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Addictive online features should be disabled by default, report on use by children finds
Blanket social media ban for under-16s would ‘unlikely provide’ comprehensive solution to harms
Academic and lawyer Maeve O’Rourke to run for Seanad
Byelection will be decided solely by TDs and Senators, suggesting she will likely need support from Government parties
Patrick O’Donovan remains in intensive care after taking ill on Tuesday
Minister has previously spoken about his experience living with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with more than 10 years ago
With so much cash sloshing around, why is there a housing crisis?
Why is the HSE underfunded, and why aren’t there decent rail services between Dublin and Rosslare?
Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan taken ill at event in Limerick
Fine Gael TD earlier accused party colleagues of ‘ultimate betrayal’ for comments on his health
The blue-green smoothie ruling the country has no plan and even less passion
Civil War politics energised the Government parties. Now they’ve nothing left to do but pump out money
Bad news for Dublin’s coolest neighbourhoods – there’s a plan to bring them tourists
Plus: the magical disappearing youth culture card, church vs popular music, and An Post goes electric
The remaking of Jack Chambers
Not yet restored as a leadership contender perhaps, but the Minister for Public Expenditure’s stock is higher than it has been for a long time
Budget 2027: Does this giveaway budget have potential banana skins that might lie ahead for the Government?
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Tánaiste Simon Harris and wife Caoimhe welcome baby girl
Minister for Finance will take paternity leave after Friday’s duties, it is understood
Doing business with Olive: The sports star, the fitness guru and the minister
Kavanagh boasted of his connections with Tánaiste Simon Harris and proposed hosting a podcast with him
Budget builders: the money Ministers who are two sides of the same coin
As they finalise Budget 2027, young-career politicians Simon Harris and Jack Chambers are getting on better than some expected
Aughinish Alumina steps up lobbying as European Commission considers sanctions
Taoiseach, Cabinet Ministers and MEPs contacted by Russian-owned plant in Co Limerick
Small-scale childminders will be able to earn more tax-free under planned budget measure
€15,000 income threshold for Childcare Services Tax Relief set to be increased
Taoiseach tells Social Democrats reports of €7.50 pension increase ‘may not be true at all’
Cian O’Callaghan says reported €7.50 pension increase ‘doesn’t even keep pace with inflation’
Powersharing looks precarious as parade splits North
Inside Politics: Fuel protests on Ministers’ minds with budget nearing
What businesses would like to see in Budget 2027
Top 1000: Across all sectors of the economy, lowering the tax burden on work stands out as a key ask, as well relief on energy costs and supports for investment and entrepreneurship
Fuel protesters meet Simon Harris after buying table at Meath Fine Gael event
Tánaiste understood to have accepted document from the group saying he would consider it
Latest poll numbers show neither Government nor Opposition all that popular with electorate
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Simon Coveney: Former minister once lobbied by developer Johnny Ronan, now lobbies for him
Former tánaiste joined Ronan Group executives at meeting with Fine Gael leader Simon Harris last month about Bremore port project
Small minority prepared to consider new flag to make Irish unity acceptable to unionists
Irish Times/Ipsos B&A also asked about attitudes to immigration, with a small majority of voters seeing it, on balance, as a positive
Unrest, confusion and conflict in Coalition over sports capital grant announcement
TDs describe the issue as a ‘childish mess’ as row about timing continues
Financial deficit in health service could hit €1bn, Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears
Scrapping private practice in public hospitals to cost HSE €140m
The Irish Times view on the Ipsos B&A poll: a fragmenting political landscape
Six parties poll below 10 per cent, spanning the spectrum from the revolutionary socialist left to the socially conservative right
Poll reveals growing fragmentation of the Irish political landscape
Combined support for Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin declines 20 points over last four years, but no clear challenger emerging
Public disenchanted with the Government, but not entirely convinced by the alternatives
Cost of living is the clear issue for voters
‘All hell seems to have broken out’: FF and FG at loggerheads over sports grant announcement
Fine Gael TDs accused of jumping the gun on sports facilities fund
Harris points to jobs, housing supports after poll shows young people considering leaving
Tánaiste defends record while acknowledging ‘real challenges and pressures’
Anything less than €10 extra on the State pension means poverty for many
Pensioners are depending on an increase to afford food and heat
Not a fare exchange
Cllr John Kennedy’s letter on public transport fare increases shows Government is out of touch
Planning system shifts to ‘culture of facilitation rather than restriction’
John Cummins to tell Oireachtas housing committee that Government guidelines aim to enable rural homes
Labour and the Green Party should merge, says Irish MEP
Proposal by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin not discussed with party leader Ivana Bacik who has previously favoured union with Social Democrats
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