At least 100 current Oireachtas members have received in excess of half a million euro in pay, expenses and allowances since the current Government came to power in March 2011.

Expenses to TDs have cost €24.4m since the last General Election.

Anti-establishment are now well placed to translate strong national support into major gains at the next general election, while Government parties face losses, says Adrian Kavanagh

GAA president Liam O’Neill is convinced people will have a deeper understanding of the Sky Sports media rights deal after yesterday’s Oireachtas committee on transport and communications debate.

Coalition leaders have warned defiant Oireachtas members not to campaign against the abolition of the Seanad ahead of a referendum later this year.

A middle-aged man with no health insurance who was worried about the treatment of his chronic back pain resorted to dealing drugs to pay for medical care.

The country’s three largest sporting bodies all said that a proposal to ban sponsorship of major sporting events by drinks firms would have a devastating impact on the funding of their respective sports, especially at club and community level.

Protestant schools are unlikely to get a waiver from future budget cuts to the fee-paying sector on foot of Department of Education analysis of their funding.

Orders of nuns involved in the operation of the Magdalene Laundries have been urged by TDs to make a contribution to a survivors’ compensation fund.

Giving TDs and Senators free hand-held tablet devices such as iPads will save the taxpayer money, Oireachtas officials claim.

Security at the controversial weekend concert in Dublin’s Phoenix Park may have been more focused on driving up the promoters’ profits than protecting those who attended, Alan Shatter has said.

Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has suggested that dance acts may no longer be allowed to play in Dublin’s Phoenix Park after revealing she knows one of the people stabbed at last weekend’s controversial event.

A Government TD has today called for the arrest of concert promoters MCD.

I find the debacle over TDs’ expenses frustrating considering the excessive wages they already earn.

The conduct of tax-evading TD Mick Wallace is to be probed by a Dáil committee with powers to refer the matter to the DPP.

Minister for State at the Department of Finance Brian Hayes has defended the expense claims of TDs, saying politics is not a cheap business.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).

PEOPLE with mental illnesses who are not improving are being “contained” with medication in mental health facilities which do not provide them with any solution for their condition, mental health lawyers have warned.