Donnelly denies Government ‘caving to protesters’ opposing asylum seeker accommodation
Minister says communities such as Roscrea have taken many new arrivals and there should be some dividend
Jackie Cahill
Special package for 10 areas with highest number of refugees and asylum seekers
Government says ‘scoping work’ under way to determine the size of the package that will be offered
Roscrea standoff: Government agrees ‘in principle’ to purchase disused hotel in town as ‘community hotel’
Purchase part of attempts to defuse tensions over accommodating asylum seekers in local hotel
How John Magnier’s Coolmore bloodstock operation is buying up Co Tipperary
The highly profitable horsebreeding operation is estimated to have bought 170 farms in the county, the equivalent of more than five times the size of the Phoenix Park
Controversial forestry deal with investor funds unlikely to be repeated, says Minister
Deal between Coillte and Gresham House is binding and cannot be reversed, Charlie McConalogue says
Joe Canning: I loved having a chip on the shoulder, I wanted it
Writing off Limerick after the league campaign will have motivated them even more
State should fund emission reducing technology to reduce methane, committee told
Range of options on reducing agriculture emissions to be brought to Cabinet
Coalition gears up for next election after unprecedented challenges
Government parties remain broadly united despite a relentlessly bleak environment
Scrapping fishing boats will ‘destroy industry and communities’
Representative bodies oppose Government plan for decommissioning of 60 trawlers
Miriam Lord’s Week: Rented plastic Christmas trees sum up Leinster House festive cheer
Former minister Finian McGrath joins team Shelbourne FC as public affairs officer
Political support for climate measures linked to scale of public investment
Government backbenchers express backing but want ‘carrot’ deployed ahead of ‘stick’
Revised €165bn national infrastructure plan to include funding for extra roads
National Development Plan, to be published on Monday, will include more than 50 projects with a price tag of more than €100m
Minister denies crisis in peat harvesting sector is product of ‘green agenda’
Malcolm Noonan insists Government is bound by planning laws on large-scale extraction
Fianna Fáil ‘rebel’ TDs to vote with Government in vote of confidence in Coveney
Those in favour of new FF leader likely to back Coveney as losing whip would place them outside parliamentary party for six months
Fianna Fáil’s 2020 election postmortem still not delivered
Party TDs express disappointment at slowness of report and poor byelection showing
Racing authorities in Ireland and Britain dismiss doping claims
IHRB and BHA say samples carried out did not support allegations of steroid use
Horseracing regulatory body insists it acts on all doping claims
Under-fire IHRB to appear before Oireachtas agriculture committee this week
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin condemned to linguistic knots over Jerry McCabe
Party leader Mary Lou McDonald and TD Martin Browne were singing different songs
Oireachtas Committee looking into doping claims in racing set to be virtual event
Leading Irish trainer Jim Bolger has been invited by Committee to July 8th hearing
Forestry licence delays driving contractors out of business, committee told
Officials pledge to issue 4,500 permits this year as crisis described as ‘absolute disaster’
Mounting concern at impact of UK-Australia deal on Irish beef exports
Irish Government source says matter closely monitored but UK is free to pursue trade deals post-Brexit
TDs asked ‘do we want to be on right side of history?’
Government backbenchers call for recognition of Palestinian state
Review of funds given to An Taisce demanded at Fianna Fáil party meeting
Planned appeal over €140 million cheese plant labelled ‘treasonous’ by one TD
Investment in €140 million cheese plant stalled in planning row, Dáil told
Use of judicial review to ‘frustrate and delay’ projects a cause of concern – Taoiseach
Progress against Covid-19 is ‘fragile’, Taoiseach tells FF party meeting
Micheál Martin says Ireland will be in a ‘different position’ in April due to vaccination
Cahill questions ‘logic’ of quizzing Minister over horse racing controversies
Agriculture committee chair says McConalogue could be invited for broad discussion
Michael Healy-Rae is Dáil’s biggest landlord and declares NYT shares
One-quarter of TDs are property investors or landowners
School reopening: Infant and Leaving Cert classes may return on March 1st, says Taoiseach
Lifting of restrictions complicated by UK variant now accounting for 90 per cent of Covid-19 cases
Forestry industry future threatened by delays in planting licences
Leading figures in the business claim there is a two-year delay in getting planting permits due to backlog in felling licences
Taoiseach faces calls for Level 2 ‘with tweaks’ after lockdown ends
Families need clarity on Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Chrismas, party meetings told
Minister warns Eir it will have to address ‘shocking poor’ customer service
In an unusual intervention in Dáil, the Ceann Comhairle asks of the regulator is ‘doing its job’
Eighteen TDs nominated to chair Oireachtas committees
James Lawless, Fergus O’Dowd, Kathleen Funchion and Neasa Hourigan among appointees
Taoiseach urged to relax rules on ‘ridiculous’ 200 spectator limit at sports venues
Limit the same for all venues, Micheál Martin pledges to respond ‘in a positive but safe way’
Martin faces down parliamentary party critics of his strategy
Fianna Fáil leader to continue efforts to form a coalition with Fine Gael
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