Malcolm Noonan insists Government is bound by planning laws on large-scale extraction

Those in favour of new FF leader likely to back Coveney as losing whip would place them outside parliamentary party for six months

Party TDs express disappointment at slowness of report and poor byelection showing

IHRB and BHA say samples carried out did not support allegations of steroid use

Under-fire IHRB to appear before Oireachtas agriculture committee this week

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald and TD Martin Browne were singing different songs

Leading Irish trainer Jim Bolger has been invited by Committee to July 8th hearing

Officials pledge to issue 4,500 permits this year as crisis described as ‘absolute disaster’

Irish Government source says matter closely monitored but UK is free to pursue trade deals post-Brexit

Government backbenchers call for recognition of Palestinian state

Planned appeal over €140 million cheese plant labelled ‘treasonous’ by one TD

Use of judicial review to ‘frustrate and delay’ projects a cause of concern – Taoiseach

Micheál Martin says Ireland will be in a ‘different position’ in April due to vaccination

Agriculture committee chair says McConalogue could be invited for broad discussion

One-quarter of TDs are property investors or landowners

Lifting of restrictions complicated by UK variant now accounting for 90 per cent of Covid-19 cases

Leading figures in the business claim there is a two-year delay in getting planting permits due to backlog in felling licences

Families need clarity on Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Chrismas, party meetings told

In an unusual intervention in Dáil, the Ceann Comhairle asks of the regulator is ‘doing its job’

James Lawless, Fergus O’Dowd, Kathleen Funchion and Neasa Hourigan among appointees