College student protest uses 90s hits to draw politicians into listening
Students at the demonstration highlighted how housing difficulties have pushed many to the margins of the traditional university experience
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Opposition’s alternative budgets propose windfall taxes and €400 energy credits
Budget 2027: Sinn Féin eyes 3% ‘solidarity tax’ and €600 for additional properties, while offering €500 ‘essentials card’
Three alternative Budget 2027 plans with one thing in common: spend, spend, spend
Labour, Sinn Féin and Social Democrats are going all in on the cost of living
Taoiseach tells Social Democrats reports of €7.50 pension increase ‘may not be true at all’
Cian O’Callaghan says reported €7.50 pension increase ‘doesn’t even keep pace with inflation’
Figures suggest new legal aid model a ‘thorough yellow packing’ of solicitors’ services
Data supplied by Minister for Justice show 75% of cases dealt with in one appearance under new system and 99% within five dates
Lawyers lose out on €6.6m in payments amid criminal legal aid dispute
Figures for payments in July and August show financial impact on lawyers in dispute with Department of Justice
Latest poll numbers show neither Government nor Opposition all that popular with electorate
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‘Help is on the way’ with energy costs, Simon Harris says in advance of budget
Pearse Doherty warns of more increases in electricity prices before Budget 2027 and criticises cut in energy credits
Poll reveals growing fragmentation of the Irish political landscape
Combined support for Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin declines 20 points over last four years, but no clear challenger emerging
Public disenchanted with the Government, but not entirely convinced by the alternatives
Cost of living is the clear issue for voters
Petrol bombing of homes should be treated as attempted murder, Dáil told
TD highlights drug dealers’ criminal spree in Cork, says death by suicide of young people over drug intimidation should also be treated as attempted murder
Five Opposition parties unite on climate action, seeking ban on LNG imports
Sinn Féin, SocDems, Labour, Greens and PBP join 40 campaign groups in calling for Climate Action Plan
Expect things to get fractious during new Dáil term amid wrestling for budget allocations
Inside Politics: Micheál Martin to face questions from Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats on Wednesday
Absence of Eoin Hayes throws a spanner in the works at Social Democrats think-in
Dublin Bay South TD later arrived at party’s pre-Dáil meeting, but issues from his life before politics stole focus for a second successive year
The Oireachtas farmers: who are the largest landowners in Leinster House?
One in seven Oireachtas members have an interest in farming with some owning large landholdings
Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns will miss party’s think-in following medical advice
Cairns, who is in the third trimester of her second pregnancy, has been advised to rest at home for a number of weeks
‘The only people on the streets are here to oppose him’: Thousands protest Trump visit
Breakaway group burns US flag before setting off firecrackers and chanting against US troops in Shannon
FF Senator paid €16,700 in travel expenses while sick at home for eight months
Holly Cairns criticises Oireachtas system that led to her being mistakenly paid €8,500 in travel expenses while on maternity leave
HSE spending controls have ‘not had sufficient impact’, says Minister
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says scale of projected HSE overspend ‘cannot be explained by demand pressures alone’
Cost-of-living measures should be budget priority, say opposition groups
Plan to increase public transport fare by 15% ‘absolutely outrageous’, says TD Paul Murphy
‘Community care’ is exposed as an empty concept when a carer dies
An advocacy group for ageing parents of children with disability believes we have replaced the high walls of the institutions with kilometres of distance instead
Your guide to the four basic camps in Irish politics
How these political forces negotiate the great tides of the age will determine the country’s future, for good or ill
‘Hawaiian’ Labour contemplates an uncertain future
Michael D Higgins and Sabina arrive to say aloha at the Labour think-in, and there is much gushing
‘Donald, Catherine; Catherine, Donald’: Connolly’s first big diplomatic test as President
Next weekend’s encounter between the US president and a hard critic has officials working feverishly to minimise the risks
Holly Cairns repays €8,500 in expenses mistakenly paid by Oireachtas during maternity leave
Social Democrats leader contacted Oireachtas about the error after she noticed failure to halt the allowance
Our politicians need to engage us with ideas as smart as the one for parents in New York
Criticising the Government isn’t enough: Opposition parties have to convince us they could make our lives better
More than two-thirds of homecare packages outsourced to third parties, HSE figures show
Change needed if nursing homes not to become default option for older people, Opposition TD says
Fuel supports extended by two months as Dáil vote splits Healy-Rae brothers
Reduction of 30c per litre for diesel and 25c for petrol to remain in place until October 31st
Limerick Social Democrats member appeals decision to expel her from party
Karen Sugrue says she is being punished for raising ‘lack of representation’ in internal meeting
A brief history of the PDs, Ireland’s most influential small party ever
For 14 of their 23 years of existence, the PDs were in government. Whatever you think of their ideology, they came with an agenda and they changed Ireland
Bizarre observation about violent offenders who are mothers
The Community Return Scheme is laudable but its application seems questionable
Alison Chawke’s early prison release: was south Dublin woman given special treatment?
Mother of three must work in community ‘two to three times per week’ for next 12 months, including cleaning public spaces
Ireland’s tech workers are learning the hard way about the risks of our economic model
Jobs losses are accelerating with more AI-related cuts on the horizon. But there are things we can do
Alison Chawke released from prison four weeks into sentence for unprovoked assault
Social Democrats justice spokesman Gary Gannon says prison ‘not the right place’ for a woman who has children
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