Politics

Last week

12th January 2025 - 18th January 2025

Trinity College

Climate change and culture wars take centre stage at first Trinity Seanad hustings

14 Jan

6.3k

seat at the table

White smoke: Regional Independents secure four government roles as deal emerges

Fianna Fáil is to hold a special Ard Fheis in Dublin on Sunday to ratify the new programme for government.

Updated 14 Jan

53.1k

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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

14 Jan

4.9k

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o'connell st

GPO ‘totally unsuitable’ for use as a soup kitchen says An Post, amid calls to open its doors

Updated 14 Jan

18.4k

Tulip Siddiq

UK Treasury minister resigns after ethics investigation despite being cleared of wrongdoing

14 Jan

10.7k

Peace Deal

Potentially 'hundreds' of Palestinian prisoners set to be freed as as Gaza ceasefire deal in 'final stages'

Updated 14 Jan

8.9k

Trump's picks

Defence secretary hopeful Pete Hegseth wants to 'restore warrior ethos' to US military

14 Jan

7.6k

Donald Trump

Trump would have been convicted if he wasn't elected, US special counsel finds

14 Jan

9.1k

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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

13 Jan

9.6k

ceasefire deal

US President Joe Biden says Gaza peace negotiators are 'pressing hard' to secure deal

It comes as the White House confirmed reports that a ceasefire deal could be finalised soon.

Updated 13 Jan

15.3k

Homelessness

Dublin's Lord Mayor to meet with soup kitchen organisers as council considers new regulations

13 Jan

9.5k

Ah Keir

Just six months after the UK election, Labour's Chancellor and another minister are in trouble

13 Jan

15.2k

nearly there now

Government formation negotiations in race to finish line as talks continue today

13 Jan

10.7k

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Democracy

Life in a dictatorship: Why do Belarusian journalists risk their lives for the truth?

Sasha Romanova

13 Jan

6.5k

exporting abortion

Your Stories: Have you had to travel abroad to access abortion services?

12 Jan

17.6k

Donetsk

Russia claims new villages in eastern Ukraine

12 Jan

9.3k

Palestine

Netanyahu updates Biden on 'progress' in Gaza hostage deal talks

12 Jan

6.0k

man on the outside

O'Gorman says comment about being a 'bollocks' to new government was 'tongue in cheek'

12 Jan

24.2k

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This month

January 2025

Munster

Family farms and 'land squeezes': Irish farmers tracking a 'wave' of purchases by wealthy buyers

11 Jan

40.9k

Analysis

Meta's scrapping of fact-checking in the US has emboldened disinformers; now the EU is on alert

Stephen McDermott

11 Jan

8.3k

trying to rebuild

O'Gorman hits out at incoming government, says Green Party has 'good reason to be optimistic'

Updated 11 Jan

16.3k

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government formation

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael defend Lowry negotiations, but say he's unlikely to be a minister

11 Jan

12.8k

Tipperary Peace Convention

Nomination of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Tipperary Peace Award has been revoked

10 Jan

30.2k

Crunch time

Regional Independents agree to begin 'intensive' government negotiations with FF and FG

It is expected that the Independent TDs will have individual constituency asks along with national policy ideas.

10 Jan

12.3k

ferry services

Taoiseach welcomes partial reopening of Holyhead next week after talks with Welsh First Minister

Updated 10 Jan

12.7k

Podcast The Explainer

Elon Musk and accusations of political interference — what’s going on?

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FactCheck

FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?

10 Jan

11.0k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Death toll rises in LA fires, government formation talks step up and cold snap end in sight.

Updated 10 Jan

4.5k

government formation

'Acorn' savings, infrastructure and cannabis - party leaders meeting daily to bash out compromises

Updated 9 Jan

15.2k

New phase

Lebanon army chief Joseph Aoun becomes president after two-year vacuum

9 Jan

6.0k

caracas

Venezuelan opposition leader arrested after protest ahead of Maduro inauguration

9 Jan

7.7k

Moriarty Tribunal

Gardaí send file on Moriarty Tribunal to Director of Public Prosecutions

Updated 9 Jan

24.7k

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'Unfair' to claim new government won't implement changes to abortion law, Harris and Martin say

9 Jan

7.4k

final journey

All five living US presidents gather for Jimmy Carter's state funeral in Washington

Updated 9 Jan

27.0k

Sorcha Eastwood

Alliance MP says she received rape threat during school visit she led at Stormont

9 Jan

16.9k

Manhattan

New York’s highest appeals court declines to block Trump’s sentencing in hush money case

9 Jan

8.3k

RMT

UK rail union chief Mick Lynch, who sparred with Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley, announces retirement

9 Jan

10.9k

keeping an eye on it

Kremlin says it's watching Trump's pursuit of Greenland 'very closely'

9 Jan

9.7k

government formation talks

Tánaiste says Michael Lowry will not hold a ministerial office

9 Jan

10.5k

The Morning Lead

Split views over whether to move 'hugely important' Energy brief to Dept of Enterprise

Meanwhile Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael look likely to swap the Health and Justice ministries.

Christina Finn

9 Jan

9.3k