Back in their expensively refurbished Upper House, the talk was still resolutely cheap

Brother tells congregation motor neurone disease campaigner ‘left on his own terms’

Bid to curtail debate on Bill defeated by 26 votes to 24 in the Seanad

Government reviewing procurement policy introduced when country ’banjaxed’

Mixed reaction in Seanad to charging of one former British soldier over 1972 killings

Minister for Transport Shane Ross rejects claim of €33 million in liabilities

Cantillon: No Ministers went to Washington but Lane there to soak up cautionary mood

Justin McAleese to seek Fianna Fáil party nomination in Dublin Rathdown

Paschal Donohoe rules out special grant for workers to offset higher costs in the capital

Minister insists State should not own banks when capital markets willing to do so

Dr Dennis Jennings says individuals must be given access to data the State holds on them

Officials face tough questioning on corporation tax plan at Oireachtas inquiry

HQ closely monitoring local organisations and likely candidates ahead of next election

Perfect chinese penmanship and stress relief share the corridors of power with portly rats

Clonskeagh building was opened in 1996 by then president Mary Robinson

Independent Senator calls on Ireland not to sign European Union-Canada agreement

Kerry TD refuses to give up seat in dispute delaying return of electronic voting in Dáil

FG Senator Catherine Noone re-elected on 25th count, FF’s Cllr Catherine Ardagh also in

Long serving Labour councillor Jane Dillon Byrne narrowly missed out on final seat