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Charges carry potential prison term and fines of up to €100,000 under Belgian penal code

Fine Gael leader says party has succession plans in place with several long-serving TDs set to step down

National Association of Regional Game Councils claim move is not for protection of birds but motivated by animal rights agenda

Far from looking determined, the Coalition seems cowed by the challenge from Sinn Féin

Electoral Commission: Bigger parties, especially Sinn Féin, are likely to be happier with plans published

Sinn Féin on course to take at least one seat in almost all constituencies and will be in the running for multiple seats in many constituencies

Where the lines end up on the map and how many TDs are allocated to individual constituencies is the subject of fevered anticipation among TDs and would-be-deputies

Here are the factors likely to shape Irish politics between now and the next election

At a stroke of a pen, the transfer of electoral divisions could rob sitting TDs of crucial votes

Paul Murphy and Neasa Hourigan express concern over move by Defence Forces

Just under 105 of the 221 posts in the country’s three centres are filled

Survey by Irish Farmers Journal suggests three out of four farmers would support new farmers’ political party if one were to emerge

Farmers are in strange denial about the climate emergency partly because political parties, especially Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, have shaped their attitudes

Three parties remain neck-and-neck in the polls in advance of November’s election but leader of the farmers’ protest movement, the BBB, proves reluctant to take top job

August survey of voters: Fine Gael remains on 19%, Fianna Fáil down one to register 18 per cent with Green Party on 5%, up two

Leo Varadkar’s support for roads is nostalgia for a world suffocating on its own emissions

Fine Gael sources say the party is seeking a meeting with Eamon Ryan to discuss future roads projects and their belief that they are being undermined or abandoned

Q&A: What is it and why it was controversial?

Lack of political leadership in face of ongoing crisis

FG party meeting passes motion for meeting with Eamon Ryan over ‘withdrawal of funding’ for projects

Lack of a forestry programme leaves Ireland with devastating consequences

Eamon Ryan says communications over past 35 years have failed to deliver necessary response

Grace O’Sullivan was deckhand on Greenpeace ship which sank in attack by French secret services in 1985

Oil and gas and the rapidly unfolding global climate emergency

A vital national energy source

Conference told farmers need assurances their livelihoods aren’t threatened and short-term payments won’t be eroded in future

Ballyfermot councillor, who succeeds Green Party’s Caroline Conroy, will focus on ‘kindness and inclusivity’ while serving as 355th Lord Mayor

Ministers indicate refusing to use preferred pronouns will not be criminalised, as has been suggested

Greta Thunberg is also awarded Freedom of the City of Dublin

Think tank recommends maintaining current tax levels to protect social services and allow for additional investment in areas such as pensions, health and climate change

Political rows mean FRT will face pre-legislative scrutiny and further drafting before final legislation is published

Goal of legislation will be safe and ethical use of facial-recognition technology to help faster investigation of serious crimes subject to maximum sentence of life imprisonment

One-third of Government-appointed review group believe the non-jury court is no longer justified

In interview with The Irish Times, Leo Varadkar defends his leadership of Fine Gael and says three Coalition parties need to ‘stick together’

Drop in support for Fine Gael and Sinn Féin as Fianna Fáil and Social Democrats emerge as big winners in latest Irish Times/Ipsos opinion poll

Latest Irish Times opinion poll shows voters ready to adapt behaviour for climate change, and room to grow for the Greens

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is almost as popular among Fine Gael supporters as Leo Varadkar

Older people are key demographic for Sinn Féin while still popular among younger and working-class voters

Calls made for a return to the respectful discourse of the past

Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy will also honour environmentalist Duncan Stewart for his work on raising awareness about climate change