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Covid-19: Mandatory quarantine for passengers is not workable, Tánaiste says
- Politics
- January 21, 2021, 15:42
Mandatory quarantining of incoming travellers is not workable in the State because of the open Border with the North and because it would be dispropor(...)

Prisons source older game consoles to prevent inmates using internet
- Crime & Law
- December 10, 2020, 17:27
Prison authorities are sourcing older, second-hand models of games consoles to prevent inmates using internet enabled versions to communicate with peo(...)

Brexit talks continue but at this stage prayers may be more useful
- Politics
- December 10, 2020
Deal or No-Deal The way things are going in Brexit negotiations it would be no great surprise to see Noel Edmonds rock up to 10 Downing Street on Sun(...)

Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley asks to make statement to Dáil over tweets
- Irish News
- December 4, 2020, 09:27
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has asked the party’s Laois-Offaly TD Brian Stanley to take a week off after following a political controversy over(...)

Nama’s ‘Project Nantes’ deal cost taxpayers €29m, Dáil Committee finds
- Commercial Property
- December 3, 2020, 15:41
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) faces further grilling on a deal that TDs believe potentially cost taxpayers up to €29 million. Nama’s s(...)

Brian Stanley apologises for controversial tweet at Public Accounts Committee
- Politics
- December 2, 2020, 11:25
Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has apologised for a controversial tweet in which he referenced incidents from the War of Independence and the Troubles. (...)

Miriam Lord: Chastened celebs mortified in Montrose
- Politics
- November 21, 2020
Scarleh for everyone in RTÉ. Thoughts and prayers and all that. But the photographs of a number of the national station’s leading news broadcasters (...)

Varadkar ‘did not know’ names of three judges interested in Supreme Court job
- Politics
- November 19, 2020, 14:13
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil he did not know the name of the three sitting judges who expressed an interest in the Supreme Court vacancy th(...)

Taoiseach defends nomination of former Fianna Fáil senator to ethics watchdog
- Politics
- November 17, 2020, 17:34
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended the appointment of a former Fianna Fáil senator, who lobbied for the National Association of General Practitione(...)

Oireachtas role in Séamus Woulfe debacle ‘very open question’, says TD
- Politics
- November 15, 2020, 15:26
Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy has said it is a “very open question” whether the Oireachtas should deal with the crisis surrounding Supre(...)