Independents line up with enthusiasm to agree deals to support the next government
Electorate did not back Independents at level suggested by polling during the campaign but they could still play major role in 34th Dáil
Mattie McGrath
Tipperary South: Mattie McGrath (Ind)
Independent TD has sparked controversy numerous times since being elected to the Dáil in 2007
Tipperary South constituency candidates list: Final seat likely to be battle between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin
Election 2024: Fianna Fáiler-turned-independent Mattie McGrath is favourite to return
Tipperary North constituency candidates list: Michael Lowry will probably top the poll for the seventh election in a row
Election 2024: Local elections results suggest Labour is in reasonably good health here and Alan Kelly is a big beast
RIP FF-FG-Green Coalition, 2020-2024 - Miriam Lord’s look back at the Government
Three taoisigh, five budgets and a global pandemic: in unprecedented times it was a government like no other
Agent Cobalt slips off the radar as the truth comes dropping slow from Sinn Féin
Taoiseach and his wife celebrate his birthday by going to see the musical Hamilton, which contains the perfect chorus for a young and hungry leader on the brink of his first general election
Two signposts to an early election: Sinn Féin’s troubles and a glimpse of Micheál Martin’s election posters
Mattie McGrath spoke for the whole Dáil – an unusual occurrence, this – and maybe the rest of us too when he told the Chamber on Tuesday that all the election speculation was driving everyone 'demented'
‘Agent Cobalt’ fills role of Banquo’s ghost as Oireachtas amuses itself
Deputies and senators address each other as ‘comrade’ in corridors as speculation continues about Oireachtas member allegedly recruited as a Russian agent
Flippin’ ‘learnings’, they turn up like a bad penny whenever another billion is flushed down the pan
When under attack for the Children’s Hospital fiasco, Paschal Donohoe takes flak for Simon Harris - who is in New York - and pulls the word ‘learnings’ from the first aid box
Migration pact a ‘united effort of Europe’ and ‘essential’ for Ireland, says Taoiseach
Tánaiste hits out at ‘little Englander’ mentality of those aspiring to ‘some mythical purity’ in Ireland
Minister hits out at Mattie McGrath’s ‘anti-science world view’ as TD claims EPA issues ‘fake news’
Malcolm Noonan calls on Independent Tipperary TD to withdraw ‘absolutely disgraceful’ comments about Environmental Protection Agency
Substitute bench more important than usual in upcoming European elections
Names on European candidates’ replacement lists matter more than usual with a general election on the horizon
Taoiseach expresses concern on divisive language ‘pitting one group against another’ over housing
Independent TD Mattie McGrath says 82 homes for Ukrainian refugees being built in Co Tipperary, not 62 as per original plan
Total eclipse of the Dáil as Houdini Harris does a disappearing act on day one
Opposition outraged as new Taoiseach fails to show up in the chamber, but he didn’t fall down a black hole – he was busy phoning world leaders
One in five TDs are landlords as Michael Healy-Rae boosts property portfolio to 25
Returns of politicians’ interests for 2023 show 29 of the 160 TDs declared that they were landlords or owned rental property
Miriam Lord’s Week: Fine Gael chinwag gives clues to timing of next election, as David Norris prepares to bow out
Lashings of ginger beer and one-armed bandits can do nothing to stop the steady leaks within the Chamber walls... and ceilings
Use of ‘nasty’ language by some politicians when engaging with Roscrea protesters criticised
Labour TD says use of term ‘colonisation’ when talking about asylum seekers ‘appalling’
Roscrea protest: Third night of demonstration over plans to house asylum seekers in hotel
Racket Hall closed on Thursday with plans to house 160 international protection applicants in Tipperary hotel
Miriam Lord’s political awards for 2023
Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?
‘Ireland is full’: How a far-right phrase went mainstream
Due to deliberate efforts by extremists, such slogans are everywhere
Cork Fianna Fáil councillor criticises Government over housing of asylum seekers as TD calls for referendum on issue
Galway councillor at centre of immigration comments says he has had ‘zero communication’ from Fianna Fáil over disciplinary action
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
Heated Dáil debate on Rural Independent Group’s motion calling for cap on ‘influx of asylum seekers’
Dáil told that the total cost for people in IPAS accommodation between 2016 and 2022 is in excess of €1 billion
Welfare hikes, music lessons and €1.9bn for roads: Rural Independents’ draft budget wish-list
The Rural Independent Group’s draft pre-budget submission was released in error
Miriam Lord’s Week: TDs and Senators eager for their close-ups in The Tubridy Show
Committee hearings into RTÉ payments controversy provided stark contrast between top performers and those who scaled soaring heights of incoherence
Miriam Lord: Where is Dee Forbes? Under the bus, was the general consensus in the committee room
‘When the wheels came off the bus,’ is how the interim director general chose to describe the moment Tubsgate exploded in Montrose
RTÉ witnesses endure pointed but mostly respectful questioning at Oireachtas committee
Senior figures from national broadcaster subjected to hours of detailed questioning by politicians about payments to Ryan Tubridy
Miriam Lord: Leo makes touching plea for TDs to behave themselves
Calls made for a return to the respectful discourse of the past
Kieran Cuddihy asks if ‘Ireland is full’, a phrase now seemingly normalised on Newstalk
Cuddihy’s showy spirit runs through the Hard Shoulder: no sacred cow is safe
Angry reaction in the Dáil as Varadkar invokes Siege of Jobstown
Taoiseach’s remarks about 2014 water charges protest ‘scandalous’, says People Before Profit TD
Diarmaid Ferriter: The ‘opposite of the Greens’ party will serve no one
Farmers have mobilised for years around the theme of rural neglect. Any new rural political party has to offer something more than simply 'opposite to the Greens'
Closer co-operation with UK authorities needed to stop illegal border crossings, Varadkar says
Increase in people seeking International Protection in the State after coming from Britain or North
Elderly GAA fans excluded by cashless policy, TD warns
People who ‘gave their life’ to the sport may not have wherewithal to pre-book tickets, says Mattie McGrath
‘No issue’ with creating Oireachtas committee on immigration and asylum, Taoiseach says
Rural Independent TD says State cannot sustain numbers seeking international protections from State
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