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

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

Concerns over former Cabinet minister Louise Haigh's close relationship with the SDLP's Colum Eastwood are understood to have ...

The Burke family, from Castlebar, County Mayo, are known to picket over their evangelical Christian beliefs and campaigned ...

Grace O’Malley was a renowned 16th-century Irish pirate, sea captain, and chieftain who defied the conventions of her time to ...

A majority of people want Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to form a government with Independent TDs over another political party.

Headlines featuring an archbishop and the cover-up of child sex abuse were once largely the preserve of the Catholic Church, ...

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

Fianna Fáil councillor Aengus O'Rourke said he is "extremely disappointed" and will spend the Christmas period reflecting on ...

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