Patrick O Donovan

The government should consider increasing housing supports if it cuts enhanced pandemic welfare payments, an economist with the Economic and Social Re(...)

Changes to the State’s enhanced pandemic social welfare payments are to be considered this week, Minister of State Patrick O’Donovan has said. Speaki(...)

The potential cost of the promises made by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in their coalition framework document has caused concern in both of their parliam(...)

Patrick O’Donovan (43), from Newcastle West, is a qualified industrial chemist and first entered the local political scene with Fine Gael when he was (...)

Fianna Fáil is backing the M20 motorway link-up between Cork and Limerick, but is it working on even closer ties between the two cities? Leaflets ask(...)

Limerick County (three seats) Current: 2 FG, 1 FF If there is to be an upset in Limerick County, it will likely come from an Independent taking one (...)

There is “no hope at all” for RTÉ if Government plans to save it include the broadcasting of death notices, the Dáil has been told. Fianna Fáil TD Ja(...)

In 2018, RTÉ broadcast Taken Down, a crime drama with sharp things to say about the direct provision system for asylum seekers that this Government ch(...)

Good morning. Days after the death of Gay Byrne, the dominant and outstanding figure in its history, RTÉ outlined overnight the measures it will have(...)

The State is to change how it buys goods and services in a bid to drive more environmentally-friendly practices. All government contracts will soon ha(...)