The decision to re-open Stepaside Garda Station has been branded “Del Boy politics” by a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has criticised the move.

The pending reopening of Stepaside Garda station will be strongly criticised by the Dáil’s spending watchdog, despite two Cabinet ministers demanding its return.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald faces mounting pressure from her Fine Gael ministerial colleagues after fresh information around her knowledge of the Maurice McCabe scandal emerged.

Irish Water needs €5.5bn up to 2021 and that is only to start, but the funds now will have to come from the same purse as health and education, writes Gerard Howlin

John Halligan, in detail, set out how he and other members of the group met Leo Varadkar and how at that meeting the then-Taoiseach elect said he would get certain issues "over the line" for the Alliance.

The Taoiseach claims there is a lack of female TDs, hence so few at his Cabinet table. The Women for Election group is looking to ensure the only way is up for female representation, writes Niamh Hennessy.

The Dáil is set to gain two more TDs from the next election as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is a major winner in the redraw of constituency boundaries announced tonight, writes Daniel McConnell.

You cannot purport to be a modern leader, like Macron, and not prioritise women at cabinet, writes Alison O’Connor

The Government has come under fire from opposition for appointing Máire Whelan to the appeals court during the final Cabinet meeting under Enda Kenny’s leadership.

Former Attorney General Máire Whelan remained at the Cabinet table as ministers discussed her appointment to the Court of Appeal, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Independent Alliance Minister Shane Ross has been criticised after the reopening of Stepaside Garda Station was announced.

They were all singing for their supper, but now the meals are coming who will be left hungry? Fiachra Ó Cionnaith assesses the likely winners and losers in incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s new cabinet.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney has opened an early lead on his main rival Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar in the race to succeed Enda Kenny as Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach.

This week, the Irish Examiner Political Team — Juno McEnroe, Fiachra O Cionnaith, Elaine Loughlin, and Daniel McConnell — have endeavoured to pin down where support within the 73 members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party is likely to go once votes are cast.

At least one extra Dáil seat will be up for grabs in the next general election as the growth in population has pushed the number of people per TD over the 30,000 legal threshold.

The argument that Garda stations had been a deterrent to crime when they were in operation does not stand up, writes Micheal Clifford

A record number of women will form part of the new Dáil as gender quotas put more females on the ballot papers.

Fine Gael’s senior party figures look set to go into ‘bunker’ mode and shy away from any blame game yet as the outgoing coalition as the party dissects the drubbing it received from Irish voters in the election.

Dozens of previously high-profile politicians are waking up to the reality today that they are no longer TDs after a second successive general election saw a seismic shift in the Dáil landscape.

Green Party Deputy Leader, Catherine Martin, is to run in the Dublin Rathdown constituency in the General Election.

Labour faces pressure to overhaul the property tax for the less well-off after delegates at the party’s conference voted to remove the charge from those on the dole and those struggling with mortgages.

Dublin sees some of the most far-reaching changes of the shake-up which will provide re-election headaches for many sitting TDs.

Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell has described the changes to constituency boundaries as a "butchering".

The Constituency Commission has recommended cutting the number of TDs in Leinster House by eight - from 166 to 158.