Fine Gael senators have warned that the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing will see job losses and floods of shoppers crossing the border if changes are not enacted in the North at the same time.

They must be worried, says Daniel McConnell. The booze companies I mean

While his county colleague Michelle Mulherin is unlikely to be there, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has declared he will be the “first to invade the pitch” if Mayo win the All-Ireland tomorrow.

The Government’s chief whip has admitted there is “mild irritation” among Fine Gael back-benchers over the party’s Seanad appointments deal with Fianna Fáil.

Cabinet is today expected to sign off on the establishment of a new cross-party committee to look at the long-term future of the health system.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been branded as “indecisive” over his delay in appointing his 11 nominees to the Seanad by one of his former junior ministers.

James Reilly, the former children’s minister, is tipped to be among the Taoiseach’s nominees to the Seanad.

Lisa Chambers is part of the new generation of Fianna Fáil politicians who will enter the 32nd Dáil.

Nama was the €72bn missing elephant of the election campaign, writes Political Editor

A new poll shows Fine Gael is on course to retain three of four seats in the Taoiseach's home constituency of Mayo.

In 2011, the ascension of Enda Kenny from opposition leader to Taoiseach and the possibilities this offered his county was for some people in Mayo, home of the Knock shrine, like the second coming of Christ.

After another year of high drama and lower farce, Shaun Connolly looks back at the heroes and villains of the past 12 months in Irish politics

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told party delegates they must not “hand” the economy to “unknown quantities with unknown intentions” who might “wreck” any recovery after he and two other Fine Gael TDs in his constituency were selected unopposed to run in the upcoming general election.

A number of politicians have faced personal and hateful abuse, with the public discourse seeming to revel in and help swell this growing animosity, writes Theresa Reidy 

Swiss investment bank UBS was the big winner in fees paid out last year by Nama, as it received €3.85m from the agency.

The Fine Gael TD entangled in an expenses scandal over 130 calls she made from the Dáil to a Kenyan mobile has paid back a further €1,295 as a direct result of hitting out at how she was identified.

While the behaviour of some politicians attracts derision, President Michael D Higgins deserves respect, writes Shaun Connolly.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny insists he cannot say if a firebomb attack on the constituency office of TD Michelle Mulherin was linked to controversy surrounding a €2,000 phone bill she ran up calling a friend in Kenya from Leinster House.

FINE GAEL’S Mayo TD Michelle Mulherin won her seat by clinging to the coat tails of Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the last election.

TD Clare Daly has defended a protest outside the home of the Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe.

Fine Gael TD Regina Doherty has revealed a man threatened to burn down her house with her children in it.

A man has been questioned and released as part of the investigation into a suspected arson attack on Mayo TD Michelle Mulherin's

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Gardaí are investigating a suspected arson attack on the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin.

Gardaí are investigating a fire at the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin.

Once more reputational damage has been done to whatever remaining integrity the Oireachtas has. 

There's been an arson attack on the constituency office of Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin.

But Mayo representative claims calls to Kenya were work-related

Her views on “fornication” propelled Michelle Mulherin into international headlines. Now, her international phonecalls have left the Mayo TD open to a taxpayer backlash, suggests Shaun Connolly.

Cross party support has continued to flow-in for Health Minister Leo Varadkar after publicly coming out as gay.

The fallout from the property crash has proven to be an even larger bonanza for firms appointed by Nama as receivers this year.

Living next to a pylon is “completely safe” and putting high-voltage lines underground would add some €2bn to the cost of upgrading the electricity network, it has been claimed.

Sexism is “alive and well” in the Dáil, according to female parliamentarians, who said the “macho” and “laddish” culture must change if more women are to enter politics.

THIS column might never reach your eyes. Ireland will surely have fallen off its axis, now that the X case legislation has passed the Dáil.

The Fine Gael revolt over legislation allowing abortion in certain circumstances is expected to be limited to just five TDs.