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Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice ...

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

Fianna Fáil members are to convene for a special ard fheis this weekend to vote on a draft Programme for Government.

Sinn Fein's Padraig Mac Lochlainn had called for the Dail to be suspended for an urgent meeting of the Business Committee ...

Politics, at its core, is all about survival and few can argue that Micheál Martin is anything other than a survivor.

Plus: Defence Forces spending on Pilates sounds like a bit of a stretch, Michael McGrath discusses European master plan in ...

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

Kerry Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae has said he would like to be the next Minister for Agriculture. It comes as talks to ...

The Dáil failed to nominate a new taoiseach on Wednesday following a row on speaking time. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin ...

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