People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy said Catherine Connolly is the ‘best-positioned progressive left candidate’ to stop Fine Gael or Fianna Fail.

The cases brought by Kerry Sinn Féin TD, Pa Daly and People Before Profit-Solidarity TD, Paul Murphy point to a section of the Irish Constitution which limits the number of government members to 15 – including the taoiseach – and provides that they meet and act as a collective authority.

Mr McGrath, who served as Minister of State for Disability between 2016 and 2020, on Thursday gave evidence at the hearing of People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Paul Murphy’s action challenging the attendance of super-junior ministers at Cabinet meetings.

Minister of State attending Cabinet, or super-junior ministers, are appointed by the government on the nomination of the Taoiseach.

Joseph Cloherty was accused of having, without a lawful excuse, made a threat to Paul Murphy, intending him to believe it would be carried out that he would kill or cause serious harm to Jessica Spear.

Murphy was detained on two occasions in Egypt while participating in the Global March to Gaza,

Paul Murphy said he went to retrieve his confiscated phone from a Cairo police station but was prevented from leaving

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Paul Murphy has been detained again in Egypt, according to his family

In a post on X, Mr Murphy said they were released last night, but that police still had their phones.

The partner of Paul Murphy, who was detained in Egypt, has called on Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Paul Murphy has said he is among several people detained by Egyptian authorities while on a march to Gaza.

A delegation of 50 Irish people will be among thousands setting off on a global 'March to Gaza' today

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

The official use of diplomatic bags came under scrutiny in 2022 after it emerged that they had been deployed to send novelty socks

People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Paul Murphy’s case will commence immediately after the expected conclusion of Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly’s case on July 9th, the High Court president said.

Micheál Martin said there needs to be an ‘exhaustive’ review of unnecessary hip surgeries at two Dublin hospitals.

Resistance to an easing of rent caps has been likened to opposition against water charges by Sinn Fein’s housing spokesman.

The Dublin West TD said she had ‘a number of threats about killing me’.

A ‘robust’ probe is being carried out into claims that weapons were being flown through Irish skies unknown to the Irish authorities.

The three-judge divisional court is expected to sit in July to hear the Sinn Fein TD's legal challenge.

The Mothers Against Genocide group says one woman was subject to a cavity search, while others were strip searched.

The Government motion expressing that the Dáil has confidence in the Ceann Comhairle passed by 96 votes to 71, with two abstentions.

The Dáil is debating a confidence motion in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy over her role in approving a vote which allowed the Government to make changes to speaking time in the Dáil. 

Last month, the principal of Sacred Heart Junior School in the Killinarden area of Tallaght said it was facing closure because it could no longer afford to pay basic bills.

Labour’s Ged Nash said that the Ceann Comhairle needed to show that she is ‘not in any way partisan’.

Pa Daly's case claims the Government is 'acting contrary' to the limit on Cabinet members and to the 'expressed wish of the people of Ireland'

Micheál Martin said it was a ‘bit rich’ for the opposition to blame the Ceann Comhairle after creating widespread disruption.

The Ceann Comhairle faces a confidence motion on Tuesday over her handling of a vote which cut opposition speaking rights

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Michael Lowry, who is at the centre of a dispute that divided the Dáil, stuck two fingers up to members of the opposition as proceedings were adjourned amid chaotic scenes.

The Tipperary North TD has been contacted for comment after he was caught apparently giving a V-sign in a video recorded by People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy.

Dublin TD Paul Murphy said there was ‘a direct undermining of the capacity of the opposition to hold the government to account’.

The Department of Education has been accused of ‘kicking the can down the road’ over the funding of a Dublin school facing closure.

The school can no longer afford to pay basic bills, its principal said.

Attempts to introduce metered water charges as part of the bailout programme were abandoned in 2014, after numerous mass protests.

Among the reliefs sought by Mr Murphy is an injunction restraining “Minister of State attending Cabinet” from going to Government meetings.

Mr Murphy’s case claims that the attendance and/or participation of super junior ministers at government meetings is inconsistent with Bunreacht na hÉireann for several reasons.

People Before Profit politician Paul Murphy wants an injunction which prohibits junior ministers from attending Cabinet

Verona Murphy decided that government-affiliated TDs cannot be considered as members of the opposition.

The Dáil Reform Committee is meeting ahead of the return of the parliament on Wednesday.

Opposition TDs suggested that further protests were possible when the Dáil reconvenes on Wendesday.

A virtual meeting of the Dáil reform committee on Thursday night ended with no resolution.

Joseph Cloherty, 42, of no fixed address, appeared at Dublin District Court on a charge under section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act

Ivana Bacik held separate meetings with Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris and Tanaiste and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin on Tuesday.

In the People Before Profit manifesto, they said they would legalise cannabis and promote not-for-profit cannabis clubs.

Roderic O’Gorman said that asylum seekers have no entitlement to housing supports or homeless accommodation.

The introduction of 24-hour security patrols along Dublin's Grand Canal is being slammed

The Army chaplain was attacked on Thursday night at Renmore Barracks in Galway.

The judge ruled that Paul Murphy was entitled to an order quashing the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) decision