Miriam Lord’s review of the year: Shock resignations, ruptured relations and an over-eager new Taoiseach
A year of change heralds a future of more of the same
Catherine Murphy
‘It’s not for the faint hearted’: Catherine Murphy on poor planning, emigration and political conflict
The Social Democrats co-founder, who has retired from the Dáil, says problems that got her into politics four decades ago remain to be resolved
Kildare North constituency candidates list: Transfers between Coalition parties could see one of them return second TD
Election 2024: Impending retirement of Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy sees a gap open up in the constituency
Harris accused of displaying ‘height of arrogance’ by centre left parties
Labour and Social Democrats target Fine Gael leader for ruling out multi-party left wing alliance
State paid consultants €514,000 for 33 pages of Dublin metro plan reports
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy accuses State bodies of ‘out of control’ expenditure on consultants
RIP FF-FG-Green Coalition, 2020-2024 - Miriam Lord’s look back at the Government
Three taoisigh, five budgets and a global pandemic: in unprecedented times it was a government like no other
PAC members ‘furious’ after bid to quiz children’s hospital organisations before election is unsuccessful
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy says refusal of bodies to appear before committee was ‘unacceptable’
Brian Stanley controversy: Government ‘bottled’ fight to block new PAC chair nomination, SF says
Mairéad Farrell was sent forward to Dáil by committee with unanimous approval after Mr Stanley’s resignation from party
Ireland is transfixed by the disappearance of a giant of the Golden Age of Sinn Féin
Brian Stanley has gone missing in the political undergrowth, despite noble efforts to find him by media search parties
Consultants in RTÉ governance reviews paid more than €900,000
Department of Media says overall cost of reviews following controversy was €1,146,315
Children’s science museum cost fears rise as detail of €560,000 legal bill emerges
TD says proposed €70m project for Dublin could turn into a ‘mini national children’s hospital’
‘Your bike could still get wet’: Review into ‘inexcusable’ €336,000 bike shed at Leinster House requested
OPW says public money must be spent ‘transparently’ as Minister of State confirms review into cost
Conversion of urban buses to zero-emission vehicles will cost more than €1.3bn, NTA forecasts
Transport authority plans to phase out diesel and hybrid vehicles operating in urban areas by 2035
PR firm warned Road Safety Authority about ‘tricky’ Public Accounts Committee members
Dublin public relations agency Drury provided short biographical notes on each TD
Justine McCarthy: With Ireland on a knife edge, it’s a bad time for a brain drain from the Dáil
Potential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s home
RSA calls for stricter penalties and increased road policing
Road Safety Authority chairwoman describes spike in fatalities as ‘heartbreaking’ as death toll reaches 102 so far this year
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
Girl power in the Dáil as ‘two very formidable politicians’ take centre stage
Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall, two of the founders of the Social Democrats, take a bow as the third founder hides in plain sight
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’
O’Gorman edges ahead of Hackett in contest to be next Green Party leader
Winner to face challenge of rebounding from the party’s poor results in the local and European elections
Almost 50,000 Irish passports lost or stolen over past 18 months
Figures emerge as Passport Service faces peak demand for renewals and new applications, while concerns over ‘bad actors’ also raised
Labour and the Social Democrats: is it time for a conscious coupling?
Fergus Finlay, an adviser to former Labour leader Dick Spring, said he was surprised at the ‘animosity’ to the idea of merging from the Social Democrats
Refugees remaining in direct provision after being allowed stay in Ireland could be charged rent
Some in Government cautious about whether a charge would encourage people to leave or embed them further in State accommodation
‘Incredible’: RSA decision not to appear before Public Accounts Committee criticised
Considerable anger on Public Accounts Committee over State body’s failure to appear
GAA pressures Government on gambling law
Director general dubs amendments "insufficient and unworkable"
HSE forked out €2.8m in interest to suppliers for delays in payment
Enfer Laboratories received more than €70,000 in prompt payment interest in 2021, official figures show
HSE severance payments exceed €3.1m over the past five years
Health authority confirms 17 people received exit packages in the years 2019 to 2024 inclusive, with amount aggregated
Garda at centre of bicycle controversy fully reinstated, now considering legal action
Garda Commissioner told the Public Accounts Committee he did not agree that the investigation lacked a common-sense approach
More than 100 ESB staff received €200,000 severance deal each
Trade unions negotiated deal in relation to personnel who worked in power plants that were closing or being downsized
National Gallery spends over €200,000 on severance deal with staff member
Details of the cost of the agreement with unnamed staff member are included in National Gallery’s annual report
Iarnród Éireann paid out over €207,000 to former employee last year
There was no voluntary or severance agreement involving any member of senior management in recent years, says rail operator
DAA paid out more than €56m in redundancy or severance to staff, figures show
Details of these and other payments set out by Department of Transport in answer to series of parliamentary questions
Ten companies paid €58m to run unregulated accommodation for children in care last year
Two directors of one company running emergency accommodation for children in care shared €866,000 in remuneration
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