The departure is yet another blow for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, after the recent announcements of Brendan Griffin, John Paul Phelan, Joe McHugh and Michael Creed.

Speaking at an event in his constituency, Darragh O'Brien said that Fianna Fáil will look for measures to ensure that landlords remain in the rental market

Sources in FG say the junior minister spends his lunch time in the Dáil bar 'constantly criticising' the Taoiseach's leadership

Tim Lombard queries why the crunch retail forum includes retailers 'from Primark and Eason' but not food producers

Finance Minister also said he has asked the Central Bank to look into high home loan interest rates being charged by non-bank sector companies

During sharp exchanges in the Dáil, the Taoiseach made controversial comments to People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy, who labelled it 'another abuse of Dáil privilege'

Despite the retirement of John Paul Phelan, the Taoiseach believes he will lead his party to 45 seats at the next election

The Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes poll has suggested Mr Varadkar’s party dropped from 23% last month to just 15%, an all-time low

The recent departures announced from Fine Gael TDs serves to illustrate the task at hand for Leo Varadkar, Fine Gael leader, as opposed to Leo Varadkar, An Taoiseach

Mr Phelan suffered a heart attack in July 2020, saying the type of cardiac arrest he had has just a 12% survival rate

Mr Phelan, a TD for Carlow-Kilkenny informed Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of his decision ahead of the meeting on Tuesday night

Ms McDonald said she would not rule any potential coalition partners out following the next general election, including current Government parties

Support for Fine Gael drops eight points in the wake of the the ending of the eviction ban

At a private meeting of the party, Fine Gael TDs and senators expressed a wide range of views on transgender issues

86 TDs voted in favour of the confidence motion which the Government had tabled in itself, with 67 voting against

Sinn Féin remains far out in front compared to the other parties at 31%, with Fine Gael in second on 22%. 

The Taoiseach, Tánaiste, and Green Party leader last night thrashed out the wording of a counter-motion to the one tabled by Sinn Féin

A Government statement said that the Ukrainian president thanked the Taoiseach for Ireland’s ongoing support, as well as wishing a happy St Patrick’s Day to Ireland

Though admitting to 'inaccuracies' and 'sloppiness' in Sipo reports, Sinn Féin's president insists her party's books are clean

Senior Coalition sources tell the 'Irish Examiner' a snap election could follow swiftly after October’s expected giveaway budget

Taoiseach said at least 40,000 new homes are needed every year and that construction is ramping up to that target

Holly Cairns, a new entrant, has become the second most popular party leader in the Dáil

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said the negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol are over and the deal has been struck in the form of the Windsor Framework

Taoiseach indicated the move to change the tax treatment of landlords would be a factor in the next budget, adding it would have to be linked to better rights for renters

Ahead of the centenary on March 7, Kerry Sinn Féin councillors want to have a new account of the atrocity officially recorded

Ireland is in the bottom third in the European Union for home-ownership, a new report shows

Finance ministers Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohoe will meet on Thursday to discuss which benefits are to be scaled back

During a 2008 Dáil debate, Mr Varadkar compared the former taoiseach's evidence before the Mahon Tribunal to that of criminal John Gilligan

Leo Varadkar has returned as Taoiseach, but his party is increasingly looking in rag order as defections ahead of any election continue to mount, writes Daniel McConnell

The party’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin said that Paschal Donohoe’s failure to declare expenses was substantially more serious

Ó Broin: 'Where mistakes were made, the moment they were brought to our attention, we acknowledged the mistakes and we rectified them'

Most concerning is the fact that many of those on the exit list are people seen as having more to give to party and politics

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is facing an electoral crisis with up to nine Fine Gael TDs now expected to stand down ahead of the next general election.

A number of politicians are angry,  after Government approved the priority drafting of a Bill that would obligate short-term letting properties to be registered with Fáilte Ireland before they are rented out

Sinn Féin declared no spending on media engagement during the 2016 election,  despite registering €20,000 in such spending in 2020

Party badly calculated the numbers back in 2020 and cannot afford to make the same mistake again

Minister of State at the Department of Defence Peter Burke said Sinn Féin now has to "fully explain everything."

If members of the opposition went into the Chamber in the hope of finding out how exactly the former Finance Minister calculates his sums, they were left extremely disappointed

Leo Varadkar's 'land grab' of key issues has ruffled feathers but some — notably including a Fianna Fáil minister — say his involvement could help them get crucial reforms over the line

Public Expenditure Minister has also recused himself from all matters relating to Sipo and ethics legislation while he is under investigation

Bus and rail drivers are tired of feeling unsafe at work, and are calling on Government to address the issue

Damien English resignation

English and his boss Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will hope that his speedy resignation will help draw a line on the affair and allow the Government move on, but such hopes are fanciful, writes Daniel McConnell

Tánaiste Micheál Martin said that it was "not acceptable" that people had found themselves waiting on trolleys and that while the HSE "does a very good job", lessons must be learned about the governance of the executive