Another chaotic week in Trumpland as Nato summit navigates ‘daddy’ issues
From a Dáil row over the GPO to further housing woes, your essential end-of-week politics catch-up
Sinn Féin
Opposition parties continue to boycott pairing arrangements for absent Ministers
Long-standing Dáil custom is most commonly used when a Minister travels abroad or is sick
Minister denies Sinn Féin’s claim anti-terrorism Bill contains a ‘Kneecap’ clause
Jim O’Callaghan says UK charge against ‘Mo Chara’ could not occur in Ireland
Sinn Féin proposes orders to protect victims of sexual violence after offenders released
Judges would be able to issue civil protection orders to apply after offenders released under proposed Bill
New sheriff Jim O’Callaghan took Leaders’ Questions. Expectations were modest…
Some people might have been thinking Jim O’Callaghan was chosen to answer questions precisely because of the topic
Dublin commuters won’t be able to fully use contactless on public transport until 2029
Initial testing to start in two years’ time within ‘controlled area’ for bus, rail and Luas services
2025 Irish presidential election must be the last to exclude voters in North, Dáil hears
Sinn Féin leader says November poll must be last where franchise not all-Ireland
Miriam Lord: ‘Taoiseach, do you do a weekly shop?’ It’s not even funny to think about
Imagine Micheál Martin doing your weekly shop? He’d refuse to look at a biscuit, the house would be awash with broccoli and you’d die for the want of a cheese-and-onion crisp
Child homelessness a ‘national shame’, TDs and Senators told
Children’s Ombudsman representative says children in emergency accommodation cannot get childhoods back
Paediatric hospital to be known as National Children’s Hospital Ireland under proposals to be considered by Cabinet
There had been efforts to have the new hospital called after Kathleen Lynn
Hospital endoscopy procedures are increasingly being done at weekends
Health service trying to accommodate more patients outside traditional weekday hours
If our Geraldine can thrive in Trump’s Washington, she might be a worthy winner of the race for the Áras
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Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill declines to rule out presidential run
Former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood will ‘take time to think about’ possible candidacy
‘A load of bull’ that Sinn Féin is on the side of working people, Tánaiste says
Simon Harris claims Sinn Féin is the ‘wealthiest party’ and property owner in the Dáil
AIB share sale brings banker pay back into focus
Minister has kept 89% supertax on bonuses over €20,000 for bank executives in place even as he removes cap on salaries
Kneecap case: ‘A woman pointed to a sniggering Móglaí Bap as the magistrate asked if anyone knew an Irish interpreter’
Bedlam and singing outside London court as Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh appears on charge over displaying Hizbullah flag
So far nobody wants the Presidency and its quarter-of-a-million euro salary. Why?
Campaign savagery proves the system works because it weeds out the inexperienced, self-deluded and fantasists
‘A roof over your head is seen as a luxury’: Hundreds attend housing protest outside Dáil
Among Raise the Roof demonstrators were couple in ‘very secure jobs’ but ‘still not able to afford property in Dublin’
Living next door to dereliction: ‘It’s been rotting for years … Rats all over the place’
Some 830 council homes nationally have been vacant for more than a year
US democracy is in danger, but what about Ireland?
‘The greatest threat to Irish democracy comes from a sense that it is not delivering materially for people’
Irish neutrality protest: Hundreds march through Dublin city demanding triple-lock safeguard
Sinn Féin leader says Government should seek UN reform over ‘sidestepping’ organisation
Political nerves jangle over rent reforms: ‘We’re out defending something without any real evidence it’s going to make a difference’
Some in the Coalition parties fear the costs could outweigh the gains regarding changes to rent pressure zones regime while others point to the longer-term electoral picture
BBC will not appeal against Gerry Adams’s defamation case victory
Former Sinn Féin president calls for ‘substantial reform’ of broadcaster
Ballymena: Week of violent attacks on Northern Ireland’s small immigrant community ‘akin to 1930s Germany’
14 families burnt out of their homes and children forced to hide from mobs
PSNI given emergency Stormont cash to tackle anti-immigration riots
All parties in executive ‘on the same page’ in condemning ‘violent racism’, Michelle O’Neill said
Carlow gunman disclosure set to lead to scrutiny of An Garda Síochána
The case of Evan Fitzgerald has been referred to Fiosrú, the police ombudsman
Who is the American who left €535,000 to Sinn Féin’s US fundraising group in her trust?
Arizona woman Lauren Harvey, a regular visitor to Ireland, gifted Friends of Sinn Féin its largest ever cash donation
Up to 100,000 homes per year needed to address deficit by 2030, committee told
Department of Housing suggestion that commission’s recommendations were under way ‘not true in any meaningful sense’
Fears over Russia being used to make ‘insincere’ argument against triple lock, Opposition group says
Left-wing and Independent politicians claim number of Oireachtas members are uncomfortable with plans to relax triple lock
People Before Profit activists quit party over possibility of Sinn Féin-led government
Dublin City Council member Madeleine Johansson is one of some 30 Red Network activists who have left People Before Profit
Proposed changes to rent rules will incentivise evictions, housing charity warns
Property owners group says planned reforms, set to go before Cabinet on Tuesday, would be unfair to private landlords
Opposition tables second motion to ban Central Bank role in approving Israeli bonds
The Social Democrats motion is similar to a Sinn Féin motion defeated in the Dáil at the end of May
Two HSE staff suspended with pay or on administrative leave for 11 years
Figures show more than 40 personnel in health service in similar situations since 2014
Gerry Adams defamation verdict won’t have a chilling effect on journalism - and here’s why
Why did the BBC press on? Because it is an intractable bureaucracy with no respect for public money
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