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Lawyers

Ministers agree reform of legal services, with new regulator to consult on ‘one-stop-shops’

28 Jan 2014

7.9k

RIP

Former government minister Ted Nealon has died

28 Jan 2014

8.3k

i'm a ceann comhairle get me out of here

"I'm not going to sit here and get upset every day." - Ceann Comhairle threatens to resign

28 Jan 2014

16.0k

Pylons

Could controversial power lines go underground? The government wants to find out

28 Jan 2014

7.2k

Penalty Points

Government tells PAC to cooperate with Garda Ombudsman investigation

28 Jan 2014

4.2k

Youth guarantee

Under-25s who fail to accept some JobBridge internships could face dole cut

28 Jan 2014

13.3k

144

Garda Whistleblower

PAC may hold rare vote as government TDs say penalty points inquiry should be stopped

28 Jan 2014

6.5k

HSE Service plan

'In my 21 years in Leinster House I cannot remember anything like this happening before'

28 Jan 2014

13.7k

Penalty Points

Shatter: 'I'm not trying to silence whisteblowers'

28 Jan 2014

7.2k

Oireachtas agenda

Health cuts, the banking inquiry, 'sludge'... and everything else happening in Leinster House today

28 Jan 2014

3.2k

Outsourcing

Concern about 'cherrypicking' unemployed as government privatises job scheme

28 Jan 2014

12.5k

Penalty Points

We'll find out later today if a serving garda sergeant will appear before the PAC

28 Jan 2014

4.1k

Shatter v PAC

Shatter slams ‘disturbing’ PAC comments, asks Ombudsman to probe penalty points issue

27 Jan 2014

16.3k

107

Water Water Everywhere

'In a mythical country, you'd have set up a water body with less people' - Noonan

27 Jan 2014

9.6k

Election 2014

'It's not personal': Senator challenging Phil Prendergast for Labour MEP nomination

27 Jan 2014

5.1k

blasphemer

Another potential referendum, this time on the offence of blasphemy

27 Jan 2014

10.3k

Trouble Brewing

'We cannot do all the work': PAC's growing prominence leads to tensions among members

27 Jan 2014

6.9k

Election 2014

Mary Fitzpatrick named as Fianna Fáil election candidate

26 Jan 2014

13.6k

cold water

"It's not a quango": Rabbitte defends €5.7m Irish Water 'transition' body

26 Jan 2014

10.2k

pension checks

Burton defends welfare checks on widows and widowers

26 Jan 2014

21.9k

190

house of cards

'Political carpets have been infested with maggots': 5 winners and 5 losers from the political week

26 Jan 2014

9.9k

Meet the candidates

One of these three people will be a Fianna Fáil election candidate by this evening

26 Jan 2014

13.7k

Mixed Fortunes

Good news (and bad) for coalition as opinion polls give contrasting takes

25 Jan 2014

15.2k

Reform Conference

9 things we learned from the Reform Alliance’s ‘monster meeting’

25 Jan 2014

24.3k

Reform Alliance

Creighton: I did not approach Peadar Tóibín about Reform conference

25 Jan 2014

6.3k

Reform Alliance

‘We need a new party like a hole in the head’: Conference discusses political and health reform

25 Jan 2014

19.4k

149

Reform Conference

'I'm here to see if reform is actually achievable' (videos)

25 Jan 2014

6.0k

alcohol sponsorship

'There's something distasteful about a sportsperson promoting a drug'

25 Jan 2014

22.6k

1918

Senator gathers all the ladies of Leinster House for photo shoot

25 Jan 2014

9.3k

the disaffected

Reform Alliance: 'For far too long politics has been seen as a closed shop'

Terence Flanagan TD

25 Jan 2014

145

Analysis

Conference must show that Reform Alliance is about more than just abortion issue

25 Jan 2014

5.0k

Whistleblowers

Callinan has “no difficulty” in providing information to PAC

24 Jan 2014

12.2k

The RA

“There are some very good ministers and some very poor ones”

24 Jan 2014

19.5k

Fiiiiiiiight

Cowen: "Humphreys has 'crocodile tears' on Irish Water, Humphreys: "Do your homework."

24 Jan 2014

10.2k

Cyberbullying

Social media: the good, the bad and the ugly

24 Jan 2014

13.2k

Penalty Points

TDs divided on whether PAC should hear from garda whistleblowers publicly

24 Jan 2014

6.8k

smiling eyes

Enda's charming smile is too much for this Bloomberg presenter (GIF)

24 Jan 2014

52.9k

102

Censorship

Censorship Board can't be abolished until it deals with Alan Shatter's 'Laura'

24 Jan 2014

12.6k

tighten your belts

This is how the government plans to tackle the politicians' allowance bill

24 Jan 2014

6.8k

Davos

British exit from EU wouldn't give Taoiseach a headache

24 Jan 2014

12.1k

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