Micheál Martin apologises to Fianna Fáil over disastrous presidential election campaignAnger at Fianna Fáil no longer having candidate after Jim Gavin stopped campaigning following rent rowWed Oct 08 2025 - 21:48
FF politicians to demand answers from Micheál Martin on Jim Gavin’s campaign implosionAnger and disappointment set to be vented at party meeting where Taoiseach will face questionsWed Oct 08 2025 - 06:00
Budget 2026: All we know so far about childcare fees, Christmas bonus payment, renters tax and fuel allowance One-off cost-of-living measures seen in recent budgets are being dropped as part of efforts to rein in spendingTue Oct 07 2025 - 06:05
Jim Gavin withdraws from presidential electionFianna Fáil candidate’s move leaves Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly in race for ÁrasMon Oct 06 2025 - 06:49
Third-level student fees ‘to be cut by €500 permanently in Budget’Another €12 weekly rise in core welfare payments in doubt as talks go down to wireMon Oct 06 2025 - 06:00
Connolly seen as the front-runner and Humphreys faces scrutiny: Five takeaways from Sunday’s presidential debateFlying barbs and awkward questions on The Week in Politics, but all agree on the Trump queryMon Oct 06 2025 - 00:36
Jim Gavin ‘looking into’ allegation he owes former tenant €3,300‘I will deal with it with urgency’, Fianna Fáil candidate says during latest presidential election debateSun Oct 05 2025 - 17:45
Budget 2026: Doubts over €12-a-week welfare hike as personal tax cuts ruled out Lower student fees and rise in income thresholds for grants remain on table with talks going to wireSat Oct 04 2025 - 06:00
Paschal Donohoe confirms no personal tax changes to be made in budget Minister for Finance says focus will be on tax measures that keep jobs in the country and enhance Ireland’s competitivenessFri Oct 03 2025 - 19:27
Next presidential election TV debate should be a decidedly more lively affairYour essential end-of-week politics catch upFri Oct 03 2025 - 18:57
Budget 2026: Public-transport fares set to remain at reduced level next year DPER understood to be pushing back against indefinite freeze but full reversal to highest level of fares is not likelyFri Oct 03 2025 - 06:00
Sinn Féin alternative Budget 2026 includes €450 energy credit and cuts to USC and college feesSocial Democrats propose €15 increase to weekly welfare payments while Labour would extend free public transport to all under-18sThu Oct 02 2025 - 06:00
Budget 2026: No changes to personal income tax plannedProposed €9.4bn package ‘poses a risk of overheating the economy’, oversight committee warnsThu Oct 02 2025 - 06:00
Budget 2026: €400 energy credit, welfare increases and cut to high-earner tax credit among Social Democrats’ proposalsSocial Democrats would seek to drive down cost-of-livingWed Oct 01 2025 - 17:45
Presidential campaigns spend more than €17,000 advertising onlineOnline political campaigns likely to be affected as Meta plans to stop running such advertising in EU from early this monthWed Oct 01 2025 - 15:54
Ministers in fraught negotiations over tightest budget in yearsSenior Ministers yet to settle financial positions for 2026 as budget day loomsWed Oct 01 2025 - 06:00
Garda unit dedicated to Troubles-era legacy issues to be operational by year-endDarragh O’Brien to seek agreement to develop draft legislation allowing him to remove Dublin Airport’s passenger capTue Sept 30 2025 - 06:00
Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin will waive pension entitlements if they win presidential electionPresident Micheal D Higgins waived his Oireachtas and ministerial pensions during his two terms in officeTue Sept 30 2025 - 06:00
TDs and Senators warned about block-booking Leinster House toursOne politician’s office provisionally booked 118 tour slots at Leinster House, Oireachtas authorities sayFri Sept 26 2025 - 06:00
‘I was hoping for Paul Mescal,’ tourist says after meeting Jim Gavin on campaign trailBut Fianna Fáil candidate has different star power as he brings GAA fame and vision for Áras to South DublinThu Sept 25 2025 - 21:16
Jim Gavin ‘didn’t see’ bullying or sexism during Defence Forces careerFianna Fáil presidential candidate says Women of Honour group has done State a service by highlighting abuse in organisationThu Sept 25 2025 - 16:31
Maria Steen complains she was shut out of presidential race after nominations shortfallAontú leader Peadar Tóibín says Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and others ‘pulled up the ladder’ to stop conservative from challenging themWed Sept 24 2025 - 20:04
Inside Politics: Steen races against the clock to join Áras contestConservative campaigner seeking two more nominations to get on the ballotWed Sept 24 2025 - 08:36
Presidential candidate Jim Gavin says online claims about him are ‘obvious lies’Derogatory posts about former Dublin GAA manager were shared on social media without provision of any evidenceTue Sept 23 2025 - 18:00
Violence ‘never justified’: Catherine Connolly responds to question on IRA campaignPresidential candidate denies being ‘equivocal’ on Hamas and condemns genocide in GazaTue Sept 23 2025 - 14:47
