Builders discuss the housing crisis: ‘If this was health, the patients would all be dead’Pat Leahy: Builders say the dire situation is not being treated as the emergency it isSat Apr 29 2023 - 02:55
President condemns ‘obsession’ with economic growthIn reception for think tank Tasc, Michael D Higgins condemned ‘neo-liberalism’ and urged country to ‘rebalance economy, ecology and ethics’Fri Apr 28 2023 - 19:40
President, Taoiseach and SF’s Michelle O’Neill to attend King Charles’ coronation O’Neill said gesture demonstrated her commitment to advancing peace and reconciliationWed Apr 26 2023 - 15:27
Niall Collins faces demands to answer TDs’ questions over Limerick property purchaseCoalition leaders criticise but ultimately back junior minister as opposition TDs say law was breachedTue Apr 25 2023 - 21:29
Opposition condemns Government’s plans for public neutrality debatesForums on foreign and defence policy to take place in JuneTue Apr 25 2023 - 19:35
Niall Collins statement on Limerick property unlikely to silence questions Junior minister responds to series of stories published by The Ditch website about his wife’s purchase of a property in LimerickMon Apr 24 2023 - 21:59
Former Fine Gael TD Hugh Byrne dies Dr Byrne was a TD for Dublin North-West from 1969 to 1982Mon Apr 24 2023 - 21:27
Corporation tax surge: People forget that in the story of the boy who cried wolf, the wolf turns upGovernment didn’t expect the surge in corporation tax in the first place, so they are probably wise not to assume it will continue.Sat Apr 22 2023 - 05:00
Oireachtas committee to seek further hearings on botched Tony Holohan appointment after fractious Watt sessionOireachtas committee members were ‘shocked’ after a fractious session with Department of Health secretary general Robert WattFri Apr 21 2023 - 05:00
Abortion review to recommend sweeping changes to existing law Recommendations for widespread changes by report chair expected to reignite debate on abortion provision in IrelandFri Apr 21 2023 - 05:00
Proposals for subsidies totalling up to €600m to encourage apartment buildingDevelopers would have to set aside homes for cost rental under plans being worked on by GovernmentThu Apr 20 2023 - 14:04
Odds stacked against a new farmers’ partyMany independents unlikely to give up control over their own voteWed Apr 19 2023 - 19:32
Feast of public finances increases pressure on Government to spendInside Politics: Dowdall questions will keep coming for Sinn Féin; Greens take soft approach to reducing private car usageWed Apr 19 2023 - 07:41
Giveaway budget likely after latest ‘windfall’ corporate tax forecastReceipts will help equip Coalition with cash surplus as pressure for spending hikes growsWed Apr 19 2023 - 01:00
Kevin Bakhurst appointed as new RTÉ director generalFormer news and current affairs boss returns in top job and was ‘unanimous choice’ of boardTue Apr 18 2023 - 12:35
Surplus of over €16bn estimated for State for next yearStability Programme Update is due to be briefed to Ministers at Tuesday’s Cabinet meetingTue Apr 18 2023 - 11:54
Fallout from Hutch acquittal will roll on today with questions likely to followInside Politics: As the Dáil returns, Government to publish economic projections that include large surplusTue Apr 18 2023 - 07:46
Over €8 billion in budgetary surplus likely to be forecast for State Stability Programme Update expected to indicate corporation tax receipts for year will exceed 2022′s €22.6bnTue Apr 18 2023 - 01:00
Robert Watt likely to face questions at Dáil committee over botched Holohan appointmentDepartment of Health’s top civil servant to make appearance at Oireachtas Committee on WednesdayTue Apr 18 2023 - 01:00
Uncivil war among top officials on botched Holohan appointment to Trinity College DublinLong-delayed Department of Health report strongly critical of appointment process last yearMon Apr 17 2023 - 15:30
‘Biden was magnificently late for nearly everything’: How US president’s Ireland trip unfoldedUS president’s visit is a timely reminder for all on our island that this special relationship and the friendship that flows from it mattersSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Pat Leahy: The Ulster-Scots lost America. Northern Ireland unionism faces a similar fate White House commitment to the Belfast Agreement and Windsor Framework suggests unionists must reflect on that significant factSat Apr 15 2023 - 00:00
Pat Leahy: Three key messages emerge from third day of Biden’s visitThe US president skipped his way though the day with obvious delight and no little energyThu Apr 13 2023 - 20:58
Public sector pay game is now afoot but deal over summer seems unlikelyMinisters will preach restraint but Coalition leaders will see an election coming on to the horizonThu Apr 13 2023 - 05:30
Teachers’ union calls for ‘Dublin allowance’ on top of salary Talks on a new public sector pay agreement set to start before summerThu Apr 13 2023 - 05:00
