Temperatures plummet on election campaign trail amid blizzard of political promises
While plans differ between some parties on housing, the cost of living and taxes, all of them agree on a few basic tenets around housing
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Rose of Tralee festival beset by financial problems and legal actions
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Number of complaints against taxi drivers reaches record levels
In 2O23 some 1,782 complaints regarding small public service vehicle drivers were recorded, with nearly half connected to a taxi driver’s failure to provide cashless payment
Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shameful
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
Cab seizes more than €116m in assets over 12 years, with €64.4m transferred to exchequer
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín raises concern over ‘time lag’ between seizure and arrival in State coffers
Micheál Martin says he was never briefed about alleged Russian spy in the Oireachtas
Peadar Tóibín says Senators ‘sniggered like giddy children’ as they denied being reported infiltrator during Seanad sitting
Overseas intelligence agencies’ following well worn playbook for recruiting in Ireland
‘Influence operations’ by Russia and China are not uncommon as reports allege an Oireachtas member is working as an asset for Russian security services
Gardaí have compiled list of Oireachtas members and other people they believe have been targeted by Russians
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín calls on Irish political parties to audit members to see if anyone has received potential contact from Russian intelligence
Peadar Tóibín was approached to meet Putin in 2017 but ‘wasn’t interested’
Aontú leader calls on political parties to audit members for potential contact from Russian intelligence
National children’s hospital ‘car crash’ set to be repeated with maternity hospital, Dáil told
Aontú leader claims building, fit-out tender as ‘half-baked’ as contract for children’s hospital and that Government is ‘incinerating taxpayers’ money’
Haven’t we already tried restricting access to contraception to stop people having sex?
Aontú is concerned the proposed extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds amounts to a State-sponsored behavioural nudge: where their parents got SSIAs or Eircom shares, today’s young women would get Mirena coils
Free contraception for 16-year-olds amounts to State giving licence for underage sex, says Aontú's Tóibín
Stephen Donnelly is seeking an expansion to the scheme providing free contraception to women – including possibly to 16-year-olds
Officials concerned about adult asylum seekers claiming to be minors
Internal briefing warns of ‘severe demands’ put on Tusla service for child asylum seekers
Another crime added to long list by GAAGo
Simon Harris leaps to defence of Helen McEntee after Peader Tóibín decries ‘cynical nonsense’
Dublin city centre ‘scourged with anti-social behaviour, drug-dealing, gang intimidation’
Mary Lou McDonald says inner-city communities ‘sick and tired’ of sense of ‘threat and dread’, lack of support and services
What is the EU Migration and Asylum Pact pact and why has it been so controversial?
Agreement is standardised immigration control system across member states including tougher borders and holding centres for migrants
Election results: The candidates and constituencies to watch and what the main parties are hoping for
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Aontú calls for new border agency to oversee Ireland’s migration system
Peader Tóibín says candidates will be ‘competitive’ in 24 local electoral areas
Peadar Tóibín gets warm reception in Slane over plan to ‘crowbar’ issues on to Government agenda
Not everyone is promising Aontú a first preference but the European candidate is changing the minds of some traditional voters
European election Midlands-North-West debate: Migration a heated topic, but winning candidates hard to pick
Live debate on RTE Upfront features Peter Casey, Barry Cowen, Luke Ming Flanagan, Saoirse McHugh, Chris MacManus, Pauline O’Reilly. Peadar Tóibín and Maria Walsh
European Parliament elections: a few clear leaders and then a mad scramble for seats
Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive
Substitute bench more important than usual in upcoming European elections
Names on European candidates’ replacement lists matter more than usual with a general election on the horizon
No interest in Ireland being ‘a pawn in British politics’, says Harris, as he defends McEntee
Aontú's Peadar Tóibín tells Dáil ‘the Minister for Justice does not know what’s happening in the Department’ in light of immigration crisis
Aontú calls for ‘Irish Sea border in terms of people’ to ensure stricter immigration checks in Northern Ireland
Party leader Peadar Tóibín says a new ‘international city’ should be built in Ireland at ardfheis in Maynooth
Aontú may be ‘listening’ but party is squeezed on all sides
Party leader Peadar Tóibín calls at ardfheis for Irish Sea border which would impose passport controls on asylum seekers arriving into Northern Ireland
Do Peadar Tóibín and Aontú have their finger on the public pulse?
The conservative one-TD party is riding high after being the only party to call for no-no votes in the family and care referendums so disastrously lost by the Government parties in March
Helen McEntee frets about knife crime, although the evidence fails to show a big rise
Playing the law-and-order card may be a savvy political gambit, but hard facts stand up the argument
Sinn Féin is now out of touch with its own supporters, claims Aontú leader
Mary Lou McDonald ‘wrong-footed’ on major issues as party seeks centre ground to secure majority, Tóibín tells podcast
Referrals of child sex offenders to diversion programme almost double
Most children are rejected from the programme, meaning they must face court proceedings
Martin and Ryan to insist Varadkar’s successor commits to Coalition going full term as Opposition seeks election
Opposition parties demand early general election as Taoiseach shocks country by announcing he would resign as Fine Gael leader immediately and step down as the head of Government in early April
If the No side were ice-cream they’d lick themselves; Leo’s US photo op balls-up
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