"I never thought I'd see a bill like this before us, but we know it must be passed," said Senator James Reilly. .

Irish people’s appetite for investing in shares and other such asset classes is likely to fall in the coming months, largely due to the continuing fallout from the spread of coronavirus, Bank of Ireland has said.

Veteran Labour TD Brendan Ryan has decided to stand down from the party's General Election ticket in Dublin Fingal, to allow his parliamentary assistant Duncan Smith to stand in his place.

Festive seasons come and go, but some moments can never be forgotten, discovers Donal O’Keeffe.

“The Party does not propose to discipline her, and she will remain our Party’s Spokesperson on Justice, Equality & Children in the Seanad."

Fianna Fáil senator and Fingal by-election candidate Lorraine Clifford-Lee will not be disciplined or demoted for tweets she posted before she entered politics, the party has said.

Irish men and women who died in past wars or on service with the UN will be remembered today at a series of events across Ireland.

Michael Clifford joins Grace O’Sullivan, the Green Party candidate for Ireland South in the upcoming European elections, as she takes to the campaign trail on Shannonside.

Health Minister Simon Harris wants to make children’s vaccinations mandatory and has sought legal advice on the matter.

The business world is paying tributes to Superquinn founder Feargal Quinn, who has died aged 82.

Mr Quinn served as a Senator from 1993 to 2016.

We are witnessing the return of an “ugly, xenophobic corruption of nationalism” President Michael D Higgins has warned.

Such hostility is predictable when you remember that just 19 women have sat at the Cabinet table, the top table in Irish politics, writes Daniel McConnell.

Born in Drum, Athlone, in June 1973, Denis Naughten grew up in a staunch Fine Gael house.

A bill which would reduce the voting age for local and European elections to 16 is due before the Seanad today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his country's Foreign Ministry to summon the Irish ambassador in Israel after the Seanad debated a bill tonight to block the import and sale of goods from Israeli settlements.

University of Limerick’s Governing Authority has voted unanimously to appoint former Tánaiste Mary Harney as chancellor of the university and chairperson of its Governing Authority.

Former Fianna Fáil Senator Des Hanafin has died.

Welcome to 2017. Already it’s better than last year simply because it’s not 2016, even if some of you are probably still a little fragile this morning.

A Bill aimed at protecting freelance workers has been passed by the Seanad.

Dear Taoiseach Mr Enda Kenny,

A number of government ministers who lost their seats last weekend are planning to run for Seanad Éireann in next month's elections.

John Meagher meets Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, the women who sparked the debate for marriage equality when they fought to have their Canadian union recognised.

President Michael D Higgins led tributes to his friend, playwright Brian Friel who died yesterday at his home in Greencastle, Co Donegal, at the age of 86.

I very much welcome the decision of Amnesty International to support the decriminalisation of prostitution.

Fine Gael Oireachtas party chairman Dan Neville TD, who has announced that he will not seek re-election to the next Dáil, can claim to be the greatest survivor in Irish politics.

In the last decade there has been a rapid change in the structure of Irish society. 

Mary C Murphy says while earlier Seanad reform proposals never saw the light of day. This Government has a chance to challenge that pattern of rejection.

Newry-based veterinary pharmaceutical group, Norbrook Laboratories received an insurance pay-out of £6.12m (€8.55m) arising from the death of its founder and CEO, the late Co Louth native, Edward Haughey.

World-famous ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s is encouraging Irish people to vote yes in the upcoming marriage equality referendum.

Perhaps an acute apprehension prompted former President Mary McAleese to disclose her intended vote in the marriage referendum, notwithstanding the consistent backing for this proposition in opinion polls (‘We must back marriage equality poll’, Irish Examiner, April 14).

Fire safety issues are not the only problem that residents have encountered at Longboat Quay.

The Government is to consider Seanad calls for a public vote to protect the public ownership of Irish Water after it suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Upper House.

It will be compulsory to register the name of the father on all birth certificates here under new legislation to be enacted before the end of the year.

IS it just me, or has the political world gone mad? I’ve never seen so much invective heaped on a political leader, from outside and inside his own party. 

Fondly remembered by the people of his native Rooskey, Albert Reynolds has been described as a "kind gentleman and the pride of the village" by those who knew him.

The members of any representative political institution, elected or merely nominated, are entrusted with that body’s integrity and reputation, its sense of purpose and its sense of possibility.

Pre-tax profits at Northern Ireland-based pharmaceutical group, Norbrook Laboratories established by the late Co Louth native, Edward Haughey, last year decreased by 9% to £14.4m (€18.2m). 

How do we restore trust in and credibility to our institutions, asks Gerard Howlin?