DARA Calleary has been appointed the new Minister for Social Protection, taking over the role from retired Fine Gael TD ...

The Government faces a big challenge with trade and the economy, but the bigger fears are around chronic problems – most ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced the names of the eight Fianna Fáil TDs who are to chair Oireachtas committees.

It’s a sign of Fine Gael’s watered-down identity that it’s easy to imagine Harris in Labour or the Social Democrats ...

Backbench Government TDs and Opposition deputies are being assigned €10,000 per year jobs as Oireachtas committee chairperson ...

Sinn Féin has announced the chairpersons of the Oireachtas committees it will take charge of, including the powerful Public ...

Imagine a world where a Fianna Fáil government paid farmers to kill their calves. It sounds almost unbelievable today, given ...

Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former ...

An Oireachtas committee has been set up to encourage AI innovation and position Ireland as a leader in the responsible use of the technology.

In the last Dáil, the party had hailed Mairead Farrell, the Galway West TD, as the first female chair of PAC after Brian ...

Two Clare TDs have accused each other of being dishonest with the public in a row involving water charges. It’s after a Sinn ...

Ms McDonald said she would have changed “lots of things” about the general election campaign which saw the party perform ...