Dublin Zoo disputes allegations in Seanad about animal welfareSenator Annie Hoey outlined concerns raised by staff at the zoo and a whistleblower’s protected disclosureThu Jul 14 2022 - 19:32
Construction defects: Varadkar signals potential help for apartment owners Tánaiste responds to Labour leader Ivana Bacik on need for financial assistance due to faulty constructionThu Jul 14 2022 - 18:35
‘This is not a dress rehearsal’ - Ceann Comhairle urges TDs to spend time with their families this summer as Dáil adjournsSeán Ó Fearghaíl said politicians would not be downing tools over the summer recess and constituency offices would remain openThu Jul 14 2022 - 16:54
Burning images of people and flags is not culture and is ‘absolutely wrong’, Tánaiste saysLeo Varadkar said it was ‘not acceptable’ that images of the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill were burned on a unionist bonfireThu Jul 14 2022 - 15:16
Budget alone will not be able to get Ireland ‘on top of inflation crisis’, Varadkar says Sinn Féin deputy leader says one in three people in energy poverty and Coalition should do more to protect workers and familiesThu Jul 14 2022 - 14:43
Taoiseach criticises hospitals over ‘inappropriate’ disposal of organs without knowledge of parentsAudit noted significant delays in relation to the sensitive disposal of perinatal organs removed during postmortemsWed Jul 13 2022 - 17:51
Social Democrats say Government ‘ramming through’ planning legislationTaoiseach says there is an obligation on the Government to streamline the State’s planning system and to make it more efficientWed Jul 13 2022 - 15:31
Calls for housing and cost of living movement to force action on rents from ‘weak Government’People Before Profit puts forward Rent Reduction Bill which seeks to cap costs at 25% of median household incomesWed Jul 13 2022 - 12:02
Government comfortably wins confidence vote in DáilTaoiseach defends Coalition’s record after McDonald claims administration has lost public supportTue Jul 12 2022 - 22:33
Association for Defence Forces officers sees ‘glaring inequalities’ in Government’s plan `Defence Forces officers cannot vote confidence in a plan that sees them treated less favourably than their enlisted colleagues in terms of military service and instructor’s allowances’Tue Jul 12 2022 - 21:55
Stories of women who travelled for abortion are ‘heartbreaking’, Donnelly saysMinister responds to accounts of women facing fatal foetal anomaly diagnoses who did not qualify for care in the RepublicTue Jul 12 2022 - 20:59
Teachers leaving Dublin due to ‘extortionate rent and soaring house prices’, Dáil toldTaoiseach tells Sinn Féin leader progress being made on housing crisis ‘but it’s not enough to deal’ with huge level of demandTue Jul 12 2022 - 15:11
Uber Files: Greater transparency needed around lobbying, says TaoiseachLeaked records show firm tried to push FG-led government in 2015 and 2016 to loosen taxi regulationsMon Jul 11 2022 - 19:53
Stricter controls on short-term lettings must be enforced, says charity Minister for Housing signals tighter rules in rent-pressure zonesMon Jul 11 2022 - 19:03
Housing minister will ‘assess’ Greystar plans to increase rental prices Two per cent rap cap in rent pressure zones is ‘clear’, Darragh O’Brien saidFri Jul 08 2022 - 16:31
Sinn Féin only interested in ‘creating culture of instability’, Donohoe saysParty wants to generate ‘atmosphere of challenge and uncertainty’, finance minister says ahead of motion of no confidenceFri Jul 08 2022 - 15:54
Draft proposals ‘banning commercial sale of turf’ to be published next weekRestrictions due to be introduced on retail and internet sales, Minister for Environment tells DáilThu Jul 07 2022 - 16:47
Government loses Dáil majority as McHugh votes against mica legislationMcHugh will likely resign as FG party whip meaning Government loses majorityWed Jul 06 2022 - 19:35
Defence Forces on standby at Dublin Airport to ‘avoid reputational damage’, Dáil hearsSome 130 Defence Forces personnel set to be trained and available to support operations at the airportWed Jul 06 2022 - 15:24
Soldiers have not received €1,000 Covid-19 bonus payment, Dáil hearsArmy personnel who were deployed to HSE testing and vaccination centres were due to recieve the paymentWed Jul 06 2022 - 14:18
Middle-income families in ‘dire straits’ have been ‘left behind’ by back-to-school allowance increase, says Sinn Féin'Any family with a household income of €621 a week won’t get a red cent of the back-to-school allowance,’ the Dáil heardWed Jul 06 2022 - 13:38
Back-to-school allowance to be increased by €100 in bid to help parentsMeasures including major expansion of school meals programme will be worth €67mTue Jul 05 2022 - 19:31
Bills going though Dáil at ‘scandalous’ pace ahead of recess, says Opposition Varadkar critical of time spent on statements and ‘show motions’ that have ‘absolutely no legal effect’Tue Jul 05 2022 - 17:44
