A study of how alternative electoral systems would work in Ireland has found they most markedly favour the largest political party in Ireland a(...)

Minister of State at the Department of Health Alex White: my area of responsibility is primary care, the first port of call for citizens seeking access to the health services. Photograph: Alan Betson

Since I was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health last October, many have asked me whether I felt I had been handed a “poison(...)

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter’s remark about Independent TD Mick Wallace “has had a political impact far beyond its seemingly throwaway nature. It has raised serious issue surrounding ministerial power, rights and responsibilities.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

The word hypocrisy has been bandied around in the continuing row over penalty points. It has been applied (correctly) to Roscommon Deputy Luke (...)

The Seanad chamber. “The Government decision this week to allow the Seanad Reform Bill 2013 to pass to committee stage without a vote arose for reasons of realpolitik rather than from any commitment to reform.” Photograph: Alan Betson

Events and debates this week in the Seanad and within the Fine Gael parliamentary party illustrate the complexity involved in parliamentary ref(...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny speaking aboout the proposed abortion legislation before a recent Cabinet meeting. He has staked his political reputation on getting the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill passed before the summer recess. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill

The determination of Taoiseach Enda Kenny to keep his troops in line for the passage of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 through b(...)

Spain’s Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias Canete (left) talks Simon Coveney at the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council at the EU Council in Brussels on Monday. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

Anything good in Die Welt this week? Simon Coveney made the daily briefing notes column on Thursday thanks to the hours he put in during (...)

Germany calling: Enda Kenny at a press conference in Berlin. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty

A senior Fine Gael figure smiles as he muses on Enda Kenny’s reluctance to fill the vacancy for junior agriculture minister, a post that has be(...)

The entrance to Beggars Bush on Shelbourne Road. Image: Google Maps

Dublin City Council has said it provides a liaison service to a residential complex in which a man was found dead after five weeks alone in his(...)

Issues arising from the reform of the Seanad or its abolition have not been adequately debated. In the absence of public discussion, the Govern(...)

As the largest party in the Oireachtas, Fine Gael came top of the list for state funding with a total of € 4.9 million paid to the party last year. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The
Irish Times

Political parties received almost €14 million in state funding last year, according to official figures released today by the Standards Commiss(...)

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