Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have rejected suggestions that the Coalition leaders have failed when it comes to ensuring gender ...

The arrangements underpinning the support of the Regional Independent Group (RIG) and the Healy-Raes for the incoming Fianna ...

To my understanding nothing has changed except for the need for additional votes." Healy-Raes to meet FF, FG teams amid govt formation talks A number of meetings are under way with a view to ...

The guaranteed salary of the Ministers of State will be €159,525, rising to €172,670 for Super Junior Ministers who attend ...

Last week’s chaotic scenes demonstrated that there is an opportunity for Opposition parties to come together and win public ...

Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former ...

She has overtaken FG leader Simon Harris in the second spot for the first time since he became leader of his party. Simon Harris’s approval rating has fallen by seven points to 45pc The poll has ...

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, in how they assembled their government of choice, are behaving as if they don’t give two ...

AN agreement has been reached between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Independent TDs with a five-year plan for the country. A new programme for government is set to be put to the parliamentary parties ...

POLITICAL parties are still grinding out an agreement on the formation of a new Government, with the return of the Dail just 10 days away. Party figures in Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are hoping to ...

Because, yeah, no, as Ross O’Carroll Kelly might say, last Thursday's appointment of the Cabinet was a giant disappointment.