Minister for Transport Shane Ross has accused “legal insiders” in the Oireachtas of filibustering in an attempt to delay the Judicial Appointments Bill.

What Irish agri-food product might be hit hardest by a no-deal Brexit?

The wimmin’ are gone entirely mad. Losing the run of themselves. Nothing will ever satisfy them now. 

Abortion legislation is now unlikely to enter the Dáil before the summer because of ongoing court challenges to the referendum result.

Four investigators are being hired by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) to take on a surge in whistleblower complaints from members of the force.

Oireachtas na Samhna will draw thousands of people to Co Kerry this weekend for the Gaelic social event of the year, writes Pet O’Connell.

The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has responded to claims that the Government is trying to downplay the scale of the homeless crisis.

This Rugby World Cup bid, you know it’s going to happen, right? 

The relationships and sexuality education (RSE) programme in schools has played a key role in the 64% reduction in teen births over the past 15 years, the HSE has said.

IF SEÁN Ó Liatháin has taken a lifetime to get around to recording his debut CD, he has ample excuse, writes Pet O’Connell.

Supervised injecting centres do not have a ‘honeypot effect’ in attracting drug users, according to the report of a drug policy summit.

An economic think-tank has urged the Government to ditch its ‘Rebuilding Ireland’ plan in favour of a new housing model centred on a commercial semi-state utility system.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has found 173 items from the State’s art collection have been identified as missing — including 44 from the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Judges will be obliged under new laws to hand down consecutive sentences in multiple burglary cases and be allowed to refuse bail in certain situations.

A lobby group representing Ireland’s restaurants has urged the Government to resist calls to increase the minimum wage.

Junior employment minister Ged Nash has admitted there “may well” be an expectation among those earning the minimum wage that it should be increased, but employers are warning any rise will hit competitiveness and cost jobs.

Two new ‘super’ Garda units are being set up — one to target organised gangs and another to tackle child abuse, domestic and sexual violence, and human exploitation.

Appearing before the banking inquiry this week, the expert who coined the term ‘zombie banks’ was full of ideas, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Electronic cigarettes would be banned from bars, restaurants and workplaces and made illegal for under-18s, under proposed new laws in Ireland.

There have been moves of late to loosen the party whip to allowing politicians vote freely on matters of conscience.

The Government’s high-profile investigation into the mother-and-baby homes scandal will have an “extremely broad scope” and may involve “interim reports during its lifetime”.

Emergency moves to bring in rent controls and increase allowances are needed to head-off a surge in homelessness, the Dáil heard.

It started off as the by-election the Coalition could not lose and ended-up as the bye-bye election for the Government’s majority in the Seanad.

If exasperated headmaster Enda Kenny thought expelling Blueshirt bad girl Lucinda Creighton to reform school was going to make her change her ways, he was very much mistaken.

Establishing an entity intended to be as transformative as Irish Water was always going to be expensive.

The HSE Service Plan for 2014 will be delivered to the Minister for Health today.

A massive Garda presence around the Dáil dwarfed those protesting against the seventh successive austerity budget.

Campaigners have welcomed a unanimous call by an Oireachtas committee for the buyers of sex — but not the sellers — to be criminalised.

Just when we thought Shattergate had run out of puff, dramatic admissions forced from the justice minister saw questions about his suitability for high office splutter back to life.

In relation to reports that Catholic politicians who vote for the legalising of abortions in Ireland may face excommunication from the Catholic Church, I would like to point out that Fine Gael has threatened to definitely “excommunicate” from the parliamentary party any TDs or Senators who oppose this abortion legislation, despite the fact that in doing so, these elected representatives would be defending human life, and honouring Fine Gael’s general election promise not to introduce abortion legislation.

A key health pledge by the Coalition to provide free GP care for all by the next election will not be met, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has signalled.

Fiona McMahon, who suffers from epilepsy, says inadvertently switching to a generic medication earlier this year could have cost her life.

A row has erupted over a series of hearings on abortion legislation to be held by the Oireachtas next week.

The troubled Government action plan on alcohol will go to Cabinet in the coming weeks — but it is not clear when policies to end alcohol sports’ sponsorship and introduce minimum pricing will actually be implemented.

Parents of children who developed a chronic sleep disorder after receiving the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine have criticised government delays in putting a framework in place to support their children’s needs.

The Government has broken with electoral tradition and will hold the long-awaited children’s rights referendum on Saturday November 10, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

Yesterday’s address by Orange Order Grand secretary Drew Nelson to the Oireachtas was a welcome and significant moment in the evolution of an Ireland at peace with all of its traditions, old and new.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams have again clashed over the fiscal treaty referendum.

The Personal Insolvency Bill unveiled yesterday by Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is designed to reform the country’s outdated bankruptcy laws.

THE possibility of the British prime minister taking part in events to mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising is expected to be raised when the Taoiseach visits Downing Street today.