Brian Hayes

Minister for Health James Reilly has said the Dáil should sit late into the summer if nec(...)

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: under pressure over high-level garda briefing

Leading Opposition figures and academics have said significant questions remain surroundi(...)

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(...)

The Dáil chamber. “A reformed Dáil both can and should perform all of the roles of the Seanad more effectively and more cheaply.” Photograph: Alan Betson

If the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has proved one thing, it is that modern Ireland cannot be governed effectively by a political system design(...)

 Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton who today published the Social Welfare and Pension Bill

Thousands of workers face the loss of pension benefits as a result of the Government’s failure to address the priority order of entitlement for(...)

File image of  Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / THE IRISH TIMES

The issue of privacy needs a “longer and wider” discussion and might be addressed by an Oireachtas committee, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has told t(...)

 Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. He said Mr Shatter had “tried to ridicule us, skew the debate, misrepresent us and show a level of disrespect to us as elected representatives.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter appeared to have drawn a line under the political row surrounding his disclosure of confidential information(...)

Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. “Most came to the realisation that the the political row surrounding Shatter was petering out.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Alan Shatter brought a new concept to the world of Irish politics last night: the nonapology apology. After five days of controversy over(...)

Screen grab of Minister for Justice Alan Shatter speaking in the Dáil this evening

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has told the Dáil there was “nothing sinister” in the way in which he acquired information that Independent T(...)

 Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at at Citizenship Ceremony in Dublin yesterday. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times

The modern era and the advent of instant communications has thrown up a number of new political rules, all conceived by another modern phenomen(...)

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