Department to engage ‘intensely’ with schools to open special classes - FoleyMore than 100 children with special educational needs do not have an appropriate school placeFri Jul 01 2022 - 15:27
Fianna Fáil TDs to demand ‘extraordinary’ budget package Taoiseach and Minister for Public Expenditure to come under renewed pressure at party meetingThu Jun 30 2022 - 20:20
Number of recorded Covid-19 cases up by 20% this weekPublic transport services report pressure on staff numbers due to rising rate of infectionsThu Jun 30 2022 - 19:37
Mica legislation ‘not fit for purpose’, says Sinn FéinDeputy leader Pearse Doherty says legislation should be amended or rejectedThu Jun 30 2022 - 19:12
Timing of budget to be decided next weekEamon Ryan rejects emergency budget but ‘wouldn’t object’ to bringing forward budget due to cost-of-living crisisThu Jun 30 2022 - 18:44
Ireland could be dealing with cost of living crisis for years, says VaradkarTánaiste was responding in the Dáil to Sinn Féin’s renewed calls for a summer budgetThu Jun 30 2022 - 13:36
Bus services cancelled due to high levels of Covid-19 staff absences, Dáil hearsPeople ‘left abandoned at bus stops’ due to Go-Ahead services being cancelled, Sinn Féin claimsThu Jun 30 2022 - 13:06
Budget could be brought forward by up to a month September budget under discussion as Government faces pressure from Opposition over growing cost-of-living crisisThu Jun 30 2022 - 04:00
Ó Ríordáin criticises Madigan over naming of four primary schoolsLabour TD describes Minister’s comments in radio interview as ‘regrettable’Wed Jun 29 2022 - 20:04
Ireland may face ‘prolonged period of high inflation’, Dáil hears Minister for Public Expenditure says Government believes inflation will peak ‘in the short number of months ahead’Wed Jun 29 2022 - 15:38
Taoiseach says Northern Ireland protocol bill ‘regrettable and unacceptable’Martin claims there is ‘an unacceptable trend towards unilateralism’ within current British governmentTue Jun 28 2022 - 17:49
Sinn Féin proposal for emergency budget emergency budget rejected by GovernmentSinn Féin leader says Dáil summer recess ‘wholly wrong’ without emergency budgetTue Jun 28 2022 - 17:34
Over 40% of Irish adults have mental health disorder, study findsMost common disorder is insomnia followed by major depressionMon Jun 27 2022 - 19:21
HPRA warns of ‘serious health risks’ of self-tanning aid advertised on social media Substance, also known as MT2, is being sold as an injectable powder, nasal spray or dropsMon Jun 27 2022 - 13:18
Inheritance tax thresholds should be increased over time, says TánaisteSpeaking in the Dáil, Leo Varadkar said the thresholds should be reviewed as house prices riseThu Jun 16 2022 - 16:36
Varadkar hits out at Doherty over ‘cheap shots’ in heated Dáil exchangesTánaiste criticises McDonald for ‘clinking champagne glasses with the Trinity alumni’Thu Jun 16 2022 - 15:35
Some of Higgins’s housing ‘failure’ comments true, Varadkar saysTánaiste refuses to criticise President for recent housing `disaster’ remarksWed Jun 15 2022 - 19:00
Dublin hostel charging €167 a night for dorm bunk bed, Doherty saysTravelling GAA supporters will face ‘rip-off prices’ this weekend as hotel charges soarWed Jun 15 2022 - 17:39
Dáil hears children self-harming as educational needs not met Schools should have to provide places for children with special needs, says MinisterTue Jun 14 2022 - 22:05
Sinn Féin TD has ‘some neck’ to start ‘lecturing’ parties about fundraising, says TaoiseachPádraig Mac Lochlainn says last-minute amendment to Bill ‘an old fashioned stroke’Tue Jun 14 2022 - 21:58
Ireland’s generosity will never be forgotten, Ukraine MPs tell SeanadUkrainians in visitor’s gallery to see politicians address the chamberTue Jun 14 2022 - 20:23
UK protocol bill ‘profoundly dispiriting’, says TaoiseachTalks have reached a ‘dead end’ unless EU changes protocol text, British foreign secretary saysTue Jun 14 2022 - 16:22
Children face being left in ‘stateless legal limbo’ without international surrogacy framework, says solicitorCommittee examining Bill that would allow for forms of surrogacy in State hears from legal expert and surrogateThu Jun 09 2022 - 19:15
Leaving Cert: ‘Essay the best thing I’ve ever written’An ease among students exiting exam hall after opener, says Lucan Community College principalWed Jun 08 2022 - 19:00
Workers to get three free vouchers to work in remote hubsAbout 10,000 hot desk spaces will be provided under the scheme with 242 remote working hubs nationwideWed Jun 08 2022 - 09:15
Workplace fatalities fell to record low in 2021 — HSA reportLast year 38 work-related deaths were recorded, a 30 per cent decline compared with 2020Tue Jun 07 2022 - 13:54
Man being treated in hospital following light aircraft crash Aircraft crashed in a field in Co Leitrim on Monday nightTue Jun 07 2022 - 13:37