Independent Ireland backs nomination of Maria Steen to contest presidential electionIntervention will be a boost to conservative commentator as she continues to seek 20 Oireachtas nominations needed Tue Sept 23 2025 - 12:48
Presidential election: How many nominations do Independent candidates have so far?The deadline for candidates seeking to contest the election to file their nomination papers is September 24thSat Sept 20 2025 - 06:00
Green Party backs Independent candidate Catherine Connolly for presidencyMinister of State Michael Healy-Rae will nominate conservative campaigner Maria Steen for ballot Fri Sept 19 2025 - 21:53
Jim Gavin survives gate-gate as mystery over Sinn Féin’s presidential endorsement deepensMichael D Higgins and Irish Government were at odds again in the week where the Dáil returnedFri Sept 19 2025 - 18:17
Sinn Féin will endorse presidential candidate with ‘plenty of Irish’, says McDonaldMary Lou McDonald says announcement on Saturday will be a ‘game changer’Thu Sept 18 2025 - 17:34
On Dáil’s first day back, Eoin Hayes looked lost and unsure where to sitIndependent Ireland’s Michael Collins asked for minute’s silence for assassinated Charlie KirkWed Sept 17 2025 - 21:52
Opposition wants fresh round of household electricity credits in Budget 2026Help needed amid rising energy bills and ‘cost-of-living crisis’, say Sinn Féin and LabourWed Sept 17 2025 - 19:31
Taoiseach accepts ‘shortcomings’ in children’s surgery provision as Opposition goes on attackMary Lou McDonald raised case of the late Harvey Morrison Sherratt, saying he was failed by GovernmentWed Sept 17 2025 - 18:41
174 overseas researchers express interest in coming to Ireland under new schemeCabinet to be briefed on initiative, as well as move to appoint more judgesWed Sept 17 2025 - 06:00
New Eoin Hayes controversy overshadows Holly Cairns’ return to political frontline Social Democrats leader confirmed TD would not face action for ‘blackface’ incident 16 years agoTue Sept 16 2025 - 18:00
Eoin Hayes to remain a member of Social Democrats despite ‘blackface’ controversyIndications of unrest as two Dublin activists have left the party, in part, citing Dublin Bay South TD’s fresh controversyTue Sept 16 2025 - 16:12
Presidential election: Several councils close off route to nomination for Independents Conservative campaigner Maria Steen tells Dublin City Council she can be a ‘unifying president’Mon Sept 15 2025 - 21:58
Maria Steen’s route to nomination to contest presidential election narrows Conservative campaigner struggling to get support of 20 Oireachtas members or four local authorities to get on ballot paperFri Sept 12 2025 - 18:33
Presidential election: Maria Steen said to have backing of 10 Oireachtas membersAontú politicians among those who have committed to nominating the conservative campaignerThu Sept 11 2025 - 20:55
Fianna Fáil backbenchers revolt to back ‘Netflix levy’ a ‘storm in a teacup’, says TDMalcolm Byrne seeks to play down dispute over levy which Fine Gael Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan has opposedThu Sept 11 2025 - 17:16
Taoiseach accuses Sinn Féin of ‘nasty’ attack on Jim Gavin over Gaza remarksPearse Doherty TD describes comments of presidential candidate as ‘shocking’ and ‘disgraceful’Thu Sept 11 2025 - 14:50
Four presidential hopefuls set to make pitches for nomination to TDs and SenatorsEleven Oireachtas members expected to meet with a view to potentially coalescing behind a candidate to help them enter the raceWed Sept 10 2025 - 18:07
Support for Catherine Connolly presidential campaign solidifying among Sinn Féin TDsGareth Sheridan and Maria Steen set to make presidential election pitches to Fingal County Council Wed Sept 10 2025 - 06:00
Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin ‘has all the credentials to be fine president’ - Billy KelleherMEP, who had contested party’s presidential nomination, says he will canvas every day he can for fomer Dublin football managerTue Sept 09 2025 - 15:29
Jim Gavin ‘honoured’ to be selected as Fianna Fáil presidential candidateParliamentary party voted by 41-29 favour of GAA stalwart over Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher Tue Sept 09 2025 - 12:27
Easing of garden cabin rules could have ‘unintended consequences’ for tenantsThreshold warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of Government proposalMon Sept 08 2025 - 06:00
Independent presidential hopefuls seek support of Kerry councillors, but Fine Gael stance now clearFianna Fáil yet to indicate if it will instruct councillors to not back independentsMon Sept 08 2025 - 06:00
Presidential hopefuls call on Fianna Fáil not to block their route to entering electionFine Gael has already told its councillors to oppose nomination of any other candidatesMon Sept 08 2025 - 06:00
Independent presidential hopefuls criticise Fine Gael plan to block council nominations Independents Nick Delehanty and Gavin Sheridan describe party’s move to narrow path for outsiders as undemocratic and disappointingSun Sept 07 2025 - 13:48
Varadkar questioned if lengthy ‘Leo the leak’ Garda inquiry was ‘someone’s revenge’Former taoiseach’s new book also discusses an incident where a video of him kissing in a nightclub emerged onlineSun Sept 07 2025 - 12:48
