While embracing the US, and co-operating with Nato-led missions, Ireland has shied away from joining Nato. Until now.

Despite recent revisionist interpretations, the facts make nonsense of the notion that the former European commissioner had been hung out to dry after Golfgate

We are facing the inevitability that only military force will be enough to stop Putin in his tracks

The recording of an internal Department of Health meeting on January 27 contained references to ‘fake targets’, concerns about the HSE’s financial ‘sloppiness’, and the credibility of the health budget.

An ominous sense of looming dread has begun to engulf the Government about the year ahead

The finance minister says he has unfinished business in Irish politics.   'I am a long way away yet from having to make the case about my legacy', he tells Daniel McConnell, Political Editor

She has garnered the trust of senior Cabinet colleagues, but there are doubts as to whether Norma Foley has the style or vision needed for leadership

We have endured a rollercoaster of ups and downs, new variants, closures, cancelled holidays and family gatherings, not being able to mourn our dead properly, and on and on

Whether it is or isn’t the end, this is a watershed moment in this country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting before Christmas, party leader and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar put his ministers “on notice”.