Garda whistleblowers are being ‘penalised and even purged’, Dáil told
The claim that senior personnel handling protected disclosures were met with hostility by senior Garda management is perhaps the most serious new allegation
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Donald Trump’s successful Irish visit highlights benefits of being his friend
US president’s brief tour resulted in win on whiskey tariffs and put life into debate on unity
Going through the motions: Did anyone learn a whole heap from party think-ins?
The think-ins organised by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin this week showed Irish politics is static right now
Increase in public transport fares ‘a Trumpian policy’ that will ‘cost lives’, Dublin protest told
Decision-makers ‘don’t step foot on the Dart or Dublin Bus’, says Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman
‘Hawaiian’ Labour contemplates an uncertain future
Michael D Higgins and Sabina arrive to say aloha at the Labour think-in, and there is much gushing
‘Donald, Catherine; Catherine, Donald’: Connolly’s first big diplomatic test as President
Next weekend’s encounter between the US president and a hard critic has officials working feverishly to minimise the risks
Labour proposes €100 monthly child benefit top-up during winter
Party gathers for first of autumn think-ins
Fuel supports extended by two months as Dáil vote splits Healy-Rae brothers
Reduction of 30c per litre for diesel and 25c for petrol to remain in place until October 31st
Visa refusals dismay Gazan students and undermine our academic institutions
These students from a genocide zone have demonstrated academic excellence despite the enormous obstacles in their way
Courts will decide on military deployments if triple lock is removed, Labour leader warns
Alternative to UN is ‘return to disorder, chaos and carnage of war’, Ivana Bacik tells MacGill summer school
‘He was incredibly entitled and manipulative’: The grim pattern of femicide in Ireland
‘People think, ‘If he hits me, I’ll leave’, Well, if he stabs you, you don’t get a chance,’ says brother of Valerie French, killed by her husband in 2019
Planning granted for 106 apartments at site of former mother and baby home in Cork
Concern that Bessborough grounds have not been fully exhumed with the location of children’s remains unknown
Party van steals show at Leinster House as Taoiseach prepares to be Emperor of Europe
Dáil proceedings have summer holiday feel as Micheál Martin gets set to lean on his three pillars of EU council presidency
Boy with educational needs receives 18 rejections for special school place
Dáil also hears of aautistic and non-verbal boy facing into third year without primary school place in September
Almost 1,900 women turned away from domestic violence services due to lack of beds
Report from Safe Ireland highlights growing prevalence of technology-facilitated and economic abuse
Irish woman on board hantavirus-hit cruise ship ‘surprised’ she didn’t become infected
Anne Lane (79) and a travel companion were quarantined for six weeks at HSE facility following outbreak of deadly virus
One woman’s recollection of abuse in Cork school cuts through the talk
Leaders’ Questions dominated by ordeal of women abused as children by principal and predator Leo Hickey
When it comes to pregnant women in crisis, the aul’ fellas think they know better
Dispiriting familiarity to parade of TDs coming out to say they would vote against Bill allowing women make their own choice
Sinn Féin Bill on abortion services passes crucial Dáil vote with help of Ministers
Proposal will abolish compulsory three-day wait for access
Government to insist it has no role in sports fixtures in response to calls to stop Ireland-Israel games
Taoiseach rejects calls for intervention in upcoming matches
‘Sinn Féin were never left’: Inside the political splits that threaten the Catherine Connolly coalition
Fianna Fáil, the largest political party, bombed in the byelections but divisions among the left-wing parties drew most attention
Social Democrats are attuned to the recycling young Gaelscoil parents – not so much lefty as modern
In show business they call what party leader Holly Cairns has ‘relatability’
Government accused of ‘famine of ambition’ on climate action after latest projection on missed targets
Ireland to fall well short of targeted cuts on greenhouse gas emissions as Minister says they will be reached in ‘early 2030s’
Economy ‘dangerously dependent’ on tech giants, Dáil told
Government frightened they will pull investment and move jobs elsewhere, Labour leader Ivana Bacik says
Left-wing parties round on Sinn Féin over policy direction
Differences fracturing progressive alliance formed during Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign
Smartphone video ‘ambushing’ and the changing nature of political campaign trails
‘Bertie is an analogue politician in a digital age,’ says one Fianna Fáil TD on risks of being recorded while canvassing
Bertie Ahern’s comments on immigration ‘totally wrong’, says Jack Chambers
Tánaiste Simon Harris expects former taoiseach to ‘reflect’ on ‘any hurt or harm’ remarks have caused
‘It’s not Paschal’s seat’: Left-wing candidates on trail in Dublin Central byelection
Janet Horner (Green Party), Ruth O’Dea (Labour) and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin (PBP) among those seeking to fill seat vacated by former FG minister
Martin Fraser bags Ambassador of the Year award, making him the diplomats’ diplomat
Outgoing Ambassador to the UK receives gong just before taking up new post as Ireland’s Ambassador to the UN
Taoiseach rejects call for mini-budget as Sinn Féin calls for USC cut and energy credits
Labour claims Government playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with ad hoc measures in response to political pressure
Use of fake character references for children’s care home staff ‘extremely disturbing’, says Taoiseach
Ivana Bacik says RTÉ documentary ‘highlights shocking State failing’
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