Parties dissent from housing committee’s report scrutinising draft laws reforming rental sector

Predicted expansion in demand ‘largely attributed to growth in data centre loads’, notes commission’s analysis

Minister for Justice will amend legislation to exonerate people convicted before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1993

EU leaders preparing diplomatic blitz in Davos to lobby US president to retract Greenland and tariff threats

Bloc’s leaders prepare diplomatic blitz to lobby Donald Trump to row back on Greenland, tariff threats

Required majority of national governments appear not to favour unleashing the trade ‘bazooka’ – yet

Mari Hurley took up the role in August 2024 after a controversy over payments at the broadcaster

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty claims Ministers ‘holding out’ and that behaviour is ‘absolutely unacceptable’

Capacity of Castlebaggot substation ‘completely consumed’ by local data centres

Justice Minister says new legislation aims to strike a balance between the rights of asylum applicants and the wellbeing of the State

John Lahart rues failure to make case for trade deal before Government voted against it

The number of unsuccessful asylum seekers who left Ireland was up 89% last year

Independents and farming lobby resist backing the trade agreement, which is expected to pass

Barry Andrews said pharmaceuticals, tech and chemicals sectors stood to benefit from deal, as France announces decision to vote against

Michael Healy-Rae’s intervention dashed any chance of voting for trade deal between the EU and South American bloc