pandemic peakBorrowings of €42,000 per person remain among highest in developed world, says Department of Finance’s annual reportWed Feb 21 2024 - 19:35
Von der Leyen’s Israel visit unlikely to deter Ireland from supporting second term – McGrathEuropean Commission president pledged unequivocal support for Israel in comments criticised in irelandWed Feb 21 2024 - 15:55
RTÉ in a ‘straitjacket’ by agreeing to confidential exit payment clauses, says Minister for FinanceMichael McGrath said that Government demanded and expected transparency from RTÉWed Feb 21 2024 - 14:53
Government pledges €600m to A5, 20 years after it pledged €600m to A5RTÉ's latest controversy rumbles on as politicians clamour for transparency over confidentialityWed Feb 21 2024 - 08:28
Shared Island initiative: Casement Park and A5 upgrade among projects in line for €1bn State fundingCommitments include hourly Dublin-Belfast train service and represents ‘investing in people, in quality of life, in opportunity’Tue Feb 20 2024 - 16:15
Death of Michael O’Regan: The loss of a dear colleagueTributes to Michael O’Regan an illustration of his standing over decades in Leinster HouseTue Feb 20 2024 - 07:55
Little prospect of RTÉ exit package details becoming public, Bakhurst saysDirector general in a ‘quite unusual’ position with some politicians effectively asking him to break law and reveal confidential informationMon Feb 19 2024 - 17:24
50 years of the Healy-Rae dynasty: Flat caps, populist politics and hard workThey've been ‘incredibly good at PR. Thatcher had Saatchi & Saatchi. The Healy-Raes had the Healy-Raes’Fri Feb 09 2024 - 12:55
Watchdog warns hitting Ireland’s climate targets by 2030 could cost State €6bnIrish Fiscal Advisory Council estimates that electrification of vehicle fleet, retrofitting, and agriculture will be costliest areasThu Feb 08 2024 - 11:41
Measles outbreak threat triggers plan for catch-up vaccinations for young adults Minister for Health to brief Cabinet on concerns about transmission of disease in wake of HSE warningTue Feb 06 2024 - 06:00
Gardaí to get powers to seize digital and online evidence under law to be approved by CabinetMinister for Justice Helen McEntee will tell colleagues that new Bill will allow gardaí target criminal evidence retained on online servers ‘in the cloud’Tue Feb 06 2024 - 06:00
Barry Cowen narrowly selected as Fianna Fáil European election candidate in keenly contested conventionOffaly TD edged out nearest rival by 70 votes in Mullingar countMon Feb 05 2024 - 22:28
State bodies have sued another State body 20 times since 2021Chief State Solicitor has said that cases represent a very small proportion of the thousands of case files opened by her office each yearMon Feb 05 2024 - 06:00
Registrar of Political Parties to rule on which faction of the National Party can use its name for elections Party founder Justin Barrett has challenged his removal as party leader in a bitter row that has included a dispute over the ownership of gold bars worth €400,000Mon Feb 05 2024 - 06:00
Varadkar and Sunak to visit Belfast in wake of restored powersharing at StormontTaoiseach and UK prime minister to hold bilateral talks while in Northern IrelandSun Feb 04 2024 - 18:05
‘We are the mainstream’: The rise of anti-immigration sentiment in new political partiesImmigration has become a pressing issue in Irish politics, but will that lead to electoral gains for the far right?Sat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin to finally get its hands on the prize almost two years after winning North electionsYour essential end-of-week politics catch up, from the imminent return of Stormont to the text that downed MercosurFri Feb 02 2024 - 13:58
RTÉ pay controversy: PAC to request former director general Dee Forbes attend final hearingsCommittee chair says two latest reports into broadcaster’s voluntary exit programmes highlighted ‘urgency of Ms Forbes attending’Thu Feb 01 2024 - 18:19
Asylum reform plans to clamp down on applicants who already have refugee status in another European stateHelen McEntee outlines plans to clamp down on those who already have refugee status in another European state and to extend list of ‘safe’ countriesWed Jan 31 2024 - 06:05
New measures aimed at asylum seekers from ‘safe’ countries could result in 5,000 applicants leaving StateMinister for Justice Helen McEntee has added Algeria and Botwana to the ‘safe’ country list and disclosed that Nigeria and Pakistan were considered but were not deemed ‘safe’Tue Jan 30 2024 - 15:51
