Footwear, driving, ‘key holding’: €30m paid in allowances to Department of Foreign Affairs staff
Payments made to cover ‘additional indirect costs’ involved in representational role of diplomatic staff
Foreign Affairs Committee
Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill
Committee meeting on Friday to finalise report
Draft occupied territories Bill not expected to cover banning trade in services, says Frances Black
Independent Senator would like to see draft legislation extend beyond banning trade in goods with occupied Palestinian territories
Naval Service monitoring transit of Russian warships through Irish-controlled waters
Vessels, believed to be en route to live-fire exercise, shadowed by US and UK
Coveney has a bad habit of making small mistakes into bigger ones
Zappone affair and now celebration at Iveagh House both poorly handled, writes Pat Leahy
Oireachtas Committee poised to decide on questioning Coveney
Foreign affairs event in lockdown prompts calls from Opposition to interview Minister
Facebook should face questions from TDs on ethnic violence, says Sinn Féin TD
Whistle-blower Frances Haugen alleges company is ‘fanning the flames of violence’
Katherine Zappone controversy: Timeline of events
How it happened: Controversy over UN special envoy role
‘Perspective’ needed on Zappone appointment, Taoiseach says
Martin expects FOI release as well as Coveney appearance at Oireachtas Committee to clarify issue
Irish abroad with Chinese vaccine want hotel quarantine exemption
Vaccine approved by WHO but not EMA, and immunologist warns of variants like Delta
Irish teachers with Chinese-made vaccine face mandatory quarantine
More than 16,400 applications received for passports in the past week, says Coveney
Oireachtas committee urges American Irish Society to stop building sale
Charlie Flanagan says society building on Fifth Avenue is source of diaspora pride
Speed of Covid vaccine rollout will decide our economic fate in 2021
As the UK will discover post Brexit, economies are enhanced by connection and how we reconnect ourselves will impact on the speed of economic recovery
Love is not in the air for Fianna Fáil over confidence-and-supply deal
Inside Politics: Party rolled its eyes when John McGuinness was on radio
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