Dara Calleary

Helen McEntee tells Dáil she is committed to reforming defamation law

Martin set to get his choice of cabinet posts while botched secondment could have repercussions for Donnelly

Focus on vaccination as 800,000 to become eligible for booster in March, Martin says

Minister tells Dáil he will apply all the penalties that are due if rollout targets not met

Coveney says staff numbers at service up 70 per cent since last June

Gathering took place after Ireland elected to the UN Security Council in June 2020

Martin to meet hospitality sector on State supports as TDs back call for their retention

Case could take up to five days in January, Clifden District Court hears

Government must address competing priorities on hot potato of old-age payment

Payment of €1.9m this year related to professional services withholding tax

National Development Plan, to be published on Monday, will include more than 50 projects with a price tag of more than €100m

Minister for Foreign Affairs acknowledges disruption but defends system against criticism

Meeting told Ireland has highest cumulative uptake of full vaccination among adults in the EU

Martin cites ‘challenges ahead’ with energy supplies but rules out banning new data centres

Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy face charges

Taoiseach says people aged 30-39 can register for Covid-19 vaccine ‘over the next day or two’

Vaccine rollout in coming weeks seen within party as crucial to position of Micheál Martin

Service in Wexford may have exerted pressure on the HSE, says Labour Party leader

Bill comprises radical action that strikes ‘fair, proportionate balance’, Donnelly tells Dáil

Lifting of restrictions complicated by UK variant now accounting for 90 per cent of Covid-19 cases

Party readmits three Golfgate Senators Buttimer, Burke and Cummins

The coalition leaders showed more competence in dealing with the big issues that faced them in winter, but with the virus still surging, they will undoubtedly face further enormous challenges in the coming year

2020 in review: Megxit, Weinstein, missing paddleboarders, Black Lives Matter: it wasn’t all Covid-19

Former EU commissioner critical of lack of ‘due process’ around controversy in August

2020 in review: A momentous year in politics will keep the historians of the future busy

Dara Calleary takes social protection role while Barry Cowen turns down climate job

Removing a judge by vote of both Houses of the Oireachtas would be a monumental step

Analysis: ‘This is a slow bicycle race towards a [leadership] contest likely in 2022’

Judge faces informal process after attending golf society dinner amid Covid restrictions

‘I apologise unreservedly, unreservedly and sincerely for attending the dinner’

He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good

Tánaiste reacts to suggestion made by Séamus Woulfe’s in Golfgate transcript

Analysis: Still no clear structure for addressing issues concerning conduct of judges

Judge ‘failed to consider’ whether attendance in middle of a pandemic ‘might be an impropriety’

Outcry after golf dinner centred on idea that attendees flouted rules which everyone else had to observe

Supreme Court judge should not have attended Clifden golf dinner, former chief justice says

Supreme Court judge’s fate hinges on Susan Denham’s report on attendance at golf event

Party veteran says low poll figures show organisation facing ‘existential crisis’

Supreme Court judge was accompanied by Senior Counsel for meeting with Susan Denham

Notwithstanding two important successes, the July stimulus plan and the reopening of schools, the coalition continues to show a remarkable propensity for self-harm