Helen McEntee: welcomed the  announcement by Mr Coveney that a further 170 loads of hay and silage would be imported in the next week

Recently elected Fine Gael TD Helen McEntee gave her maiden speech in the Dáil last night to applause from all sides of the Ho(...)

Brian Walsh TD: has indicated he will break with Fine Gael over abortion

The first Fine Gael Deputy to indicate publicly he will not support the Government’s proposed abortion legislation has said he(...)

James Lawless, editor of Cuisle, the Fianna Fáil newsletter, at his stand on the second day of the party’s 74th Ardfeis in the RDS. Photograph: Alan Betson

This will go down as one of the most nondescript of the 74 ardfheiseanna that Fianna Fáil has held. There was none of the messianic adul(...)

“We may close but someone had to say to the HSE and the Department of Health that it isn’t acceptable that there is no independent watchdog examining the health system,” says Dr Hilary Dunne , chief executive of the Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Health. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

The Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Health (ISQSH) has put staff on protective notice following the HSE’s decision to end(...)

Miche
ál Martin: allies say his support for the fiscal treaty was astute, likewise the decision not to contest the presidential election. Photograph: Alan Betson

Fianna Fáil’s ardfheis opens tonight in Dublin, the second since the party’s abject defeat in the 2011 election. The gathering comes amid resur(...)

New TD Helen McEntee. Photograph: Alan Betson

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter smiled broadly. There was not a judge in sight. The recipient was the new TD for Meath East, Helen McEn(...)

Gerry Adams TD with Pearse Doherty TD and Mary Lou McDonald TD arriving at the Sinn Féin ardfheis in the TF Royal Hotel and Theatre, Castlebar, Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan/Phocus

Analysis:  In 1926, Éamon de Valera found himself on the wrong side of a narrowly decided vote by Sinn Féin to continue its policy of abstenti(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has criticised  comments regarding Helen McEntee’s taking of her late father’s Dáil seat. “I think that remark was entirely inappropriate,” he said. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The  Irish  Times

A Sinn Féin councillor has apologised for accusing a newly elected TD of a cynical approach to politics in the wake of her father’s suicid(...)

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore had her support as leader of the Labour Party and he  was doing a “very strong job for Ireland”  as Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has her support as leader of the Labour Party and added he was doing a “(...)

Nessa Childers arriving with Liz Mc Manus to the European Parliament election count at Punchestown in June 2009. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times.

MARK HILLIARD MEP Nessa Childers has said any assertion by the Labour leadership that her resignation from the party was not a tough dec(...)

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