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Almost all 60 senators spoke on first day of new Seanad as Irish unity, disability and housing among platforms for future debate

Claim of need to ‘start from scratch’ is to ‘avoid taking action’, Roderic O’Gorman says

Problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly failed to pass the bulls**t test

Social Democrats set to win first Seanad seat; Fine Gael gains a seat as Fianna Fáil down two

The problem boils down to one of politics versus populism, as politicians who promote unpopular but crucial policies struggle to be re-elected

Having othered nature throughout history, we continue to do so in Ireland. Once you demonise something, it is easy to discount it

Trump says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker. If he delivers on his promises on oil and gas expansion, he’ll be remembered as an Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned

The next government it seems, will be uninterested in structural reform

Absence of climate ambition, continuity rather than scaled-up targets and vague language stand out

Electorate of just under 1,200 including 941 councillors, 174 incoming TDs and outgoing Senators issued their postal votes for the 43 seats on five vocational panels

We are going to have to decarbonise and dampen down current spending to avoid overheating the economy

Obfuscation, delays and denial are being used by national political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, and similar tactics can also be found closer to home

Roderic O’Gorman’s comments came as 300 Green Party delegates attended event in Dublin

Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’

Series of referendums on issues such as housing and water ‘highly unlikely’, negotiators say

Wind energy lobby says new government needs to implement the Planning and Development Act and put in place policies to support the development of the sector both onshore and at sea

The Green Party faces a challenge in pushing policies to tackle climate change with just one TD

The Dublin riots changed politics, but not in the way anyone expected

The image which Ireland presented to the world at the end of 2024 was one of unusual stability

‘Data centres no longer need to be concentrated around Dublin’ but should be closer to sources of renewable energy, especially offshore wind