Parties trying to 're-write history'Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said Fine Gael and Labour want voters to concentrate on national rather than local issues in the June…Tue May 19 2009 - 01:00
Department raises concern at Libertas use of gold harpEMBLEM CONTROVERSY: THE DEPARTMENT of Enterprise has expressed concern about the use of a gold harp in election literature circulated…Tue May 19 2009 - 01:00
Libertas posters cost €430,000ELECTION BUDGET: LIBERTAS HAS spent nearly €430,000 in just five weeks on a billboard and poster campaign backing its three …Tue May 19 2009 - 01:00
Ryan welcomes Taoiseach's decision on programme reviewTAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen’s decision to agree to a formal review of the programme for government with the Green Party after the June…Tue May 19 2009 - 01:00
FF tensions and FG cheer visible in Dublin SouthCONSTITUENCY PROFILE: DUBLIN SOUTH : FOR MONTHS Labour’s Senator Alex White has toiled in the often ungrateful vineyard that…Mon May 18 2009 - 01:00
Nama must not buy bondholders' unsecured debts, warns BrutonBILLIONS OF euro in bank losses must be incurred by international investors who helped to fund hundreds of risky property loans…Fri May 15 2009 - 01:00
Bruton says Nama plan will failInternational investors who bought bonds sold by Irish banks must share in the pain of sorting out Ireland’s banking crisis, …Thu May 14 2009 - 01:00
Dail 'should choose McCreevy's successor'CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: IRELAND’S NEXT European commissioner should be chosen by the Dáil after it publicly interviews candidates, …Thu May 14 2009 - 01:00
Gilmore predicts four European seatsThe Labour Party will win four European Parliament seats in the Republic, party leader, Eamon Gilmore said today.Wed May 13 2009 - 01:00
McGuinness told to honour vote dealFINE GAEL RIVALRY: SITTING FINE Gael MEP Maireád McGuinness has been ordered by her party to honour an agreement to split the…Wed May 13 2009 - 01:00
500 million in 27 countries entitled to voteEUROPEAN ELECTIONS: NOMINATIONS CLOSE today for the European Parliament elections on June 5th.Mon May 11 2009 - 01:00
Christy Burke to run for Sinn FeinDUBLIN CENTRAL: SINN FÉIN has chosen its longest-serving councillor, Christy Burke, to run in the Dublin Central byelection …Mon May 11 2009 - 01:00
Ganley urges electorate to back party in protest at political establishmentEU: LIBERTAS: LIBERTAS FOUNDER Declan Ganley yesterday urged voters to back him in next month's European Parliament elections…Mon May 11 2009 - 01:00
Warm welcome for Lee on the streetGEORGE LEE, Fine Gael’s newly-unveiled Dublin South byelection candidate, went out to meet the people yesterday.Fri May 08 2009 - 01:00
Redundancies for top officials in Fine Gael local reform planTOP LOCAL authority officials would be offered redundancy and scores of local bodies abolished if Fine Gael’s local government…Fri May 08 2009 - 01:00
Shay Brennan selected as FF candidate for Dublin SouthTHE SON of late Cabinet minister Seamus Brennan was last night selected to run for Fianna Fáil in the June 5th Dublin South byelection…Thu May 07 2009 - 01:00
Former ally urges party not to support Brennan's sonFF CONTROVERSY: FORMER CABINET minister Séamus Brennan’s closest political ally has called on fellow Fianna Fáil members in …Wed May 06 2009 - 01:00
Partnership talks look set to collapseSOCIAL PARTNERSHIP talks are set to collapse next week unless last-minute concessions from the Government are made to guarantee…Fri May 01 2009 - 01:00
Decision to withhold tax relief criticisedTHE REVENUE Commissioners’ decision to withhold mortgage interest tax relief from nearly 60,000 homeowners until it gets its …Fri May 01 2009 - 01:00
Claim of most visited website questionedDECLAN GANLEY’S claim Libertas has the most popular political party website in the European Union is undermined by data from …Fri May 01 2009 - 01:00
Labour candidate in Euro poll tops list for donorsLABOUR’S EUROPEAN Parliament candidate in the South constituency, Senator Alan Kelly, topped the list last year for disclosable…Thu Apr 30 2009 - 01:00
FF Ministers meeting arrives at surprise byelection decisionTHE SURPRISE decision by the Government to hold the two Dublin byelections on June 5th was taken following a meeting yesterday…Wed Apr 29 2009 - 01:00
Ganley critical of former aide who now backs LisbonLIBERTAS FOUNDER Declan Ganley has sharply criticised a former aide who helped to mastermind his organisation’s campaign against…Wed Apr 29 2009 - 01:00
Jobless rate may rise above 50% in poverty blackspotsUNEMPLOYMENT IN the State’s worst poverty blackspots will rise above 50 per cent during the recession, a new umbrella group representing…Tue Apr 28 2009 - 01:00
Government seeks to defeat FG byelection motion in DailTHE GOVERNMENT has ordered a near-full attendance of TDs in the Dáil tonight to vote down a Fine Gael move to force it to hold…Tue Apr 28 2009 - 01:00
Ex-Libertas director now backs LisbonIRELAND DOES not have the luxury of a second No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum and voters should vote Yes, one of the architects…Tue Apr 28 2009 - 01:00
