Plus: Defence Forces spending on Pilates sounds like a bit of a stretch, Michael McGrath discusses European master plan in Cork and Independent TDs take us back to the past ...

With a new government comes a new raft of new ministers, and since the Green Party has left the field, more positions are up ...

While Fianna Fail has organised a one-off conference to rubber stamp the programme for government, with the vote result to be ...

President Michael D Higgins has rejected calls from the Israeli ambassador to cancel plans to deliver the keynote speech at this year’s National Holocaust Memorial Day. In an interview with the Sunday ...

A number of backbench TDs in both parties are understood to be unhappy with the concessions made to the Independents in government, in terms of the junior and super junior ministries they have managed ...

The incoming Government has said it will launch a review of National Security even though it began the process in December ...

When Micheál Martin is nominated as taoiseach in the Dáil on Wednesday it will be a lot different to the last time, writes ...