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Former Fianna Fáil deputy leader Éamon Ó Cuív: opposed the deal with Fine Gael and the Green Party and said it should talk to Sinn Féin about a coalition. Photograph: Eric Luke
Éamon Ó Cuív calls for Micheál Martin to be replaced as Fianna Fáil leader

Fianna Fáil TD Éamon Ó Cuív has called for Micheál Martin to be replaced as leader and is seeking a “new direction” for the party. Mr Ó Cuív, a grand(...)

The two major parties spent €31,506 and €31,160 respectively on political advertisements on Facebook. File photograph: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Election 2020: Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael spend most on Facebook advertising

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are by far the largest spenders on online political advertising in the past week, followed by the Labour Party, Sinn Féin, a(...)

Independent councillor Mannix Flynn suggested a motion had been introduced to facilitate the ‘commercial friends’ of some councillors but he later withdrew the comment. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Councillors vote to limit number of Dublin hotels because of ‘erosion of cultural life and space’

Dublin city councillors have voted to limit the number of hotels being built in the city to halt the “increasing erosion of cultural life and space”, (...)

Presidential election: Gallagher told not to send letters to Áras

President Michael D Higgins’s campaign has asked opponent Seán Gallagher not to send letters regarding the election to Áras an Uachtaráin, “for obviou(...)

Nicky Kehoe speaking to the media outside the Four Courts after he was awarded damages following a High Court action. Photograph: Collins Courts
Hearing next months on cost of Kehoe defamation case

A hearing over liability for legal costs in the defamation case brought against RTE by Sinn Féin political manager Nicky Kehoe will take place next mo(...)

Minister of State John Halligan said religious orders found guilty of criminal neglect should have their assets seized. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
‘Death rates in mother and baby homes similar to concentration camps’

Independent Alliance minister John Halligan has compared child mortality rates in mother and baby homes to Nazi concentration camps. The Waterford TD(...)

‘The Dáil has approved a Fianna Fáil Bill that will allow the Central Bank to cap mortgage rates.’ Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Cliff Taylor: Do we want bankers running our banks, or politicians?

During the financial crisis, the State had to step in to rescue the banking system. The plan afterwards was to gradually withdraw and let the banks re(...)

The figures supplied to Dublin City Council show burglaries investigated by gardaí in Pearse Street, the State’s busiest Garda station, and Donnybrook in Dublin 4, increased by 30 per cent from the first quarter of 2014 to the same period in 2015.
Garda figures show crime increase in southeast Dublin

Burglaries, assaults, public order offences and bicycle thefts have increased significantly in the southeast of Dublin city over the last year, accord(...)