Marie O Halloran

Calm, reserved, hardworking, very thorough and “not a man to pick up a megaphone” to deal with a challenge is how a colleague describes newly elected (...)

Sinn Féin’s newest TD Cllr Mark Ward has twice followed in the footsteps of his party and Dublin Mid West constituency colleague Eoin Ó Broin. The No(...)

Sinn Féin upset pre-election predictions when Cllr Mark Ward topped the poll to win the Dublin Mid-West byelection with a margin of 525 votes ahead of(...)

There were heated exchanges in the Dáil when the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar accused Solidarity TD Mick Barry of being “ambiguous” about democracy. The ro(...)

Local authorities in Dublin and Waterford are facing “unsustainable” funding cuts of €18.4 million because of reduced transfers from the Government, t(...)

The report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists into the CervicalCheck screening service will not be published until all the women(...)

KBC Group chief executive Johan Thijs was forced on Friday evening to apologise for “insensitive” comments on the country’s tracker-mortgage scandal, (...)

Independent TD Noel Grealish has been accused of “disgraceful racism” after he questioned the source of some of the €10 billion in personal remittance(...)

The HSE is planning to provide additional home care packages, more transitional care beds and extra funding for the Fair Deal nursing home scheme in t(...)

The Department of Justice has declined to say if its plans to accommodate up to 130 asylum seekers in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim have been paused, as cla(...)