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Opposition has objected to inclusion of controversial new speaking time slots for coalition-supporting Independents and Government backbenchers on Dáil schedule

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy to face no-confidence vote next week as she denies Opposition claims

Bitter row over speaking rights dominated Dáil for second day as three opposition leaders called for Ms Murphy’s resignation

Michael Lowry gives masterclass in smug ingratitude amid Dáil chaos over speaking time

Two-digit TD for Tipperary gloated dismissively as Opposition raged over Ceann Comhairle’s decision to bring Dáil confrontation over speaking rights to abrupt end

Opposition leaders stop short of no confidence motion in Verona Murphy

Opposition stops short of tabling motion of no confidence in Ceann Comhairle following her decision to push through vote on controversial changes

Presidential election starting to look like a lose-lose bet for Sinn Féin

Mary Lou McDonald knows she can’t afford to oversee yet another poor performance - but can the party credibly sit this one out?

Conor McGregor visits the White House as McDonald and Martin brawl in the Dáil

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Government plan to push through changes to Dáil speaking rights criticised as ‘brazen’ and ‘outrageous’

Long-running dispute centres on efforts to carve out speaking time for a small group of Independents involved in Government-formation talks

EU leaders to discuss biggest programme of rearmament since 1930s

Dáil rows revolve around housing while speaking rights dispute rumbles on

Taoiseach rejects claim of stalling over Oireachtas committees to protect Michael Lowry group

Sinn Féin leader says Dáil in ‘cold storage’ and that Government’s priority is ‘money for junior Ministers’

Taoiseach’s ‘sniggering’ in Oval Office was action of ‘obsequious coward’, claims Sinn Féin leader

Martin says McDonald's 'feigned outrage' ignores his comments about housing being Ireland’s number-one issue

Taoiseach: O’Neill’s absence from St Patrick’s Day events in Washington ‘a big mistake’

Micheál Martin says Sinn Féin’s boycott was ‘opportunistic’

Growing numbers of unionists open to conversation on united Ireland, McDonald says

Sinn Féin leader tells Dublin event there has been ‘revolution in terms of how people self-define’

Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould seeks chance to address Dáil over arrest

The politician ‘emphatically’ rejects accusations of an alleged €150,000 fraud at a former employer

Thomas Gould: former logistics manager and defender of IRA

Gould is Sinn Féin spokesman on addiction and recovery

Thomas Gould arrest: Mary Lou McDonald to address issue before Dáil

Sinn Féin TD denies wrongdoing over alleged €150,000 fraud and will remain as party’s junior spokesperson on housing

McDonald should tell Dáil what she knows about Sinn Féin TD’s arrest, says Michael Healy-Rae

Solicitor acting on behalf of Cllr Kenneth Collins says his client denies wrongdoing

Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’

In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean

Sinn Féin’s Thomas Gould confirms he is TD at centre of fraud investigation

Cork North Central TD (56) was arrested and questioned by gardaí yesterday

Miriam Lord: Maga senator Sharon Keogan would only love to take Taoiseach’s place at shamrock jamboree

Independent senator wrote to the White House seeking a St Patrick’s Day invite

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