Leo Varadkar

‘We have to know what we’ll be signing up to before we can sign up to anything,’ Taoiseach says at Moldova summit

Barrister Marie O’Shea says recommendations for change are not the ‘start of a creep’ towards more progressive regime

Michael Healy-Rae casts a ‘boo-bonic’ plague on the Coalition

Taoiseach tells Dáil housing prices in Dublin had been failing for ‘several months’ and had peaked

With a father from Goa and a mother from Dublin, I was colonised and Catholic on both sides

Leo Varadkar should stop ‘posturing’ after doubling down on budget demands in Irish Times interview, says Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen

Bertie Ahern and Michael McDowell remember how they had to ‘endure Jamie Oliver’s squid in ink for lunch’ in Downing Street during Belfast Agreement negotiations

Putting more money in voters’ pockets is one of the reasons for Fine Gael being in government, Taoiseach tells The Irish Times

Dunja Mijatović says situation ‘may contribute to a nascent anti-refugee sentiment’

Senior Fianna Fáil ministers are diplomatic but the party’s backbenchers are openly angry and detect Varadkar’s hand in the populist policy gambit

Any Other Business: Quangos make a comeback, Max Schrems renews hostilities with data regulators and horse racing seeks subsidies

EU Nature Restoration Law aims to tackle large losses in biodiversity over past half century

As McGrath considers how to spend surpluses, time pressure mounts on politicians to have their voices heard

Smart Money: Indexing for inflation and preparing ground ahead of a General Election means €1,000 tax package figure per middle income earner might not be too far fetched

Taoiseach says State will offer job search and training support to impacted workers ‘if they need it’

Party meeting sees Fine Gael members turn on Fianna Fáil partners who ‘crashed the economy’

Varadkar pledges inflation-proofing tax measure as FG TDs call for tax reliefs of €1,000 for middle-income earners

Several sites under consideration for berthing ‘floatels’ in Dublin and Cork

Proposed EU Nature Restoration Law would see 50 per cent of land previously drained for agriculture rewetted by 2030

Cork East deputy becomes fifth senior Fine Gael TD to announce departure in recent months

Refugee accommodation statements expected to dominate afternoon in Oireachtas

Garden of Remembrance will see both sides gather to remember the dead of the war

Varadkar says he discussed matter with Sunak last week in Iceland and leaders will meet again next week at Chișinău summit

Exact amount has not been decided but there will ‘certainly’ be a rise, Leo Varadkar tells Dáil

Legal case follows previous action filed against Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over alleged defamation

At least 941 men were convicted until legislation repealed the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993

Officers rarely intervene to remove or arrest far-right protesters. Does this help or hinder troublemakers?

The family of the teenager in Navan suggested he may have been targeted because of who he is. It is not unreasonable to conclude those shocked eyeballs are a motivating factor too, though

True impact of migration accommodation issues is it will fuel feelings, where they exist, that Government is remote, indifferent and arbitrary

A small rural community has become the scene of the latest protest over the Government’s attempts to find accommodation for refugees in the migrant housing crisis

Pressure is coming on the Government to start spending the projected €65 billion budget surplus

Ministers and Garda Commissioner agree that finding accommodation an ‘absolute priority’ while Government asks Clare residents to drop barricade at asylum seeker site

Government to push ahead with new refugee accommodation centres in Santry, Clondalkin and Dún Laoghaire

FG leader says it is party’s ambition to seek fourth term in Government

Government will also continue to host people seeking international protection in Co Clare despite ‘unacceptable’ protests at Magowna House

The boy was hospitalised after the assault which left him with concussion, broken teeth and a shoe print on his forehead

Leo Varadkar met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during fourth Council of Europe summit in Iceland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has joined more than 40 leaders at the fourth Council of Europe meeting in Iceland

Leo Varadkar addressed the immigration crisis as he arrived in Reykjavik for the fourth summit of the Council of Europe since its creation in 1949

Nearly one in three Garda recruits not taking up their places at Garda College despite being successful in recruitment process