From an early budget to candidate selection: If that’s not getting election ready, then what is?
Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Martin lets fly, asking Independent TD, ‘What planet are you on?’
Chambers accused of ‘cock-and-bull story’ after insisting budget date change not election-related
Jack Chambers accused of telling a ‘cock-and-bull story’ after he insisted change of date is not election related
Hello election budget bonanza, goodbye Tories?
Budget requests are already coming in thick and fast from backbenchers
Buoyant tax returns likely to fuel political demands for giveaway budget
Pressure likely to mount on Chambers and Donohoe to be generous as corporation tax receipts up 15 per cent on last year
More than 40 Garda members convicted or given probation over last decade
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee sayas ‘vast majority’ of the 14,000 members of An Garda Síochána ‘uphold the values of the organisation and serve the State with integrity each and every day’
Fianna Fáil Ministers support increase of renters’ tax credit to €1,000
Minister for Finance Jack Chambers moves to dampen expectations around ‘tighter’ Budget 2025
All-action Simon Harris delays - and perhaps drops - hate speech Bill
Taoiseach’s energetic approach has not stopped him allowing contentious issues to fall by the wayside
Social Democrats will find it hard to fill vacuum left by departure of Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall
Departures unlikely to signal any major policy change in the party given they both stepped down as co-leaders last year
Former Social Democrats co-leaders Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall will not contest general election
TDs announce they will not stand for re-election, saying it is ‘time for a new generation to take over’
Inside Politics: Cabinet discusses new immigration rules while TV licence decision nears
Ministers will consider fresh proposals on accelerated decision times and new safe countries of origin.
Owners of nearly 16,000 defective apartments yet to receive State funding for emergency fire-safety works
Department of Housing says there are no delays; Sinn Féin TD says ‘there is clearly a lack of urgency’
Children to be allowed in places where betting happens under exemptions to gambling law
Legislation to be changed to exclude charitable and philanthropic organisations from advertising watershed
Green Party leadership candidates speak of ‘image problem’ and going on ‘election footing’
Final leadership hustings are held as Roderic O’Gorman and Pippa Hackett face off
Anger in Government after Defence Forces discloses 68 serving soldiers convicted or charged with offences
Government believes figure will rise with more extensive look back as unit commanders are summoned to meeting
O’Gorman and Hackett pledge to win back voters who have drifted away from Greens
Both candidates for Green Party leadership make their pitch to supporters in first hustings ahead of online vote