Heather Humphreys

The Our Living Islands initiative is a chance for the West Cork island to attract permanent residents - young people and families - and not just holiday homeowners

Other Irish businesses have links to a state with a much-maligned human rights record

Grant changes to come as part of Government’s new national islands policy, the first in 27 years

Leitrim County Council seeks to attract 700 jobs to Carrick Business Park after demise of call centre employing 1,200

Tánaiste Micheál Martin secures approval for Ireland to participate in four European Defence Agency projects

Search resumes at Bragan Bog, Co Monaghan, to find Columba McVeigh who was 19 years old when he was abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1975

Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has said the situation the State was facing was ‘unprecedented’, with over 100,000 people having arrived from Ukraine and elsewhere over the last year

Government plans to put auto-enrolment pension scheme in place to help diffuse pensions time bomb

Ireland is in the tricky position of guarding the infrastructure of the internet

‘This is a priority for me,’ says Minister for Social Protection

Minister for Social Protection will announce expansion on Thursday following overwhelmingly positive evaluation of school meals programme

Minister for Agriculture to bring memo to Cabinet with fresh recommendations for control of dogs

Further €13m in funding announced for Town and Village Renewal Scheme due to its success

Irish Government represented at 30th anniversary commemoration of attack that killed two children

Co-working spaces help provide a better quality of life and collaboration among their users, which vary from med-tech professionals to lawyers

Energy company reveals likely carbon emissions impact of flights by Irish Ministers

London mayor Sadiq Khan says political upheaval of recent years never “soured relations” with Irish and Brotish people as it had with politicians

Drug talk and a pirate appearance soon overtaken by Soc Dems co-leaders’ exit announcement

Business groups give Government announcement a broad welcome but others saying once-off measures for struggling households do not go far enough

Coalition leaders and Ministers set to finalise measures likely to amount to less than €1bn

Micheál Martin reiterates there will be ‘no cliff edge’ for supports

Sinn Féin brought forward a motion calling for a spring bonus for those reliant on social welfare payments

Rehab said it could not afford the €900,000 cost of honouring agreement

Consultation launched on tiered approach to ‘soften cliff edge’ after job loss

Heather Humphreys said people not receiving social welfare payments ‘also need help’

Anxiety in Government as all but 41 of 1,316 applications last year came from people in China amid geopolitical tumult

O’Gorman to seek Cabinet approval to change the legal status of childminders, enabling the National Childcare Scheme to be opened to more parents

Employers group believes efforts to introduce pension for all next year will be too disruptive for business

Briefing documents for Minister concede there is little chance of meeting Government’s self-imposed deadline

Minister is getting a chance Fine Gael denied Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Phil Hogan

Ministers will also consider €50 million fund for communities helping refugees

Heather Humphreys urged companies to take steps after Irish Times report revealed concerning comments to female politicians

Minister for Environment Eamon Ryan to tell Cabinet there is no current concern or risk around stocks

A €12 increase in maximum rate of all core weekly payments is largest increase in over a decade

Taoiseach pledges to go “all out” to address the housing crisis, comparing the response needed to the kind of action seen during the Covid-19 pandemic

Review recommends Ireland should consider moving to European-style ‘universal school meals’ model

The rates paid to suppliers - 60 cents for breakfast, €1.40 for lunch and €1.90 for dinner - have not changed since the school meals programme was launched in 2003

As Martin and Varadkar swap jobs, The Irish Times political team casts a critical eye over the performance of ministers since the Coalition came into power in 2020

Reforms expected to include revised disclosure obligations for senior public officials and inclusion of the judiciary in a consolidated regime for standards in public life

Ice and low temperature warnings due to come into effect from Thursday