It is competence in getting value for this and delivering tangible improvements that are in question. Talk of a new ...

By allowing inflation to outstrip tax bands and social welfare hikes, the government boosts its coffers by stealth.

Over time, the institute broadened its geographical scope to include other regions, but retained an Irish focus in the midst ...

“Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Irish government don’t treat any other country as they do Israel by going to these ...

Irish premier Simon Harris has formally tendered his resignation as part of the formalities for the first sitting of the new ...

Things have come full circle for Independent TD and newly elected Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy. Having started out as a ...

Colum Eastwood said his party’s New Ireland Commission - set up to facilitate discussions on the possibilities of a united ...

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has never truly known peace, existing in states of crisis of varying magnitude. What was ...

In autumn 2023, the world woke up to the existence of a new face of Irish politics: a violent far right. On a cold November night in Dublin, young men apparently inspired by inflammatory online calls ...

Verona Murphy has become the first female speaker of the Irish parliament as part of a deal to form a coalition government.

In 2015, she became only the second woman ever to be appointed president of the Irish Road Haulage Association. That gave her a prominent national profile at a time when so much political focus ...