Your essential end-of-week politics catch-up as rolling controversies at RTÉ look set for a return to centre stage
Dáil Éireann
Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall says ‘not a hope in hell’ of reform Bill being passed before general election
Tánaiste says he is ‘mystified’ at recruitment embargo as 28,000 people have been brought in to health service since 2020
Bríd Smyth asks Martin ‘what exactly is it that you want to do that you can’t already do with our Defence Forces inside the triple lock?’
Discussions at Government level about further reducing the supports to newly arrived Ukrainian refugees
TD Verona Murphy was scandalised by the allocation of school buses in Kilkenny, but her fellow Senators and TDs were in a more celebratory mood with May Day, Mary-Lou’s birthday and Lyric FM all on the list
Aontú's Peadar Tóibín tells Dáil ‘the Minister for Justice does not know what’s happening in the Department’ in light of immigration crisis
Rural Independents say Ireland now effectively a ‘colonial outpost of an EU regulatory empire’ as Minister stands over 80% border crossing figure
Another day in which the controversy over asylum seekers coming here from the UK dominated domestic politics
Minister for Justice has not had the best seven days of her career, but there’s better news for Ossian Smyth
After peaking at 24% in January, mentions of immigration have declined month-on-month, falling to 12% in the latest poll
Too many on the left are content to whine from the sidelines, wary of the responsibility of power and unwilling to make the compromises that forming a Government require
Former US house speaker is on a visit to the ould sod - yes, she can claim to be Irish, thanks to the ‘grandchildren’ rule
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