Failed asylum applicants to be deported on dedicated flights chartered by StateMove aims to ‘normalise’ deportations and is one of several immigration crackdowns announced by GovernmentTue Jan 30 2024 - 12:42
Minister ‘frustrated’ at Ryanair’s bulk-purchase of homes at north Dublin estateDarragh O’Brien says 500 people a week are drawing down loans for their first homesMon Jan 29 2024 - 22:18
HSE pays €5.5m each year for storing PPEThe storage costs cover PPE masks and gowns, hand gel, as well as needles and syringes for vaccinesMon Jan 15 2024 - 05:00
On the road with Eamon Ryan: ‘You realise we are not as bad as we seem on social media to each other’The Green Party leader Eamon Ryan aims to meet every councillor in Ireland in an attempt to dispel the belief that the Greens don’t represent the interests of rural peopleSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
New Farmers Alliance party policies include immigration crackdown and opposition to green measuresParty founder Liam McLaughlin has said that it has identified 40 possible local election candidates alreadyFri Jan 12 2024 - 21:28
Taoiseach hopes ICJ makes interim ceasefire order while deliberating on Israel genocide caseSinn Féin TD says Ireland should have made itself a party to South African proceedings over GazaThu Jan 11 2024 - 17:18
Helen McEntee denies Government ‘backed down’ on asylum seeker housing after protestsTense protests in Carlow against the accommodation of males as Department makes ‘abrupt’ change to take families insteadThu Jan 11 2024 - 08:58
Judgment of International Court of Justice against Israel will be ‘severe’ unless it immediately stops onslaught of Gaza, says Ryan Minister for Climate Action says key sections of evidence being presented in case taken by South Africa against Israel are ‘irrefutable’Wed Jan 10 2024 - 18:21
New cycle routes to cover 3,500km across State by 2040 at a cost of €1.4bn National Cycle Network will link over 200 settlements across 26 counties and will be available to 2.8m peopleWed Jan 10 2024 - 13:10
Average wait time for public patients to see a consultant fell by two months last yearAn average wait of more than seven months still in store for patients despite decline in waiting listsTue Jan 09 2024 - 00:01
Ballinrobe hotel will house families instead of single male asylum seekers, department confirmsProtests had been ongoing at JJ Gannon’s Hotel since announcement it would house male asylum seekersMon Jan 08 2024 - 13:52
Judge convicted of sexual offence should not be allowed serve on bench, says ex-minister for justice Such a conviction serious enough to merit exclusion from judicial activity for life, according to Fine Gael’s Charles FlanaganThu Jan 04 2024 - 19:00
Ireland’s Charles and Diana wedding ‘snub’ along with five other curious tales Finding a ‘face-saving’ name for the new NI police force; Trinity College Dublin takes offence; and Casement’s ‘black diaries’Fri Dec 29 2023 - 16:00
Irish government ruled out McAleese meeting with loyalist protesters at Catholic schoolState papers: Ahern viewed riots and disturbances around Holy Cross school in 2001 as sign of a ‘deeper malaise’ in Northern IrelandFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Queen wrote to Mary Robinson to share ‘distress’ over Somalia crisisState papers: After visiting refugee camps in Somalia the president gave an emotional press conference in which she criticised the UN’s approach to the camps and did not hide her anger about conditionsFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Peter Mandelson viewed by Irish officials as ‘arrogant’ in public but ‘insecure in private’State papers: An MP colleague also remarked that Mandelson’s tunnel vision was his greatest strength and his greatest weaknessFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Weapons monitor group threatened to quit over lack of progress by IRA and other paramilitariesState papers: Canadian diplomat could not understand how ‘someone of Gerry Adams’s intellect’ failed to recognise benefits to Sinn Féin of decommissioningFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Priest brought Biafra refugees to Wicklow without permission – and other strange tales from Dublin and London filesRecords released by Irish and British archives include details of a ‘republican’ artefact thief and a ‘radical’ UK proposal to hold asylum seekers on a Scottish islandFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Government focused on keeping ‘decent gap’ between pay and jobseeker’s supportTaoiseach says coalition also wants to continue progress in eliminating ‘traps’ that de-incentivise workThu Dec 28 2023 - 06:27
