Any drift towards the right could be disastrous for Europe’s climate agenda
It’s not just the ‘far right’ who weaponise climate policies for politically opportunistic reasons
Michael Fitzmaurice
Michael Fitzmaurice becomes third TD to join ‘Independent Ireland’ party
New grouping with Michael Collins and Richard O’Donoghue offers ‘common sense’ to voters, Fitzmaurice says
Miriam Lord’s political awards for 2023
Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?
New farmers’ political party has become ‘serious discussion point’ in Oireachtas
Contentious issues among disaffected rural voters include turf-cutting, nitrates, bog rewetting, roads investment and forestry privatisation
Sitting TDs assess re-election chances after losing key areas in constituency review
New calculus for Michael Fitzmaurice, Paul Kehoe, Aindrias Moynihan and Cathal Berry after population shifts
EU rewetting proposal could ‘destroy the fabric of rural Ireland’, Galway meeting hears
More than 350 farmers attend public meeting in Ballinasloe on Sunday raising concerns
‘It feels like we’re being bullied’ - farmer on rewetting peatland ahead of next EU vote
Farmers - for and against the rewetting of peat farmland - talk about their hopes and fears on the eve of the next vote on the nature restoration law at the European Parliament on Tuesday
A Dutch warning: Disconnection from Dublin feeds rural discontent
Recent protests in Co Clare show that small-town Ireland is about more than just farmers
Diarmaid Ferriter: The ‘opposite of the Greens’ party will serve no one
Farmers have mobilised for years around the theme of rural neglect. Any new rural political party has to offer something more than simply 'opposite to the Greens'
Odds stacked against a new farmers’ party
Many independents unlikely to give up control over their own vote
Independent TD proposes setting up ‘rural political party’
Independent TD says an Irish rural party could emulate success of Dutch farmers’ party in recent elections
Government’s vacant homes tax ‘so low it is actually laughable’ - Holly Cairns
Social Democrats leader describes tax as ‘tokenistic’ and claims it is intended to maintain ‘status quo’
Parents of three-year-old in west of Ireland waiting 10 months for blood test result, Dáil hears
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice says blood sent to England for analysis but family received no results
Eamon Ryan says Ireland must ‘follow the science’ on peat briquettes
Regulations will have to be introduced in the autumn for smokey coal, Minister tells Dáil
Carbon budgets to help halve emissions passed in Dáil without a vote
Emissions ceilings to be decided for economic sectors once budgets come into effect
Excise duties on petrol and diesel should be cut to combat inflation, industry says
Reductions would be offset by a rise in VAT income, FFI tells Minister
Miriam Lord’s Week: Dáil assured Santa won’t be caught in Brexit red tape
TDs and Senators pose with their pets and Howlin marks a special anniversary
Miriam Lord: Joe Duffy sleeps in oxygen tent to prepare for reaction to free contraceptives
Outbreak of civility as Ministers unveil Budget 2022, with even SF toning it down
Tax move decried as ‘shameful to legacy of our 1916 leaders’ by Independent TD
Move on corporate tax ‘appeased our EU masters’, and is ‘just the beginning’, says Nolan
Bus Éireann working ‘intensively’ to secure school transport
Some services continue to operate at 50% capacity due to Covid-19 health advice
Bord na Móna making progress in move from brown to green
Transition cannot be denied, as 80% of its operations now focus on renewable energy
People who receive vaccines not approved by EMA must enter hotel quarantine, Dáil told
More than 8,000 people have been through system since March, with 376 positive tests
Farmers to seek assurances on effect of rewetting bogs on lands
Bord na Móna plans to rewet 31,000 hectares of bog to be used as carbon sinks
Galway nursing home sees 26 out of 28 residents test positive for Covid-19
One nurse and one carer working 13-hour shifts looking after 24 residents, says director
Taoiseach says ‘difficult and tough six weeks ahead’ as country begins lockdown
Independent TDs Fitzmaurice and McNamara appeal for marts to be allowed to remain open
Coronavirus: 518 more cases as Holohan warns of ‘significant’ reverse
‘It is vital we do everything in our power now to arrest the current trajectory,’ says CMO
Covid-19: Calleary calls for understanding on teachers with high-risk conditions
Dáil hears claims children being left ‘on the side of the road’ over lack of school transport
First climate action Bill passed by Dáil, Seanad is ‘statement of intent’ - Eamon Ryan
€500m fund established to invest in projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over next decade
Rural TDs voice anger over decision to keep pubs closed
Leo Varadkar said reopening depends on Covid-19 numbers as he faced angry TDs
Mary Kenny no longer taking part in festival after questioning ‘draconian’ travel rules
Journalist who was due to travel from England to Roscommon says Covid-19 not the Black Death
TDs call on Government to extend maternity leave benefits
Brid Smith says new mothers had been left ‘isolated’ from support services
Independents offered Jackie Healy-Rae style deal to support new coalition
Taoiseach makes offer at meeting attended by leaders of Fianna Fáil and Green Party
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil inch towards government formation
Greens’ internal issues have made Labour a more attractive option as coalition partners
Regional Independent Group of TDs most likely target to be partners in coalition
Members of the group reluctant to enter coalition with the two larger parties without another small party
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