Taoiseach pledges to restore public confidence in gardaíKenny addresses GSOC controversy and economy in keynote speech at Fine Gael ard fheisSun Mar 02 2014 - 08:26
Kenny defends commitment to universal health insuranceHealthcare dominates Taoiseach’s address on the first night of the Fine Gael ardfheisSat Mar 01 2014 - 09:27
Shatter speech takes heat out of row - for nowMinister comes out fighting and defends himself against host of political accusationsThu Feb 27 2014 - 07:08
Party politics could prove a hindrance in determining what actually happenedGSOC fallout leads to game of political brinkmanshipTue Feb 25 2014 - 01:00
Point-scoring is obscuring the real issues in the Shatter rowOpinion: In the interests of the Garda itself some form of independent inquiry is now neededSun Feb 23 2014 - 00:01
Martin says murders were not investigated properlyFF leader calls for Minister for Justice to resign following ‘shocking revelations’Thu Feb 20 2014 - 08:32
Shatter sacks respected and experienced lawyer he appointedTaped conversation with whistleblower led to departureThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
St Vincent’s hospital still in breach of pay policyFour of five hospitals and health agencies threatened with cuts now in complianceWed Feb 19 2014 - 01:00
Garda authorities would be foolish to take high standing of force for grantedOpinion: Just when the controversy appeared to be dying down, the Minister raised the temperature againSun Feb 16 2014 - 00:01
Coalition backs GSOC and its chief on bugging inquiryGSOC commissioner says the watchdog ‘cannot definitively say we were bugged’Wed Feb 12 2014 - 06:34
Watchdog accused of implying Garda complicity in ‘bugging’Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan seeks answers over Garda Ombudsman statementTue Feb 11 2014 - 06:01
Bringing in outsiders to conduct bugging sweep points to disquieting level of distrustLevel of animosity between Garda and commission seems out of controlTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:01
Michael Noonan pledges to widen income tax bandsMinister will take workers out of higher tax bracket as soon as State can afford itSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:03
Who runs Ireland: introductionIreland’s politicians are public figures who are accountable to the electorate, but they’re not the only ones in controlSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Ex-IFA leader Bryan not to run for Fine Gael in the Euro electionsGovernment Chief Whip Paul Kehoe ‘strongly considering’ putting his name forwardSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Clear progress made on jobs but effort must be kept upOpinion: The question now is who will be the likely beneficiary of improvement in circumstancesSat Feb 08 2014 - 00:01
Manning calls for ‘real and sustainable’ reform of SeanadNUI chancellor urges Government to show commitment to the issueThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:07
Government urged to adopt 20-year rule for State papersNational Archives will need extra resources and staff if earlier release agreedWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
Quinn promises ‘fair outcome’ for school abuse victimsMinister for Education told there are 44 claims on hand following Louise O’Keeffe judgementTue Feb 04 2014 - 15:00
Gilmore pledges property tax cut as part of Labour’s local election manifestoCut of 15 per cent cut would apply in large urban areasMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
Gilmore says Labour will cut local property taxTánaiste promises 15 per cent cut in tax for voters in large urban areasSun Feb 02 2014 - 14:03
Kenny eerily emulates Ahern in undercutting his MinistersOpinion: There is now a worry that the Coalition could make decisions based on short-term political considerationsSun Feb 02 2014 - 00:01
Taoiseach backs Ballymurphy familiesCall for panel to inquire into 1971 Belfast killings of 11 peopleThu Jan 30 2014 - 22:28
Excluding North-South link from pylon review defendedEirGrid plan has already been examined by international experts, says Minister for EnergyWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
Quinn: Government needs time to absorb ‘significant implications’Amnesty hails ‘hugely important victory’ for human rights of all children in IrelandWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
Panel set up to examine controversial pylon issueRabbitte appoints group to explore feasability of putting electricity cables undergroundTue Jan 28 2014 - 21:40
Former journalist and politician Ted Nealon dies aged 84Tributes paid to the founder and editor of ‘Nealon’s Guide to the Dáil and Seanad’Tue Jan 28 2014 - 21:25
New political alliance faces challenge agreeing on policyElectoral reform, abortion, entrepreneurship and influence of the EU among topics raised at inaugural meetingMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Others have taken a hit, now inflated salaries in voluntary sector must goOpinion: Though they get little credit for it, serving politicians have taken substantial salary cutsSat Jan 25 2014 - 00:01
New scheme to protect deposits of tenantsCabinet also approves enhanced provisions against anti-social behaviourWed Jan 22 2014 - 01:02
Long-awaited banking inquiry to get under wayAnnouncement about nature and scope of committee to be made within two weeksTue Jan 21 2014 - 21:29
History lessons must not become a thing of the pastMaterial from military archives shows the importance of understanding our pastSat Jan 18 2014 - 00:01
Archives will shed more light on intimidation and murder of Protestants by elements of the IRAConfidential memo from then-director of intelligence Col Michael Joe Costello in September 1925 touches on the issueFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Value of maximum pension was significantTop pension of £350 a year was payable to those of senior rank who served from 1916 to 1923Fri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Oldest participant in Easter Rising was aged 63 while the youngest was just 12Fri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
Rebel wounded during Rising was denied a pension because she was a womanMargaret Skinnider led five men in Easter 1916 but was repeatedly refused a pension as the term ‘soldier’ was said to apply to men onlyFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:00
New archive tells stories of ordinary volunteers in Easter RisingMilitary Service Pensions Collection published onlineThu Jan 16 2014 - 17:43
Commission says no basis for inquiry into complaints about ShatterWallace and Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan had complained about penalty point commentsThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Report to Cabinet urges easier repossessions for banksExpert group recommends system be made more efficientWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
To succeed, the Reform Alliance will have to do more than court media attentionOpinion: Circumstances may not prove sufficiently favourable for the new group to match the political breakthrough made by the PDsSat Jan 11 2014 - 00:01
Records of 49,000 Irish WWI dead in new digital archiveProject developed by Google and DFA is important for remembering soldiers - GilmoreFri Jan 10 2014 - 14:47
Dublin to be key battleground in European electionsAnalysis: Candidates begin to emerge ahead of selection conventionsThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
Outgoing IFA leader expected to run for Fine Gael in European electionsHanafin rules out running for FF in DublinWed Jan 08 2014 - 01:00
Local elections will test party support and may indicate shape of next governmentOpinion: Shift towards reflecting urban population growth could benefit Sinn FéinSun Jan 05 2014 - 00:01
Positive exchequer returns give scope for tax cutsDepartment of Finance exceeds deficit target for third successive yearSat Jan 04 2014 - 01:00
Eerie echoes of current crisis in 1983 budget filesA ballooning deficit and a crushing debt burden put fragile coalition to the testSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
Bailout myth is a cocktail of half-truths and downright evasionsOpinion: Wide acceptance of an unreliable narrative about what happened means we may never get to grips with the actual factsSat Dec 28 2013 - 00:01
Alan Dukes objected to ‘impertinence’ of questions about his 1983 holiday plansFinance minister suggested: ‘ask the media gurus where they are going’Fri Dec 27 2013 - 01:00
Prison population in 1983 was a third of today’sState’s jails held 1,350 inmates 30 years ago, compared with more than 4,000 in autumn 2013Fri Dec 27 2013 - 01:00
