Lack of housing in Limerick more concerning than hotel shortage for Ryder Cup - mayor
New directly elected mayor of Limerick to push for the delivery of 1,000 modular homes as part of five-year programme to be finalised this month
Parents of babies born in December to receive treble child benefit payment
Budget 2025: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald challenges Taoiseach to ‘bring it on’ and name general election date
Millions for Olympians, dog control, ‘forgotten farmers’: nine budget measures you may have missed
Budget 2025: Funding for chicken pox vaccines and an embassy in Serbia and tax relief for strawberry wine producers are also included
New tax on vapes and cost of most popular cigarette brands to hit €18.05
Budget 2025: The new tax is the latest in a series of measures aimed at discouraging the use of vapes
Budget 2025: What we know so far – from tax cuts to pension increases and free schoolbooks
This year’s measures will be framed around tax and spending package of €8.3bn, with cost-of-living bundle worth roughly €1.5bn
Budget 2025: Many families to gain by thousands of euro in giveaway
Extra billions to be invested in water, housing and energy from the proceeds of bank shares
Budget 2025: Parents of newborns to receive triple child benefit payment
Maternity and paternity benefit to increase by €15 a week, welfare payments to increase by €12 while student grants to go up by 15%
Irish troops in Lebanon will remain in place to continue monitoring and humanitarian work
Ireland currently has up to 375 troops in South Lebanon where it has been part of the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil) since 1978
Budget 2025: Inheritance tax threshold to hit €400,000 under giveaway
Households to benefit from extension to reduced 9% VAT rate on energy bills into next year
Budget 2025: Tax cut, mortgage interest relief and other measures in Coalition’s final roll of the dice
USC, inheritance tax, childcare, child benefit, social welfare, college fees, VAT rate: How the budget will affect parents, students, renters, mortgage holders, farmers, pensioners and carers
Sinn Féin’s Ardfheis hears concerns over party’s backing of failed family and care referendums
Sinn Féin’s ruling body will have to call a special conference to determine party’s position on future referendums after motion passed by delegates
Sinn Féin to examine ‘limited’ success in increasing ‘activist’ membership
Motion from party’s ruling body calling for review of party structures passed by delegates
Q&A: the ban on XL bully dogs - why is it happening and what will it mean for dog owners?
Government is bringing in ban as a direct response to a number of horrific attacks on people in recent years
Occupied Territories Bill: Coalition Ministers note ICJ opinion on illegal Israeli settlements
Proposed law, advanced in 2018, aims at banning imports from Israeli settlements on Palestinian land
Women not to lose out on maternity leave entitlements if ‘seriously ill’ under proposed law
Planned legislation brought to Cabinet today will cover cancer, other serious physical and mental health ailments