Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil believe the need for emergency laws and a crisis budget to respond to Covid-19 must be assured by a coalition deal and a new government.

Ministers travelling abroad as part of scaled back St Patrick’s Day visits this year have been banned from flying first class, hiring limousines, or using hotel suites.

Susan McGovern has sued the the Irish Prison Service, the Minister for Justice, Ireland and the Attorney General and the Governor of Limerick Prison.

An attorney general in the US is to challenge a court ruling allowing a father and daughter convicted of the murder of an Irishman a retrial.

Labour Party TD Alan Kelly, has demanded that Minister Eoghan Murphy take immediate decisive action on whether the election will take place in Tipperary this weekend.

Eamonn MJ Coffey, counsel for Garda Golden’s widow, Nicola, and the couple’s three young children, told Mr Justice Michael Twomey in the High Court today that a mediator had been agreed

If laws cannot be introduced to cap injury awards, the Government will hold a referendum to bring about the change, the minister in charge of insurance reform has warned.

There is nothing even remotely unconstitutional about the house’s decision to impeach Donald Trump, writes Noah Feldman.

Latest: Senator Michael McDowell has accused the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross of “misleading the public” with the Judicial Appointments Bill.

Deputies Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny and Paul Murphy claim a Bill seeking to link exploration licences with meeting carbon reduction targets has been “strangled” by the Ceann Comhairle.

Legal threats from coal firms have stopped the Government from introducing a nationwide ban on smoky coal which environmental activists and opposition parties are demanding.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on fraud, breach of trust and bribery.

A stormy meeting on the controversial Public Services Card this morning saw Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty say her department would take their objection to accusations of illegality levelled at the card “as far as it takes to vindicate our position”.

A court hearing between the Department of Education and the Co-Tyrone based company that constructed a series of schools discovered to have fire and structural problems is to take place next month.

“I’m advised that we are operating within the law, I believe we are operating within the law.”

The brother of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney has told of his horror and anger at hearing details of the assault as revealed in a BBC interview on Tuesday night.

Their concerns arise after the Department of Justice “rejected” terms proposed by the judge conducting the inquiry.

A High Court challenge has been brought over Cork City Council's decision to approve €6m road upgrade to help open the City's docklands for more development.

Senator Michael McDowell has described the arson attack on a car outside the house of Sinn Féin TD for Sligo-Leitrim Martin Kenny as “disgusting and anti democratic.”

The scandal over a phone call between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky also involves a large cast of secondary players, writes Andy Sullivan.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has denied he received any advice from the Attorney General before deciding to pull the Public Services Card (PSC) as a requirement for getting a driving licence, despite saying the opposite on the Dáil record last year.

When a loved one dies, we may sometimes talk about getting “closure”, an overused term that nonetheless expresses the importance of leaving grief behind in order to aid the healing process.

A frail 82-year-old woman Bridget McDermott balanced her walking stick in her hand with the heavy wooden frame bearing the photographs of the three children she lost in the Stardust fire.

Mounting the new inquest into the fatalities in the Stardust fire will require special resources as it is going to be the biggest inquest ever in this country, the solicitor representing the families of the 48 victims has said.

The families and survivors of the 1981 Stardust fire in Dublin have received confirmation from the Attorney General that he will grant a new inquest into the blaze that killed 48 people.

Boris Johnson claimed the “paralysed” Parliament will keep “sabotaging” Brexit negotiations as he addressed the Commons.

The Stardust Victims Committee has called on the Attorney General to honour his promise to deliver a decision regarding a possible new inquest into the disaster today/tomorrow (Sep 25th).