Vitriolic Dáil exchanges over gender of Dublin TD Paul Murphy’s child
Row erupted between Danny Healy-Rae and Paul Murphy during debate on Finance Bill which was passed by 75 to 55 votes
Michael Healy Rae
Healy-Raes stuck in a cycle of bike shed remarks – enough to make Ivana Bacik fly off the chain
It’s dog eat dog for parking spaces every Tuesday at the Oireachtas
‘Why am I paying private health insurance? It defeats the whole purpose’: Cataract bus passengers face higher costs
HSE has cut reimbursement rate for patients travelling for operations but many in need of procedure have little choice but to pay up
Kerry eye services problems a ‘debacle’, hospital management says
Reply to parliamentary question that maintained there were ‘massive problems’ was draft sent out in error, University Hospital Kerry says
The cataract bus is, like all great Irish inventions, the fruit of carelessness and clientelism
The bus to Belfast for cataract surgery is a brilliant bit of political entrepreneurship, but it clouds the reality that healthcare is a right and we, the public, pay for all these treatments
‘I won’t accept it!’ Dáil unifies around Michael Healy-Rae after emotional appeal over online abuse
Kerry TD’s mother ‘never said anything bad about any human being’, he told House - but she was still the subject of taunts
Michael Healy-Rae denounces ‘derogatory, political’ abuse of late mother online
Taoiseach says establishment of regulator and safety code will hold social media platforms to account
Roaring rural TDs came looking for Dáil insults and Simon Harris didn’t let them down
The Roaring Independents are the unwhipped cream of Irish politics, proudly refusing to take orders from anybody
Man who admitted ‘intimidating’ Michael Healy-Rae ‘never wants to attend a political protest again’
Dean Hickson threw a bottle at the Kerry Independent TD at an antigovernment demonstration outside Leinster House last year
We shouldn’t import broken British rhetoric about migration
There was a time when we were rightly appalled about the language used about migrants in Brexit Britain. Now it is steadily being normalised here
Numbers seeking asylum in Ireland would rise if EU migration pact rejected, McEntee says
Rural Independents say Ireland now effectively a ‘colonial outpost of an EU regulatory empire’ as Minister stands over 80% border crossing figure
Minister claims Danny Healy-Rae tells people ‘everything they want to hear’
Michael McGrath in heated exchange with Kerry TD and Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty over increases in motor fuel excise duty
The Irish Times view on the Oireachtas report on assisted dying: a serious look at a sensitive issue
It may be left to the political parties to make their positions clear on the matter in advance of the general election
Oireachtas committee recommends legislating for assisted dying for those with six months to live
Timeframe should be extended to a year for those with neurodegenerative condition, committee says
Michael Healy-Rae accused of ‘undermining’ report of Oireachtas committee with ‘minority report’
Two Fine Gael members of committee say chairman Healy-Rae undermining credibility of report on eve of publication
Kerry shooting: Garda attempting to determine weapon used in killing of pensioner Patrick ‘Paddy’ O’Mahony
Man in his 60s remains in custody over the murder of firearms trader whose body was found outside his home on Sunday
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: We came to Leinster House with a heavy heart to remember Michael O’Regan
Danny Healy-Rae struggled to find the right words to convey his admiration for Michael O’Regan, ‘one of the best Kerrymen that ever came out of Kerry’
Hozier’s best-laid expansion plans in danger of going awry at Wicklow dwelling
Sara Baume’s publisher chances its arm; prospects for Healy-Raes: The Next Generation; A mystery for a crime writer
The Healy-Raes of Kerry and their multimillion-euro business empire
The politician brothers have substantial business interests in Kerry and business connections with State bodies
50 years of the Healy-Rae dynasty: Flat caps, populist politics and hard work
They've been ‘incredibly good at PR. Thatcher had Saatchi & Saatchi. The Healy-Raes had the Healy-Raes’
Postmaster TD Michael Healy-Rae says ‘awful’ stamp price hike necessary to keep five-day service
Politician who runs Kilgarvan post office calls on people to ‘use it or you will lost it’
From Kerry to Florida: Locals send Christmas messages of support to builder jailed for fraud
New York construction firm founder Dónal O’Sullivan started a six-month US jail sentence last month for fraud - but people in his native Kerry are keen to highlight his generosity
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
Tributes paid to farmer in her 70s who died rescuing sheep near Gap of Dunloe
Mary Tangney was a ‘great, hardworking woman’ with a ‘heart of gold’ whose death has left community of Beaufort and Black Valley in Co Kerry in shock
Greens in power: How the party has quietly become the most effective member of Coalition
Harry McGee looks at the party's performance in Government ahead of the party's annual conference in Cork
Two parties interested in sale of land on Conor Pass in Co Kerry
Taoiseach said Government is interested in buying scenic site but would not pay €10m asking price for the lands, woods and lakes
Ceann Comhairle warns it is ‘virtually inevitable’ far-right agitators will seek entry into Leinster House
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Those involved in Wednesday’s protests were ‘professional hatemongerers’ and Irish society needs to wake up to the threat
Who or what was behind this week’s protests outside the Dáil?
A crowd of around 200 gathered outside Leinster House, setting up a mock gallows and jostling and abusing politicians of all parties as they arrived
US student gets sucked into Dáil mob confrontation on first day as political intern
Intern Abby Caballero had her mobile phone taken as a hostile crowd jostled, pushed and threw objects at her boss, Michael Healy-Rae
Dáil protests: Tánaiste labels conduct of demonstrators as ‘fascist-like behaviour’
McEntee says she would not like to see ‘sterile’ zone around Leinster House after some TDs required Garda escort amid protests which saw 13 arrests
It was a long, depressing day as dangerously emboldened thugs descended on the Dáil
Activists’ incoherence and pathetic behaviour could have been hilarious if it were not so serious
Thirteen arrests amid vitriolic protests outside Dáil as TDs safeguarded by gardaí
Up to 200 demonstrators turn out on first day of new Dáil venting anger on issues including immigration and proposed hate-speech laws
Michael Healy-Rae refused planning permission to extend Tralee guest house
Rosemont Guesthouse currently houses Ukrainian refugees but proposed development was ‘excessive’, says council
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