People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett during a protest earlier this year against the sale of Coillte harvesting rights. He said it was clear that people cared about the sale of the country’s natural resources. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

A series of walks in Coillte woodlands will be held next month to protest at proposals to sell the harvesting rights to Ire(...)

Vincent Dowling: credited with launching Tom Hanks’s career, having directed him in a student production at California State University. Photograph: Tony Gavin

The actor and director Vincent Dowling came to national prominence as “Christy” in the long-running Raidió Éireann soap (...)

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(...)

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett leaving court yesterday.

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett was spared a conviction yesterday despite admitting a speeding offence. He appeared at Dubli(...)

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Labour all make zero returns – indicating that the parties’ fundraising is geared towards raising money through encouraging multiple donations worth €126 or less.  Photograph:  Frank Miller

The Standards in Public Office Commission said yesterday that files had been sent to the gardaí in relation to the People Before (...)

The Central Bank

Banks have been using 17-year-old legislation to unilaterally impose increased charges on customers without having to seek app(...)

Fianna Fáil’s  Seán Fleming said the rejection of the deal by the country’s largest trade union Siptu was “a significant blow” to the Government’s hopes of achieving additional savings.

Opposition parties tonight rounded on the Government as it failed to secure an agreement on public sector pay – with Fianna Fáil branding the c(...)

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin. Photo: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

The proposed regulator of the National Lottery may eventually be tasked with overseeing the State’s entire gambling industry, (...)

An elderly man sits in front of a closed branch of Bank of Cyprus as a youth makes a transaction at an ATM in Nicosia today. Labour MEP
Nessa Childers described as a “terrible mistake” a bailout deal which includes small Cypriot depositors. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters.

GENEVIEVE CARBERY Labour MEP Nessa Childers has called for EU economics commissioner Olli Rehn to resign over the Cypriot bailout. (...)

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett noted the pope’s choice of the name Francis. St Francis, he said, was the son of a wealthy merchant who repudiated wealth, and the Government should take a leaf out of his book.  Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

The Meath East byelection is in full swing in Leinster House. Canvassing is intense, whether by way of measured contribution or heckle. (...)

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