Micheál Martin

FF leader says Coalition parties have made it ‘very clear’ that they favour reducing tax burden on workers

Fianna Fáil sources sceptical of claims over how many people would benefit from the plan

Invasion of Ukraine brought an end to any indulgence by our European allies and highlights ridiculousness of giving China and Russia a veto over Irish actions

Immediate priority must be to expand availability of termination in hospitals and tackling ‘uneven geographic spread’ of GPs providing services, Tánaiste says

Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore ‘really perplexed’ to see reports gardaí being sent to theme park ‘to police these tourist hotspots’

Budget negotiations are best done behind closed doors and by not promising everybody everything, says Green Party leader

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

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

Refugee accommodation statements expected to dominate afternoon in Oireachtas

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

Micheál Martin said current rule gives Russia an effective veto over Irish peacekeeping efforts

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

Politicians prevail despite sustained and mystifying onslaught of corporate gobbledegook at the Public Accounts Committee

Changing your mind

Men with wallets as big as their egos have always sought news organs as conduits for their world view

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

Currently, any major foreign deployment for peacekeeping requires approval of Government, Dáil and backing of a UN resolution

Former chief constable Jon Boutcher is investigating atrocities carried out by the loyalist Glennane Gang

Coalition to seek a timed amendment to the Bill amid concerns that its progression could leave the State open to legal action

Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has said the situation the State was facing was ‘unprecedented’, with over 100,000 people having arrived from Ukraine and elsewhere over the last year

Plans follow 2022 report that found Defence Forces not equipped to perform their role

Northern secretary who declared Britain had no ‘strategic or economic interest’ in NI was forced to resign after ‘Late Late Show’ song

Ireland has little if any means of protecting undersea cables which carry internet traffic between US and Europe and pass through Irish waters off south and west coasts

Irish stance increasingly looks like freeloading in Brussels as EU becomes more preoccupied with defence

Defence Forces representatives have criticised the ‘managed decline’ of military accommodation

Former Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed from Cork says political debate became more aggressive over his 30 years in Dáil Éireann

It requires semantic somersaults to claim that the British air defence deal can’t be discussed as a “matter of national security”

EirGrid’s Shaping Our Offshore Energy Future programme will mark the first step in the development

Presumption of innocence applies to complaints made to gardaí, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin

Tánaiste said he was personally opposed to the current GAAGO streaming arrangement for many championship games

Taoiseach refuses Dáil debate on revelations

Independent council raised issues in a letter to Coalition leaders and Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, on Tuesday

Plans to draw up national offshore wind strategy also on agenda

Martin says his speech to the Royal Irish Academy regarding Irish- Chinese relations was "very measured and balanced"

Tánaiste defends arrangements with British air force to protect Irish airspace

Micheál Martin accused of ‘interfering in China’s internal affairs’ because of his comments on Taiwan, Xinjiang and Hong Kong

Flynn, a member of Travelling community, says she still experiences ‘discrimination’ and ‘racism’ despite being a public representative

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

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