The Government has been accused of climate change "tokenism" over its planned carbon tax rises amid ministerial warnings the opposition is making "lazy" claims environmental changes can take place "without any costs".

Green Party leader John Gormley today said he expects Enda Kenny to continue as leader of Fine Gael saying Deputy Kenny has come out fighting.

Fine Gael deputy leader Richard Bruton is expected to decide today whether he'll try and oust Enda Kenny as party head.

I WAS aghast to read so much anti-Fine Gael rhetoric in recent times about possible further EU scrutiny of the Irish budgetary process and taxation policies.

Fine Gael’s Jim Mitchell and Michael Noonan will throw down a challenge to the leadership of John Bruton at a Dublin news conference this afternoon.