People Before Profit Alliance

Change in the air on Moore Street as candidates get a frosty reception from stallholders

Local and European elections: Canvassing with People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, you can sense a cooler atmosphere, and Sinn Féin is certainly no longer flavour of the month

Climate factor is yet again absent as a pressing election issue on the doorsteps

Cocktail of misinformation, disinformation and right-wing populism not as prevalent in Ireland compared to Europe

Labour leader claims vote for an Independent candidate ‘often a vote for more of the same’

With polling showing Independents on nearly a quarter of the vote, Ivana Bacik makes election pitch

Trump’s trial verdict tops political agenda overseas, but Palestine is the big story at home

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

How’s the election going? Harris effect, Sinn Féin wobble and a peculiar public mood a week out

This day next week, Ireland goes to the polls to elect councillors, MEPs and a mayor for Limerick. Here’s the state of the nation

‘The Irish political system is designed primarily for men by men’: Why a record number of women are contesting local elections

Local elections: More women starting to make a mark in a political system ultimately ‘designed primarily for men by men’

Government urged to take emergency measures to address housing crisis at Dublin protest

Richard Boyd-Barrett tells Housing Fight Back rally current State policy is a ‘disaster’

European Parliament elections: a few clear leaders and then a mad scramble for seats

Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive

Complaint about donations to Leo Varadkar does not need criminal investigation, gardaí say

People Before Profit councillor Hazel De Nortúin submitted complaint which has been referred back to Standards in Public Office

Mixing social and private housing segregates rather than integrates communities, says Ó Broin

Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell

Martin and Ryan to insist Varadkar’s successor commits to Coalition going full term as Opposition seeks election

Opposition parties demand early general election as Taoiseach shocks country by announcing he would resign as Fine Gael leader immediately and step down as the head of Government in early April

Staff at Body Shop stores in Republic left without month’s pay and redundancy, says union

Staff and representatives had difficulty contacting new owners of business during two weeks’ notice given on closures

Solidarity rally held in Tallaght after Muslim cleric assaulted in suspected hate-based attack

Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri says he did not want to see Ireland ‘go down the road’ of other European countries where anti-immigrant sentiment is surging

Sinn Féin support hits lowest level in three years, falling by six points, poll shows

Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows party’s lead cut as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hold firm and smaller parties gain

Who’s who? The Yes and No camps in the March 8th family and care referendums

Referendum countdown: Here is how many of the most prominent organisations recommend you vote - and why

TV licence is ‘an outdated charge that belongs to a different time’, Taoiseach tells Dáil

More than 13,000 summonses for failure to pay TV licence issued last year, with Varadkar saying he would like a new system for funding public service broadcasting in place by 2025

Sinn Féin and Social Democrats set to campaign for ‘Yes-Yes’ vote in upcoming referendums

Both referendums due to take place on March 8th, International Women’s Day

The Dáil’s return brings a bad week for polygamists while People Before Profit try to have their cake and eat it

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Dáil briefly suspended on first day back dominated by immigration, housing and Gaza

Ceann Comhairle suspends chamber after People Before Profit TDs, calling for a debate on Gaza, fail to resume their seats

Echoes of ‘Nazi supporters’ lies’ about refugees from members of Rural Independent group, TD claims in Dáil

Bríd Smith accuses some TDs of echoing far-right, while Ceann Comhairle says her claims diminish ‘appalling nature’ of Nazism

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