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heading abroad

Middle-aged men are the biggest fans of the new passport card

4 Jan 2016

27.3k

patients on trolleys

Here's what Leo Varadkar makes of this Fine Gael ad from 2007

4 Jan 2016

17.3k

Analysis

Shocking and provocative but here's why THAT Labour ad worked

4 Jan 2016

16.7k

114

on the offensive

'He'll cut the head off Isis' - Donald Trump's first TV ad is about as Donald Trump as it gets

4 Jan 2016

18.5k

Crime

Three strikes and life: This is Renua's radical policy on crime

4 Jan 2016

24.2k

167

School's Out

Renua wants to abolish the Leaving Cert as we know it

4 Jan 2016

20.2k

Negative Campaigning

Criticism for Labour ad showing Gerry Adams and Micheál Martin as gay couple on wedding day

3 Jan 2016

41.9k

214

Mass Shootings

Obama and Hilary want crackdown on gun violence ... Trump, not so much

3 Jan 2016

10.2k

The Daily Poll

Poll: Is the proposed Labour 'gay marriage' election ad appropriate?

3 Jan 2016

26.8k

130

no place in the home

Poll: Is it time the 'women's place is in the home' wording was removed from the constitution?

2 Jan 2016

30.8k

109

US politics

US mayor says sorry to Muslims for calling Barack Obama a Muslim

2 Jan 2016

15.8k

you shall not pass

The government was very concerned with bike tyres in 1985

2 Jan 2016

20.6k

belfast bunfight

Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush Loyalist strikers just like she did the miners

2 Jan 2016

14.5k

happy out

'No, no, no': Lucinda REALLY doesn't miss 'undemocratic' Fine Gael

2 Jan 2016

11.8k

damned aerobics

Ireland was terrified that exercise could be the end of us all in the early 1980s...

1 Jan 2016

54.3k

dev's car

An English car enthusiast made a play for Eamon de Valera's Rolls Royce in 1985

1 Jan 2016

20.9k

storm frank

Enda holds emergency meeting as new rainfall warning issued for eight counties

1 Jan 2016

33.6k

Kiss me I'm Enda

14 pictures that prove Enda Kenny loves to lob the gob

1 Jan 2016

26.9k

Money Money Money

These are the Budget measures kicking in today

1 Jan 2016

80.9k

donegal dodginess

The great Donegal postal voting scam of 1985

1 Jan 2016

18.4k

no qualms

This letter is most blatant Big Tobacco threat to a Taoiseach you're likely to see

1 Jan 2016

16.7k

not impressed

The man who let the Taoiseach know exactly what he thought about Jack the Ripper being Irish

1 Jan 2016

15.8k

Stuck on repeat

This is the one phrase you'll hear over and over again during the election

1 Jan 2016

16.0k

that's how we roll

That time an Irish minister got the UK's Northern Secretary so hammered he had to be walked around a park

31 Dec 2015

38.9k

joan rivers

Pictures: the moment Joan Burton fell out of a boat in Kilkenny floods

31 Dec 2015

138k

327

storm frank

Where is Enda? The Taoiseach has made an appearance

31 Dec 2015

54.4k

140

Mansion House

Garret FitzGerald really, really did not like Sinn Féin in 1985

31 Dec 2015

16.1k

115

TOM CLONAN

My simple New Year's wish is for my son to live in a truly equal Ireland

Tom Clonan

31 Dec 2015

268

off you go so

Irish prisons ran out of overtime cash in 1984 - so they started letting prisoners go early

31 Dec 2015

10.3k

naughty posters

Now it's Sinn Féin's turn for a stint on the bold step regarding election posters

31 Dec 2015

14.9k

109

done and dusted

After months of controversy, the banking inquiry signs off on final report

31 Dec 2015

7.4k

Day of Reckoning

Today is D-day for all public buildings to be made accessible for those with disabilities

31 Dec 2015

8.7k

Sexting

Labour MP suspended after telling 17-year-old he wanted to spank her

31 Dec 2015

21.2k

L'Oréal TREATMENT

Tánaiste's head of staff is paid €52,000 more than pay cap

31 Dec 2015

29.4k

112

rural crime

Pest control, maintenance and security at closed Garda stations has cost €846,000 to date

31 Dec 2015

10.0k

terror blaze

State Papers 1985: Garret Fitzgerald's government wasn't too keen on helping Stardust victims

31 Dec 2015

15.4k

cheers for that

Getting paid today? Michael Noonan has sorted it so you won't pay extra USC

31 Dec 2015

30.9k

Abortion

Trump spokeswoman threatens to 'wear a foetus' on TV following backlash over bullet necklace

30 Dec 2015

39.2k

1985 state papers

'Say the daily rosary': This is the kind of fan mail you get when you're Taoiseach

30 Dec 2015

14.4k

State Papers

Irish people really didn't like paying for their TV licence 30 years ago

30 Dec 2015

15.6k

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