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

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(...)

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

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

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(...)

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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(...)

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(...)

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