The sale of the harvesting rights for the country’s State-owned forests has been abandoned. Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said the Governmen(...)

Leading figures from the agri industry joined forces in Dublin this morning to put pressure on Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to get the best (...)

 Aengus Ó Snodaigh:“Every town, village and community and virtually every family has been affected by this tragic crisis.’’

One Irish child under 18 years died by suicide every 18 days, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh told the Dáil.“Moreover, the State has the fourth highest(...)

Joe Higgins said in the months that followed the 1913 Lockout the employers with great cruelty literally attempted to starve the working class of Dublin, in their determination to smash effective trade unionism.

The Government is introducing the reform and modernisation that is needed to balance workers’ rights with the need to create a competitive environment(...)

Crowds gather for the funerals of Kenny, Paul and Shane Bolger at Crooke church, Co Waterford today. Photograph: Mary Browne

The sea may in a very short time have taken the lives of the three Bolger brothers, Paul, Kenny and Shane, but the love they left behind will endure a(...)

 Paul Kehoe: Government Chief Whip accepted the appearance rate of relevant senior Minister to answer questions in the Dáil was unacceptably low and unsatisfactory. Photograph: Alan Betson

HARRY McGEEThe Government has admitted its performance on a key Dáil reform measure has been “deplorable”.It has also conceded that a promise not to r(...)

Agriculture minister Simon Coveney: initiated his Bill on animal welfare in the Seanad rather than the Dáil. Photograph: Getty

On RTÉ’s Six One News on Wednesday evening the Government fielded Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to argue the case for abolishing Seanad Éirea(...)

Tom Hayes TD was appointed the new Minister of State at the Dept of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, pictured at Government Buildings with An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Simon Coveney, TD. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

Two senior Labour Ministers have taken issue with claims by a newly appointed Fine Gael Minister of State that two key Government policy plans have(...)

British environment secretary Owen Patterson complained he was under “cyber-attack” in the run-up to an EU decision on whether to ban insecticides dee(...)

The Greencore sugar factory in Carlow, which closed when Ireland exited sugar production in 2006. Photograph: Alan Betson

Alison HealyFood and Farming CorrespondentIt was just one question in a wide-ranging breakfast briefing, but when Matt Cooper asked Greencore’s Patric(...)

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