Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Dublin City Council move shows impact of local elections

Nominations for the leadership contest officially opened on Thursday morning

Jack Chambers’s star on the rise in Fianna Fáil

Minister for Children has slight advantage as race begins to succeed Eamon Ryan

Roderic O’Gorman cites his accomplishments as Minister for Children, while Pippa Hackett says party needs ‘non-Dublin leader’

Nerve-jangling continues amid much-changed Dáil but sense of pre-prepped choreography to some of the political dance

Winner to face challenge of rebounding from the party’s poor results in the local and European elections

Expect a two or three-week campaign involving hustings in different locations and votes from across the island

Eamon Ryan, who resigned on Monday, said he would remain ‘completely neutral’ with majority of party’s councillors supporting O’Gorman

Potential candidates likely to include Roderic O’Gorman, Pippa Hackett, Ossian Smith and Steven Matthews

O’Gorman and Hackett possible contenders to succeed Ryan as Green leader

Minister can prioritise or not prioritise issues that might affect you in health, transport or housing

Ex-Green Party aide and one-time special adviser to Eoghan Murphy, Jack O’Donnell among names recruited by incoming taoiseach

Green Minister Pippa Hackett said this week wolves would be ‘shot’ if they were reintroduced, but how great a threat to farming would they be?

Pippa Hackett says State isn’t yet capable of coping with wolves amid debate over protection of the predators

Minister predicts officials will issue 4,200 licences in 2024

Problem threatens €1.3bn Government plan, says forestry industry

OPW intends to preserve all trees on the Leinster House campus ‘for as long as possible’

Department of Agriculture and Forestry criticised for failure to contain problem which could wipe out 90% of native ash trees

Government gives green light for a €1.3bn new afforestation programme