Former taoiseach said urban areas paying more while rural residents are ‘in receipt of a lot of subsidies others don’t get’

Former taoiseach sparked backlash after saying people of urban Ireland were ‘paying all the bills’

Former Department of Health head expected to be approved by Cabinet on Tuesday

When cost rental is excluded from data, increase in private tenancies is actually much lower than claimed, says Sinn Féin

Former top civil servant’s €297,000 Department of Health salary was subject of controversy after initial appointment

President’s attendance at Barcelona gathering indicates she plans to shape her own political programme

President strongly defends UN and warns democracy is under threat while attending Barcelona gathering of left-leaning leaders

Catherine Connolly will meet Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, but not her counterpart, the king of Spain

Ministers and TDs rally behind Taoiseach, but 25, mostly rural, TDs did not respond to Irish Times poll

Jim O’Callaghan ally John Lahart joins other party figures in backing FF leader a day after the party’s three youngest TDs voice criticism

Three Fianna Fáil TDs issue statement strongly criticising direction of party

‘We must face that reality that the social contract is strained to breaking point,’ says trio of representatives

Kerry TD charged the Government with having ‘let the people down’ and `losing its way, not listening'

Sharp exchanges in Dáil debate as Coalition accused of ‘abandoning the Irish people’ by Mary Lou McDonald amid fuel crisis

Coalition denies latest measures a direct response to blockades, but faces further headaches