Socialist Party leader urges voters to 'annihilate' FF in European elections HomeNewsSOCIALIST PARTY leader Joe Higgins, who is running for a European Parliament seat in Dublin, has launched a forceful attack on…Fri Apr 24 2009 - 01:00
FF TDs may reject plan to give up incrementsSENIOR FIANNA Fáil TDs are expected to reject Green Party leader John Gormley’s proposal that TDs should voluntarily give up …Tue Apr 21 2009 - 01:00
Seán Ó Neachtain's withdrawal leaves FF looking for candidateFIANNA FÁIL will be forced to pick a new candidate to contest the European Parliament elections in the Northwest constituency…Tue Apr 21 2009 - 01:00
Accountants say retrospective income levy is unfairTHE GOVERNMENT is unfairly targeting workers whose income will drop as 2009 continues because of the mounting recession, the …Tue Apr 21 2009 - 01:00
20 junior ministers set to resign at midnightTWENTY MINISTERS of State will resign at midnight tonight, and Taoiseach Brian Cowen will nominate just 15 names for tomorrow…Tue Apr 21 2009 - 01:00
Lowry says tribunal praise unlikelyINDEPENDENT TD Michael Lowry has warned supporters in his Tipperary North constituency that the report of the Moriarty tribunal…Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:00
FF Senator Tony Kett dies after long illnessFIANNA FÁIL Senator Tony Kett, who was a close ally of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has died from cancer.Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:00
Cowen expected to limit Minister of State changesTAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen is expected to make the minimum number of changes possible to his Ministers of State line-up when he unveils…Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:00
State protection of pensions key to partnership talks, says SiptuTHE GOVERNMENT will have to show a willingness to offer a multi-billion euro plan to safeguard private worker pensions if social…Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:00
'Fair City' reshot over election poster slipRTÉ HAS had to reshoot a scene in tomorrow night’s omnibus edition of its popular soap Fair City after it emerged that an election…Sat Apr 18 2009 - 01:00
Website to allow political donationsDONATIONS TO Irish political candidates can be made through a new website which will be launched throughout the EU before the…Fri Apr 17 2009 - 01:00
MEP criticises Sinn Féin attitude to EUSITTING FIANNA Fáil Dublin MEP Eoin Ryan last night launched a strong attack on Sinn Féin’s attitude towards the European Union…Thu Apr 16 2009 - 01:00
Laws against asset repurchase soughtDEVELOPERS WHO default on property loans due to Irish banks or have assets seized should be prevented by law from buying them…Wed Apr 15 2009 - 01:00
O'Reilly criticised by McGuinness and Robinson over 'Telegraph' coverageSIR ANTHONY O’Reilly has been sharply criticised by Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister…Wed Apr 15 2009 - 01:00
Cowen among investors in disputeTALKS TO end a legal dispute about a €12m property deal involving Taoiseach Brian Cowen and nearly 70 other Irish investors are…Wed Apr 15 2009 - 01:00
Bruton warns of €3bn cost to taxpayerFINE GAEL VIEW: TAXPAYERS WILL end up paying nearly €3 billion a year in interest payments to meet the costs of buying up Irish…Thu Apr 09 2009 - 01:00
Tough Budget went for tax hikes and held off attack on spendingANALYSIS: FRAMING HIS emergency Budget, Brian Lenihan was haunted by the memory of Ernest Blythe, the finance minister in WT…Wed Apr 08 2009 - 01:00
Gilmore warning about treaty concessionsCONCESSIONS MUST not be made by the Government to religious and social conservatives about the wording of guarantees to be negotiated…Tue Apr 07 2009 - 01:00
Rule-change proposals on candidates are pulledCANDIDATE SELECTION: EFFORTS BY members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party to cut the influence of party grassroots over the…Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00
Nursing home fees 'threat' to family assetsHEALTH: THE GOVERNMENT should change nursing home payment legislation that could see families losing farms and small businesses…Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00
Kenny says date should be set for new Lisbon voteKENNY COMMENTS: THE GOVERNMENT should immediately set the date for the second Lisbon Treaty referendum, Fine Gael leader Enda…Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00
FG promises economic recovery within five yearsIreland can emerge successfully from the recession within five years if the crisis is used as an opportunity fundamentally to…Sun Apr 05 2009 - 01:00
FG promises economic recovery within five yearsIreland can emerge successfully from the recession within five years if the crisis is used as an opportunity fundamentally to…Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00
Fine Gael outlines hospital payment planThe State should pay hospitals for each patient they treat, and not give each a block grant, to encourage them to treat more …Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00
