Justice Minister Helen McEntee should face Dáil questions this week about her role in the nomination of Seamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court, the Opposition has said.

There is a case to be made that we as a country have been led by a conversation about the virus which has been unbalanced and disproportionate, writes Daniel McConnell

Political failure to implement proper standards for the judiciary has come back to haunt the inhabitants of Leinster House

The Supreme Court judge does not need to resign over his attending of a dinner in Clifden, simply because others have

Micheál Martin is grappling with an unhappy parliamentary party as well as external issues, writes Daniel McConnell, Political Editor

The new status quo will in a way serve to protect the perpetrators of these wicked crimes, but also robs the victims who wish to speak out of their voice

The effect of the actions taken by Donnelly, O’Gorman and their Government is to drive yet another stake into the hearts of the survivors and victims of the Mother and Baby Homes and the CervivalCheck scandals.

Nphet hadn’t thought it through, they said. They, the medics, had sought to bounce government into a lockdown. The country wasn’t ready for Level 5, they told us.

The truth is a pattern of undermining his own government has emerged since Leo Varadkar has become Tánaiste.

While the government announced a July Stimulus package totalling €8bn, much more is needed to offset the impact of lockdowns and the total shutdown of some industries for seven months