Dáil Éireann

Inside Politics: Political importance of issue waxes and wanes, but recent protests have reignited simmering tensions

Honest to God, but Sinn Féin is looking more and more like a party of Government as the year goes on

Inside Politics: Government scrambles to shelter more than 500 asylum seekers without accommodation

Covid lockdowns made many TDs reassess their life priorities and were, for the first time in their children’s lives, not away from home continuously

Split in Cabinet among Ministers around some of the recommendations made by Marie O’Shea in her review of the State’s abortion law

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett says family were ‘cruelly and ruthlessly evicted by force’ from rented south Dublin home

Inside Politics: The cat’s well and truly out of the bag and it would not be unreasonable for Government to provide a full explanation

Submissions by political parties to Electoral Commission show marked differences over how many seats Dáil should have

Miriam Lord: Ivana Bacik namedrops union leader Mick Lynch but forgets Varadkar’s day at the coronation

Despite windfall tax receipts, it seems PRSI increases will still be necessary to meet the increased costs of going grey in years ahead

Inside Politics: Fáilte Ireland understood to have drawn up options for Covid-type supports for affected businesses

Tánaiste defends arrangements with British air force to protect Irish airspace

British ambassador among guests at Classiebawn Castle to mark links with Mullaghmore

Web Summit founder shares submission online which he says he filed to clerk of the Dáil, claiming Micheál Martin breached Dáil standing orders

The Cork musician was spurred on by his own experience with pending eviction

Micheál Martin defends Government’s records accusing SF of putting forward ‘knee jerk’ mortgage interest relief proposal

Former US president receives warm welcome at his hotel in Co Clare but the streets aren’t exactly teeming with supporters

Taoiseach’s remarks about 2014 water charges protest ‘scandalous’, says People Before Profit TD

Web Summit chief executive says his reputation has been ‘adversely affected’ by Micheál Martin’s remarks

Opposition TDs Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett critical of State broadcaster’s plan to air four-hour ceremony

Murphy calls for answers from Collins after ‘unsatisfactory statement’ last week during sharp Dáil exchanges

Inside Politics: Government and Opposition now running out of patience with response from energy sector

Members of the public take opportunity to propose new limits in submissions to the Electoral Commission

Miriam Lord’s Week: How nice it has been to hear about some warm-hearted relationships - and an end to the ‘shocking rows’ between Fine Gael politicians in Kilkenny

Martin accuses website The Ditch of distortion and creating a toxic atmosphere online

Minister of State says that in hindsight it would have been better if he had not participated in a local area committee meeting

The compelling action came when the Tánaiste got stuck into The Ditch

Advocates say surrogates should be able to get money for maternity clothes, medication, dietary expenses and loss of earnings during pregnancy

Minister of State for Skills and Further Education was defending role in wife’s purchase of property from Limerick County Council in 2008

Micheál Martin claims news site is not an ‘independent media platform at all’ and questions who is funding it

Leaders' Questions gets under way in the Dáil but House awaits statement from Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins

Application backlogs cleared while turnaround times at target level, Micheál Martin tells Dáil

Some 100 Irish citizens are still believed to be in the country, where situation is ‘very volatile and dangerous’

Green Party leader tells our podcast of critical staff shortages in public sector while Niall Collins is due to address Dáil

Statements on the anniversary of the Belfast Agreement give a much-needed truce to the daily Dáil set-piece between Mary Lou and Leo

Patricia Ryan told Dáil a 999 call was made but difficulties experienced by dispatchers to obtain local assistance ‘very concerning’

In Leader’s Questions, Sinn Féin says more evidence emerges every day of consequences of housing emergency while Taoiseach defends Government record

Sale of land to Niall Collins' wife by Limerick County Council has been seized upon by the Opposition

Opposition TDs say they will not tolerate another statement in the tumbleweed hours

Labour leader calls for independent investigation led by a senior counsel or retired judge