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Politics

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December 2025
Dartmouth Square
Deal to clear way for Metrolink will see ten Ranelagh houses being bought by TII
24 Dec 2025
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Interview
Palestine Red Crescent on two years of healthcare workers being beaten, kidnapped and killed
Updated 24 Dec 2025
4.1k
looking ahead
Taoiseach says calls to quit nothing new as he hits out at 'bile' in 'anonymous commentary'
The Fianna Fáil leader says he’s a “policy nerd” who sees a bright future for his party.
24 Dec 2025
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Ankara
Libya's top military chief and four other officials killed in plane crash over Turkey
Updated 24 Dec 2025
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Vatican
Pope calls for global truce on Christmas Day and says 'Russia rejected a request' for one
23 Dec 2025
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New South Wales
Australian state lawmakers approve sweeping gun and protest laws after Bondi attack
23 Dec 2025
5.4k
Metrolink
Judicial review proceedings against Metrolink line for Dublin have been withdrawn
Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien said ‘we’re now full steam ahead to tender and deliver this transformative project’.
Updated 23 Dec 2025
24.5k
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Christmas Special
Ukraine's Dancing With The Stars returns for one special episode
23 Dec 2025
9.6k
Glastonbury
No further action to be taken into Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set, local police say
23 Dec 2025
3.7k
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
23 Dec 2025
2.9k
Dundrum
Planning permission granted for close to 1,000 homes on site of former Central Mental Hospital
23 Dec 2025
27.9k
16
Epstein files
Email from ‘A’ at Balmoral asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’, documents show
Updated 23 Dec 2025
29.5k
FactCheck
FactCheck: Did a narrow vote in the Dáil almost open the door to abortion ‘up until birth’?
23 Dec 2025
9.0k
Here we go again
'We have to have it': Trump renews push to annex Greenland amid anger from Denmark
23 Dec 2025
26.3k
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night train
Minister wants late night trains to run all year and is talking 'options' with Iarnród Eireann
Aside from the Christmas period, the majority of train services terminate before midnight.
Christina Finn
23 Dec 2025
30.3k
85
The Morning Lead
'Squeamish debate' misses the point of working with NATO and EU states on defence, Martin says
Ireland should not be afraid of mutually beneficial co-operation with other nations amid the heightened Russian threat, the Taoiseach said.
Niall O'Connor
23 Dec 2025
9.8k
65
frosty relations
EU offers 'full solidarity' to Denmark after Trump appoints Greenland envoy
Updated 22 Dec 2025
31.5k
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13 Jun 2025
News Fix
Here's What Happened Today: Monday
22 Dec 2025
7.9k
Luas Finglas
Mediation underway with Manhattan Peanuts over Luas extension to Finglas, says minister
Christina Finn
22 Dec 2025
12.1k
Housing Crisis
Just 30% of new-build social homes target met by third quarter of 2025
22 Dec 2025
6.8k
47
Interview
McDonald on her health, Gerry Hutch, and how there will never be too many tricolours flying
Mary Lou McDonald gave her views on the controversial use of Irish flags by anti-migrant protesters.
Ahead of the Dublin Central by-election, she said the large vote for Hutch last year was an ‘F you’ to government - but not Sinn Féin.
Jane Matthews
22 Dec 2025
35.2k
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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
22 Dec 2025
3.0k
Dublin Airport
'I won't be signing that off': Minister won't agree to payout of over €1m to Kenny Jacobs
22 Dec 2025
22.8k
Road Safety
U-turn by government around disbanding RSA had nothing to do with cost, says Transport Minister
22 Dec 2025
9.4k
17
Áras An Uachtaráin
President Connolly calls for ‘peaceful resolution’ to war and conflict in first Christmas message
22 Dec 2025
11.0k
53
The Morning Lead
'We should show we're good value': Minister urges hotels not to hike prices for EU Presidency
Minister of State Thomas Byrne says the Presidency next year is an important moment for Ireland Inc.
Christina Finn
22 Dec 2025
13.7k
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Mohamed Shaalan
‘I’ll never give up’ says Dublin surgeon refused entry to Gaza Strip for third time
Dr Mohamed Shaalan had volunteered to enter Gaza with a team of WHO medical workers earlier this month, but was denied entry.
21 Dec 2025
8.7k
Palestine
Israel's security cabinet approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
21 Dec 2025
8.1k
Miami
Kremlin denies that three-way US-Ukraine-Russia talks are on the cards
21 Dec 2025
10.1k
7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: The untold story of how Jeffrey Epstein became so rich
21 Dec 2025
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Nicolas Maduro
US seizes a second oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
21 Dec 2025
9.5k
Lebanon
Taoiseach tells Lebanon Prime Minister he is ‘determined’ to get justice for Private Seán Rooney
20 Dec 2025
3.8k
Transparency
Releasing footage of Zelenskyy drone incident a 'very basic request', Labour TD says
20 Dec 2025
18.0k
59
Patrick O'Donovan
Minister for Sport says his predecessor Shane Ross set back women's sport by 'around 20 years'
19 Dec 2025
32.4k
good evening
Here's What Happened Today: Friday
19 Dec 2025
8.0k
mercosur
Farmers honk horns of 1,000 tractors in Brussels to protest trade deal
Updated 19 Dec 2025
11.5k
57
voices
Opinion: The government is delighted to see the end of 2025
Larry Donnelly
19 Dec 2025
5.0k
17
Ukraine
EU to loan Ukraine €90 billion but leaders fail to agree on using frozen Russian assets
19 Dec 2025
14.0k
good evening
Here's what happened today: Thursday
18 Dec 2025
5.1k
up close and personal
Everyone's talking about those photos of Trump's top team. Here's what the photographer has to say
Christopher Anderson reckons ‘the internet freaking out’ over untouched photos says something about our culture.
18 Dec 2025
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