Biden in Ireland: ‘It feels like home’ - Biden ends first day of visit with a family reunionUS president hails Belfast Agreement saying landmark peace deal ‘shifted the political gravity in our world’Thu Apr 13 2023 - 00:03
Pat Magner, former Labour senator and national organiser, dies aged 82Cork-born man was a key member of Dick Spring’s back room team during the 1980s and 1990sWed Apr 12 2023 - 14:19
Biden flies in to declare backing for peace and prosperity in NorthUS president not expected to use visit to ‘twist arms’ over Stormont re-openingWed Apr 12 2023 - 00:01
Eviction ban lapses making thousands of notices to quit go live for tenantsHomelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry described move as a ‘nightmare’; Minister for Housing said it was ‘the responsible move to make’Sat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Ireland’s neutrality policy is a permanent hold-my-beer postureThe policy lacks honesty and means we leave it to others to defend western valuesSat Apr 01 2023 - 00:01
Coalition comfortably survives after heated debateGovernment under pressure on housing but majority remains intactThu Mar 30 2023 - 05:00
What is happening in the Dáil today - and could it lead to an election?Government expected to win votes today but faces continuing pressure on housingWed Mar 29 2023 - 04:29
EU leaders spooked by plunge in bank shares Paschal Donohoe urges leaders to push ahead with legislation to create cross-border EU banking industrySat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Pat Leahy: The Coalition has blundered into a crisis it might not be able to controlLifting the evictions ban, coupled with a failure to get to grips with the housing crisis, will make it tough to win votes from anyone aged under 40Sat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Public discussions on future of Irish neutrality to be held later this yearPlans to be announced by Micheál Martin, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar indicatesFri Mar 24 2023 - 12:13
Judges will be ‘very reluctant’ to enforce evictions, Leo Varadkar saysTaoiseach says view presented that termination notices send people in homelessness ‘not how it works’Fri Mar 24 2023 - 10:15
Varadkar predicts comfortable win for Government on confidence motionUnrest in Green Party over suspension of Neasa HouriganFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
EU to send one million artillery shells to UkraineGovernment insists Ireland’s neutrality unaffected and that it would not contribute to military aidFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Eviction ban: No constituency deals done with Independents to secure support, Taoiseach saysVaradkar ‘disappointed’ at DUP’s refusal to return to Stormont in spite of Windsor FrameworkThu Mar 23 2023 - 12:05
Windsor deal moves ahead in London and Brussels despite DUP oppositionDublin unworried by DUP vote against Windsor agreementTue Mar 21 2023 - 20:55
Jeffrey Donaldson faces a predicament as US money awaits a stable Northern IrelandJeffrey Donaldson faces a predicament over promises of US investment if he restores powersharing and political stabilitySat Mar 18 2023 - 12:00
Joe Biden throws support behind ‘vital’ Windsor Framework after meeting VaradkarTaoiseach thanks US president for support of Ireland’s position on BrexitSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Washington parades Ireland centre stage as politicians play green card for St Patrick’s festivities Varadkar, Martin and McDonald among many visiting Joe Biden and other key US players in traditional leveraging of our national identitySat Mar 18 2023 - 04:00
Biden expresses strong support for Windsor framework as he welcomes Varadkar to Oval OfficeTaoiseach praised US support for LGBT rights in earlier meeting with vice-presidentFri Mar 17 2023 - 20:35
Varadkar apologises for ‘ill-judged’ joke about interns in WashingtonComment made as Taoiseach was ‘reminiscing about his time in Washington DC as an intern 23 years ago’Thu Mar 16 2023 - 21:54
‘Decade of investment’ in store for North if stability returns, says TánaisteLeaders from North and South visit US for St Patrick’s Day, with focus on Northern Ireland’s economic futureThu Mar 16 2023 - 01:00
Taoiseach says housing crisis is raised with him by potential employers and investorsVaradkar and Donaldson criticise Sinn Féin for taking out ads in US newspapers seeking Border pollWed Mar 15 2023 - 21:27
Sinn Féin unity ads in US ‘incredible’ and ‘divisive’, says Jeffrey DonaldsonLeo Varadkar describes advertisements criticising the British government as ‘unhelpful’Wed Mar 15 2023 - 21:00
Martin claims Ireland has ‘turned a corner’ on housing ahead of Sinn Féin motion on eviction banLittle sign of backbenchers or Independents revolting against the CoalitionTue Mar 14 2023 - 21:30
Sinn Féin guilty of ‘sloppiness’ in election spending filings, Mary Lou McDonald saysInaccuracies in statutory declarations to Sipo were ‘not acceptable’, party leader saysTue Mar 14 2023 - 20:56
