Dermot Wilson asked when was Mr MacSharry told about this and the response was 'five minutes before the meeting'.

Fr Pat Cogan's principles of a right to housing and social justice 'continue to guide' housing association

Seán Ó Fearghaíl said 'some leaders' in the Dáil ignored the chair and only sought protection 'when the temperature rises'

Has Ireland reached the point of 'grown-up politics'?

The Taoiseach has welcomed clarification from the president’s wife, Sabina Higgins, about her Ukraine ceasefire comments and said it’s time to move on from the controversy.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has thanked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for welcoming him to Kyiv, and has assured him that "Ireland will be with you every step of the way" as the country aims towards achieving European Union candidate status.

'Fitting' that Taoiseach will speak alongside Tánaiste at commemoration traditionally associated with Fine Gael

The Government's new cost-of-living package is unlikely to contain any new financial support

Speaking on RTÉ’s Late Late Show, Mr Martin added that “there has to be a cultural sea change”.

The Department of Health has confirmed 3,887 cases of Covid-19.

Micheál Martin says booster vaccine is key because of the protection it offers and the aim of the Government is to roll out boosters to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

Micheál Martin was speaking as he got his own booster jab at Cork's City Hall on Friday evening

Some 5,959 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed to health authorities today. There are 640 Covid-19 patients in hospital, of which 121 are in ICU.

All-Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network launched, bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines across the island of Ireland who are undertaking research in climate and biodiversity topics.

Micheál Martin said a report last week that said a 21% reduction in emissions would cost 10,000 agricultural jobs was "scaremongering"

Majority of companies will not be impacted, taoiseach  Micheál Martin said

Micheál Martin needs to make an 'appropriate, lengthy, honest, and heartfelt' apology over 1979 disaster off coast of Bantry, says maritime lawyer

Electric Ireland is upping the price of electricity by 9.3% and the price of gas by 7% from November 1

Mr Martin said lessons had to be learned and he wanted the legacy of the pandemic to be a "better-resourced health service"

Here, we look at what restrictions will be lifted and when they will happen

By October 22, the vast majority of restrictions will be lifted

The British Prime Minister said his government was currently working on “sandpapering” the Protocol to address some of the concerns about trade disruption

Micheál Martin said that the governments need to "work together" to defuse the violence, which last night saw a bus hijacked in Belfast

The Taoiseach is to meet virtually with local principals in East Cork to discuss the shortage of secondary school places affecting approximately 150 families this year.

How many jobs might be created through this new plan to rejuvenate rural towns and villages? We couldn't possibly say

The Government's new rural Ireland plan has been dubbed a "very well packaged marketing exercise" after it was claimed it contains no new spending, targets or ideas.

Eugene McCague has been asked to 'ascertain all the facts' associated with the operation of the Dublin hospital's vaccination centre

After 100 years of partition, a debate on unity was hosted on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live (March 22), which in itself is a small step for those left trapped in a six-county statelet that would serve as an artificially created utopian melting pot for the ...

Boris Johnson’s approach to the challenges that Brexit posed for Northern Ireland have been an amalgam of bluster, bluff and a freewheeling approach to facts

Micheál Martin said vaccination centres will be used to a "far greater extent" in quarter two of the year.

This announcement mirrors the announcement made regarding the EU and UK yesterday

Policy needs to be looked at from a more local level instead of being written by individuals who will never be affected by their one approach fits all policy

Micheál Martin has been at his best when he has spoken plainly and clearly to the Irish people, and he will need to be at his best speaking to an increasingly weary nation today.

Severe limitations on both personal freedoms and businesses are expected to remain in place for at least another seven weeks.

Micheál Martin told media he had been clear on the issue and that he has been consistent in saying there would be no large scale reopening of society

The phased reopening of schools is to begin March 1, the cabinet sub-committee on Covid-19 has agreed. The plan, which will go to cabinet on Tuesday, will see primary schools reopen for junior infants, senior infants, and first and second class.

The general election took place one year ago today, delivering seismic change that transformed Ireland from a two-party system to a three-party one.

Congratulating Micheál Martin (Irish Examiner editorial, January 26) for surviving 10 years as Fianna Fáil leader is akin to damning him with faint praise.

His time as Taoiseach may not be what he had pictured, but that has not lessened his resolve to tackle the problems facing the country, he tells Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Open letter to the Taoiseach “on behalf of Mná na hÉireann” said the words turned "what should have been a watershed moment of healing into a whitewashing of trauma" 

Other issues, such as mandatory quarantining of those arriving from abroad, and the reopening of schools are also expected to be discussed at the meeting.

While the mother and baby homes are now closed, some of the attitudes that went with them remain a stain on our national landscape, writes Alison O'Connor

New restrictions have been announced for travel, education, childcare and other areas. 

Worrying statistics but we also need to focus on the positives