Catherine Murphy

The State has spent almost €1.2 billion on the housing assistance payment (Hap) and homelessness services since 2018, according to the latest availabl(...)

Social Democrats leaders Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall have expressed concerns about spending commitments in the framework document issued by T(...)

The Department of Justice last month transferred 70 asylum seekers across the country despite a recent confirmed case of Covid-19 at the Dublin hotel (...)

The Social Democrats have written to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin asking them to provide costings for their new coalit(...)

Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West Éamon Ó Cuív has said there is serious disquiet in the party about entering into a four to five year government arrange(...)

The warmth and colour evident as new TDs arrived in Leinster House with their families for the first day of the 33rd Dáil gave way to vitriol and bitt(...)

Outside Leinster House it was like the prelude to a boyband concert. A high-spirited crowd, dressed to the nines and giddy with excitement, held homem(...)

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphyis considering standing for the post of Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil as party sources said they are unlikely(...)

“It’s official – there is no turning back now,” said Claire Kerrane, Sinn Féin’s newly elected TD for Roscommon-Galway, after she signed the roll(...)

It takes a while to turn a ship of state around. The new TDs are arriving and the former deputies are moving out. It’s a slow process – most of them (...)