Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was standing in yesterday  for the Taoiseach, who was in Brussels explaining that an Apple a day helps the multinationals stay. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

It was Eamon’s turn to defend the indefensible yesterday. Enda set the bar low for him on Tuesday with his defence of Alan Shatter’s worr(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams: Government “took its eye off this most important issue”. Photograph: Peter Morrison

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he would discuss concerns about the peace process raised by the Sinn Féin leader when he meets senio(...)

Decisions made by the British government were seriously undermining the Belfast Agreement and the work of the political institutions, Sinn Féin(...)

In the infamous words of Gerry Adams from some years back, “It hasn’t gone away you know.” I’m referring to measles rather than a paramilitary orga(...)

Kieran McLoughlin (centre), president and chief executive of The American Ireland Fund, with from left, delegates Caitlin McCormick (New York), Reilly O’Connor (Washington DC),  Jennifer Carroll (Dublin) and John Travers (Dublin) at the The Ireland Funds Inaugural Global Young Leaders Forum held in Farmleigh, Phoenix Park in June 2010. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

The US State Department’s prolific communications department is proof of the influence that the United States aims to have on world affairs. It(...)

Oliver and Austin Stack, sons of Brian Stack, the only prison officer to be assassinated in the Republic, after they met Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at Leinster House, Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The sons of murdered prison officer Brian Stack held a “productive and forthright” meeting with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams i(...)

Alex White, Minister of State at the Department of Health. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Thank heavens for Alex – Enda’s white haired boy. He’s very bright, you know. He’s a lawyer. And a senior counsel, to boot. (...)

 President Michael D Higgins said Europe faced a “moral crisis” and called on European leaders to undertake a radical rethink about how they are handling the economic crisis. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

President Michael D Higgins’s forthright criticism of the European Union’s response to the financial crisis represents a direct intervention in(...)

Clare Daly: criticised the requirement for three doctors. Photograph: Frank Miller

Claims the Government’s legislation to deal with the X case will open the floodgates to abortion are alarmist, the Dáil has heard. Taoise(...)

When Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath started to ask questions about the economy in the Dáil yesterday, the Taoiseach looked almost grateful. Photograph: Alan Betson

A good day for Ireland? Maybe. A great day for Ryanair? Definitely. With an airline ticket in one hand and a 14-year prison sentence in t(...)

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