The Oireachtas Media Committee quizzed RTÉ representatives all afternoon in the first of two sessions planned in response to revelations of hidden payments to Ryan Tubridy. There was light shed on some of the many dark areas surrounding the scandal but not all.
No one likes taxes but everyone wants a larger state. What’s the smallest larger state we’ll need?
The political nervousness around migration for decades has contributed to the increasingly worrying spectre of polarisation and disturbance. 2023 has shown just how divisive the provision of shelter and care to those at risk is in our society.
The start of the kite-flying season includes a proposed Dublin weighting allowance for public servants, which makes less sense than just increasing people’s pay.
The US President's warm visit to Ireland looked a lot like a pre-campaign launch. The Democrats want to make the tax paid by multinationals a voting issue in next year's US election, with huge potential consequences for Ireland's public finances.
The guest list at the Stormont commemoration of the Good Friday Agreement showed that it worked because it brought in republicans. Adams understands it also requires unionist support.
On this Good Friday, there are genuine grounds for hope about “whatever comes after” the 25th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s peace agreement.
As the evictions ban ends today, the Irish and French governments appear to have each picked an issue and decided to lose the next election over it. The consequences will extend beyond political calculations.
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Tommie Gorman travelled to Boston where he spoke to Bertie Ahern about Sinn Féin and heard from successive US envoys to Northern Ireland George Mitchell and Joe Kennedy.
There is more to Sinn Féin’s climate policy than its opposition to the carbon tax or its non-commital stance on the emission cuts needed in agriculture, an in-depth discussion with Lynn Boylan and Darren O’Rourke reveals.
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