Justine McCarthy: With Ireland on a knife edge, it’s a bad time for a brain drain from the Dáil
Potential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s home
Potential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s home
Minister says legislation is ‘end-game measure, signalling beginning of the end of tobacco in our country’
Taoiseach’s energetic approach has not stopped him allowing contentious issues to fall by the wayside
Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall, two of the founders of the Social Democrats, take a bow as the third founder hides in plain sight
Departures unlikely to signal any major policy change in the party given they both stepped down as co-leaders last year
TDs announce they will not stand for re-election, saying it is ‘time for a new generation to take over’
Judicial Council’s recommendations still not published almost five years after establishment, says Róisín Shortall
Fergus Finlay, an adviser to former Labour leader Dick Spring, said he was surprised at the ‘animosity’ to the idea of merging from the Social Democrats
Cathal Haughey’s second run for a council seat; the Irish man with a prominent view of Trump’s conviction; and Daithí Doolan’s spot-the-difference posters
Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall says ‘not a hope in hell’ of reform Bill being passed before general election
Recent polls are promising but the party has big decisions to make on three key questions
One in five smaller private homes closed in two-year period, as private equity funded hubs take larger chunk of market
Question arises as Labour leader Ivana Bacik says merger is ‘possible’
Róisín Shortall says opening of first elective hospital on existing hospital grounds will take at least 10 years
Tensions have bubbled up inside - and outside - Government and among senior civil servants in the fallout from a new budget that did not budget for massive health spending overruns
HSE chief said last week the health allocation was ‘not adequate for all current costs’
Budget allocation will have ‘catastrophic implications’ for patients and those who work on the front line of health service, says Sinn Féin
Stephen Donnelly denies that defeat of Opposition amendment will delay ban on sale of vapes to children
There was far less interest in the minutiae of Sinn Féin’s budget proposals from other parties, who may have had coalition in mind
The party also said it would spend an additional €1.1 billion on housing while it would take much of the surplus of corporation tax receipts to deal with energy costs and fund a ‘climate transformation’
Health committee also hears of plans to set up new medical school in capital operated by TU Dublin which is being looked at ‘very favourably’
Government to push ahead with new refugee accommodation centres in Santry, Clondalkin and Dún Laoghaire
Government to place people who have arrived into the country at an industrial premises, a former college and a converted office building
Ministers urged to compel release of reports setting out costs of company’s administration
Social Democrats TD Roisin Shortall was among the objectors to the development citing “poor tenure mix”
Incoming HSE chief Bernard Gloster emphasises ‘significant improvement’ in mortality rates from heart attacks, strokes and cancers
No information provided as to why the application has been withdrawn
New Social Democrats leader on how the 2018 abortion referendum was her introduction to political activism, and the electoral challenge posed by Sinn Féin
Inside Politics: Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall enjoy a rare privilege in politics – stepping down at a time of their choosing
New leader of the Social Democrats receives world-weary advice from Taoiseach on the burdens of leadership
Cairns will today attempt to reach out to disengaged voters, and will take her first Leaders’ Questions slot in the Dáil
Róisín Shortall cites grid capacity problems but developers have said they will not connect to grid until those issues are resolved
Prospective candidates Cian O’Callaghan and Jennifer Whitmore to support Cork TD
Drug talk and a pirate appearance soon overtaken by Soc Dems co-leaders’ exit announcement
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices