Another political showdown now looks likely between the combined Opposition parties and the Michael Lowry-led group of six Independent TDs over Dáil speaking rights. The first meeting of the ...
Independent TD Michael Lowry has asked for permission to address the Dáil to respond to allegations made about him by Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty. Mr Lowry told RTÉ's This Week that he ...
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to the Taoiseach urging him to immediately reconvene the Dáil to address the crisis facing the country in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn. Ms ...
One of the questions we political journalists get asked a lot on the rare occasions we are invited into polite company is about the true nature of politicians: what are they really like?
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The opposition – who won the bitter dispute after the Speaker of the Dail weighed in – criticised the Government over house-building claims and its efforts to restore power to 700,000 ...
John Manley has spent the vast bulk of his 25 year-plus journalistic career with The Irish News. He has been the paper's Political Correspondent since 2012, having previously worked as a Business ...
A spokesperson for the Government Chief Whip seemed to suggest that the opposition was "holding the Dail to ransom" by not accepting the offer currently on the table. "At all times the Government ...
The recent Mitchell McDermott Annual Construction Sector Report warns that housing output could be as low as 32,000 units this year ...
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TAOISEACH Micheal Martin has been accused of abusing the Ceann Comhairle’s lack of understanding of the Irish language by calling Mary Lou McDonald a liar as Gaeilge in a Dail bust up.