Arts Minister Josepha Madigan has questions to answer around the Maria Bailey personal injury claim in which she advised her party colleague, Green leader Eamon Ryan insists.

Artists and musicians out of paid work will be able to claim the dole for up to a year without having to supplement their income with casual work.

Ministers will discuss a pay and allowances deal for the Defence Forces at Cabinet today.

Arts Minister Josepha Madigan has confirmed she and the Cabinet disagreed with concerns raised by senior officials on the €3bn National Broadband Plan.

The Constitution is not the appropriate place to determine the rules of divorce, Arts Minister Josepha Madigan will claim today.

The government jet will not be used to bring home ISIS bride Lisa Marie Smith but the mother-of-one will face a security assessment when she is returned to Irish soil.

The Government jet will not be used to bring home ‘Isis bride’ Lisa Marie Smith.

The Government will today agree the wording for May’s divorce referendum, which proposes reducing from four to two years the living apart period required for divorcing couples.

The proposed reduction in a waiting period for a divorce, he said, would reduce trauma for families.

The Government's €2bn urban redevelopment plan has been labelled "a major slap in the face" for key areas outside of Dublin after Waterford city received just €6m in funds to rejuvenate the area.

Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath has said there is a need for tax cuts in Budget 2019 or workers will inevitably end up paying more to the state with higher wages.

A licensing agreement on the €12m Government funding pledged to the stalled Cork event centre expires next year, it has emerged.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar may use the resignation of Frances Fitzgerald as Tánaiste as an opportunity for a wider reshuffle at Cabinet to embolden the party ahead of any general election.

Board members and senior staff of arts and culture organisations are to be sent on workshops on bullying, abuse of power, and sexual harassment in the workplace in the wake of the allegations against former Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has called for an independent investigation into allegations of harassment at the Gate Theatre, against its former director Michael Colgan.

It's either a feast or a famine, as the saying goes. But the Government delivered a little bit of both during its Cabinet meeting in Cork today.

Government will be powerless to force RTÉ to publish the salary details of any presenter earning more than €100,000 if the publicly-funded State broadcaster refuses to do so.

International music performers benefiting from multimillion-euro concerts in Ireland should be forced to pay their tax liabilities here, amid concerns they are leaving the country without settling fees.

Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy will make a formal complaint today alleging Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and four Fine Gael TDs “defamed” him during Wednesday’s divisive Dáil Jobstown row.

City officials have defended their handling of the Cork event centre saga which has been hit by more delays and new fears about soaring costs.

“She’s 100% committed. He’ll just have to target someone else.” It may still officially be a polite, cordial oh-so-Fine Gael leadership race, but there is no mistaking the fact the gloves are slowly coming off in the fight to become taoiseach.

Shock and Awe, Blitzkrieg, total annihilation. That was the clear strategy from the Leo ‘X Factor’ Varadkar camp on the first day of the campaign to replace Enda Kenny as Taoiseach, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

Two Government ministers have backed plans for an imminent review of the religious patronage of more than a dozen hospitals across the country, after Health Minister Simon Harris publicly confirmed he is planning the move.

Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar may want to be the new broom that sweeps Fine Gael clean, but Enda Kenny was retaining a firm grip on the handle at the Cruinniú na Cásca festivities.

It’s unseemly to view the artefacts of the past on display at the NMI when staff are being harassed in the present. Complaints have been ignored by the Department of the Arts, writes Clodagh Finn.

More than €9m in capital funding for arts and culture centres across the country has been allocated by the Arts Minister.

The filming of the next Star Wars blockbuster along with increased activity in Irish film, animation and television drama saw a record-breaking €250m production spend in Ireland in 2016, according to the Irish Film Board.

TDs and other elected representatives across the country have given a mix of recommendations and complaints to the boundary commission ahead of proposed constituency changes this year.

An Arts Council conference tomorrow highlights the importance of the arts to society and the issue of funding, says Sheila Pratschke

Every schoolchild will have access to art, music, drama, and coding lessons as part of an ambitious national cultural programme.

Previously announced Government plans to release State records relating to the Troubles and peace process in Northern Ireland are to be accelerated amid concern Ireland’s version of events is being overtaken by that of Britain.

I don’t think there’s a single article that has ever been written about a male politician in the same vein, writes Alison O’Connor.

The former director of the National Museum is furious that the Seanad is to move into the building while staff are so anxious they have been “weeping”.

A new scheme to help six major arts projects is to be announced today by Arts Minister Heather Humphreys.

Repairs to the Crawford Gallery’s lecture room, which has been closed since March after the partial collapse of a roof light, are due to get under way soon after a €40,000 grant was sanctioned.

French President François Hollande is to visit Ireland later this month, it emerged yesterday.

The Cabinet has agreed to appeal a High Court ruling that a number of buildings on Moore Street be classified as a national monument.

Latest: Outgoing Junior Minister Simon Harris and Meath East TD Regina Doherty look set to be promoted to the senior Cabinet tomorrow by Enda Kenny, writes Daniel Mc Connell.

The number of ministerial trips abroad for the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations have been cut by two thirds this year in the wake of the collapse of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition.

Enda Kenny said he takes responsibility for the appointment of John McNulty — but says he had no role in appointing him to the Irish Museum of Modern Art board.

A case of great minds thinking alike?