Jackie Cahill

Tipperary North constituency profile: Michael Lowry will probably top the poll for the seventh election in a row

Election 2024: Local elections results suggest Labour is in reasonably good health here and Alan Kelly is a big beast

Mon Nov 18 2024 - 20:55

Donnelly denies Government ‘caving to protesters’ opposing asylum seeker accommodation

Minister says communities such as Roscrea have taken many new arrivals and there should be some dividend

Wed Jan 17 2024 - 10:23

Special package for 10 areas with highest number of refugees and asylum seekers

Government says ‘scoping work’ under way to determine the size of the package that will be offered

Wed Jan 17 2024 - 06:00

Roscrea standoff: Government agrees ‘in principle’ to purchase disused hotel in town as ‘community hotel’

Purchase part of attempts to defuse tensions over accommodating asylum seekers in local hotel

Tue Jan 16 2024 - 19:50

How John Magnier’s Coolmore bloodstock operation is buying up Co Tipperary

The highly profitable horsebreeding operation is estimated to have bought 170 farms in the county, the equivalent of more than five times the size of the Phoenix Park

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 11:56

Controversial forestry deal with investor funds unlikely to be repeated, says Minister

Deal between Coillte and Gresham House is binding and cannot be reversed, Charlie McConalogue says

Thu Jan 26 2023 - 10:24

Joe Canning: I loved having a chip on the shoulder, I wanted it

Writing off Limerick after the league campaign will have motivated them even more

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 06:00

State should fund emission reducing technology to reduce methane, committee told

Range of options on reducing agriculture emissions to be brought to Cabinet

Thu Mar 24 2022 - 16:37

Coalition gears up for next election after unprecedented challenges

Government parties remain broadly united despite a relentlessly bleak environment

Sat Mar 19 2022 - 05:00

Scrapping fishing boats will ‘destroy industry and communities’

Representative bodies oppose Government plan for decommissioning of 60 trawlers

Thu Dec 09 2021 - 01:00

Miriam Lord’s Week: Rented plastic Christmas trees sum up Leinster House festive cheer

Former minister Finian McGrath joins team Shelbourne FC as public affairs officer

Sat Nov 27 2021 - 02:24

Political support for climate measures linked to scale of public investment

Government backbenchers express backing but want ‘carrot’ deployed ahead of ‘stick’

Wed Oct 27 2021 - 00:30

Revised €165bn national infrastructure plan to include funding for extra roads

National Development Plan, to be published on Monday, will include more than 50 projects with a price tag of more than €100m

Sat Oct 02 2021 - 00:00

Minister denies crisis in peat harvesting sector is product of ‘green agenda’

Malcolm Noonan insists Government is bound by planning laws on large-scale extraction

Tue Sept 21 2021 - 18:36

Fianna Fáil ‘rebel’ TDs to vote with Government in vote of confidence in Coveney

Those in favour of new FF leader likely to back Coveney as losing whip would place them outside parliamentary party for six months

Mon Sept 13 2021 - 01:03

Fianna Fáil’s 2020 election postmortem still not delivered

Party TDs express disappointment at slowness of report and poor byelection showing

Sun Jul 11 2021 - 20:56

Racing authorities in Ireland and Britain dismiss doping claims

IHRB and BHA say samples carried out did not support allegations of steroid use

Mon Jul 05 2021 - 18:24

Horseracing regulatory body insists it acts on all doping claims

Under-fire IHRB to appear before Oireachtas agriculture committee this week

Mon Jul 05 2021 - 01:00

Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin condemned to linguistic knots over Jerry McCabe

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald and TD Martin Browne were singing different songs

Sat Jul 03 2021 - 03:00

Oireachtas Committee looking into doping claims in racing set to be virtual event

Leading Irish trainer Jim Bolger has been invited by Committee to July 8th hearing

Fri Jun 25 2021 - 16:42

Forestry licence delays driving contractors out of business, committee told

Officials pledge to issue 4,500 permits this year as crisis described as ‘absolute disaster’

Thu May 27 2021 - 16:22

Mounting concern at impact of UK-Australia deal on Irish beef exports

Irish Government source says matter closely monitored but UK is free to pursue trade deals post-Brexit

Fri May 21 2021 - 17:25

TDs asked ‘do we want to be on right side of history?’

Government backbenchers call for recognition of Palestinian state

Thu May 20 2021 - 20:03

Review of funds given to An Taisce demanded at Fianna Fáil party meeting

Planned appeal over €140 million cheese plant labelled ‘treasonous’ by one TD

Wed May 12 2021 - 20:52

Investment in €140 million cheese plant stalled in planning row, Dáil told

Use of judicial review to ‘frustrate and delay’ projects a cause of concern – Taoiseach

Thu Apr 01 2021 - 13:53

Progress against Covid-19 is ‘fragile’, Taoiseach tells FF party meeting

Micheál Martin says Ireland will be in a ‘different position’ in April due to vaccination

Wed Mar 24 2021 - 22:42

Cahill questions ‘logic’ of quizzing Minister over horse racing controversies

Agriculture committee chair says McConalogue could be invited for broad discussion

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 08:20

Michael Healy-Rae is Dáil’s biggest landlord and declares NYT shares

One-quarter of TDs are property investors or landowners

Sat Feb 27 2021 - 10:01

School reopening: Infant and Leaving Cert classes may return on March 1st, says Taoiseach

Lifting of restrictions complicated by UK variant now accounting for 90 per cent of Covid-19 cases

Thu Feb 18 2021 - 06:06

Forestry industry future threatened by delays in planting licences

Leading figures in the business claim there is a two-year delay in getting planting permits due to backlog in felling licences

Mon Feb 15 2021 - 07:26

Taoiseach faces calls for Level 2 ‘with tweaks’ after lockdown ends

Families need clarity on Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Chrismas, party meetings told

Thu Nov 12 2020 - 11:07

Minister warns Eir it will have to address ‘shocking poor’ customer service

In an unusual intervention in Dáil, the Ceann Comhairle asks of the regulator is ‘doing its job’

Wed Nov 11 2020 - 07:54

Eighteen TDs nominated to chair Oireachtas committees

James Lawless, Fergus O’Dowd, Kathleen Funchion and Neasa Hourigan among appointees

Fri Sept 04 2020 - 16:04

Taoiseach urged to relax rules on ‘ridiculous’ 200 spectator limit at sports venues

Limit the same for all venues, Micheál Martin pledges to respond ‘in a positive but safe way’

Tue Jul 28 2020 - 21:54