The Stormont leader said the UK budget had been a missed opportunity to support those struggling to pay for food and heat their homes

The Ukrainian president was effusive in his gratitude for Irish support and was greeted like a rock star in the Dáil

The party’s two TDs did not clap following the Ukrainian president’s address to a joint sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

A science and technology museum was first proposed in 2000, but no timeline for development is currently available.

The Normal People author has given her support to the banned group, the High Court heard.

Transport and Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien said Micheál Martin was on government business

Magnus Brunner said Ireland is ‘well prepared’ ahead of the deadline for implementing new EU migration and asylum rules.

Helen McEntee said further work was still needed to end the conflict with Russia.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commenting as talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials took place in Geneva.

Opposition leaders criticised the government’s new housing policy during Leaders Questions on Wednesday.

Speaking on RTÉ radio the former Minister for Finance spoke about his experience in Irish public life

A commission to investigate Troubles-related killings and a separate information recovery body will be established under the Bill.

The figures were released as MPs are set to debate and vote on the Government’s new legacy legislation later on Tuesday.

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said he will be publishing a new International Protection Bill to reform Ireland’s asylum system later this year.

‘We will not allow our party to be exposed to any far-right elements,’ Sinn Féin national chairman Declan Kearney said.

Bookies have slashed odds on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan being the next Fianna Fáil leader amid pressure on Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Paul Givan called the no-confidence motion against him a ‘calculated attempt to drive a unionist minister from office’.

Paul Murphy raised ‘very serious issues at the zoo’ as he introduced legislation to call for an emergency inspection at the site.

Some moments defined the headlines, others defined generations. But can you remember what decade they actually happened in?

The Stormont Education Minister defended asking his department to publicise his visit to a school in Israel amid calls for him to resign.

Ivan Yates is to leave the hugely popular political podcast he co-hosts with Matt Cooper, Path to Power

A Director of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression has also been appointed by the Executive Office

“I don’t think we can have this top-down approach anymore.”

John McGuinness, TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, said the party made “serious errors” in the presidential election campaign which ultimately saw its candidate Jim Gavin dropping out of contention.

The Sinn Féin president said her party will contest the resulting by-election in the constituency

Many of those who spoiled their ballots in the presidential election had written in Maria Steen’s name instead of the eligible candidates.

John McGuinness said party members were ‘disappointed by the lack of selection process’ in the presidential election.

The defeated Irish presidential candidate said she and her family were subjected to ‘absolutely awful sectarian abuse’ during the campaign.

The electorate had the choice between left-wing independent Catherine Connolly, former Cabinet minister Heather Humphreys and ex-Dublin football manager Jim Gavin, who withdrew from campaigning three weeks ago.

Micheál and Mary Martin chatted with locals at the polling station, and nobody mentioned that, although Fianna Fáil candidate Jim Gavin was still on the ballot, he had spectacularly withdrawn from the race three weeks ago.

She grew up on a farm outside a village called Drum, located at the Cavan-Monaghan border.

He said the past 14 years in office have shown him that Irish people are committed to ‘seeing the ‘other’ as friend’.

Mr Benn unveiled a legacy framework for dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past with Tánaiste Simon Harris last month.

Catherine Connolly said Fine Gael were ‘absolutely terrified’ of her campaign, in response to criticisms of her work as a barrister.

Stormont Economy minister Caoimhe Archibald issued instructions to officials about not engaging in UK/Israel trade talks.

The poll showed that combined support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, at 35 per cent, is at a historic low.

The Tanaiste’s comments came after Fine Gael candidate for the Irish presidency suggested a Stormont parliament could be retained in a united Ireland.

Rival presidential candidate Catherine Connolly accused the Government of not doing enough to plan for constitutional change on the island

A House of Lords committee called for urgent action to address issues with arrangements designed to give politicians and stakeholders a greater say.

The draft laws came after the UK government unveiled a joint framework agreed upon with the Irish Government last month.

Last year’s local and general elections saw four people co-opted onto Cork City Council. David Linnane looks at the circumstances around how they came to be councillors and how they have coped with the roles

Tánaiste Simon Harris is to update Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday about a ‘substantial aid package’ to Gaza from Ireland.

Simon Harris welcomed the release of hostages on Monday

Catherine Connolly was ahead in two recent polls ahead of the presidential election.

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty made the claim during Leaders’ Questions on Thursday.

The Alliance Party leader described the incident as ‘bullying and intimidation’.

However the Justice Minister said it is ‘not an immediate concern for me’.

It comes as fallout continues from Mr Gavin’s shock announcement of his withdrawal from the presidential race.

The rap trio claim the case is politically driven.

Britain's CPS said there is an ‘important point of law that needs to be clarified’.