Politics

This month

March 2025

trade wars

Trump imposes tariffs on Canada and Mexico while doubling levy on Chinese imports

Updated 4 Mar

15.8k

It goes on and on and on

Oireachtas committees won't be running properly until after Easter due to speaking rights row

4 Mar

4.5k

War in Ukraine

US suspends military aid for Ukraine, days after Oval Office blowup between Trump and Zelenskyy

A White House official said Trump is focused on reaching a peace deal.

Updated 4 Mar

53.9k

Cabinet

Bill to extend eligibility for widows and widowers’ pensions to cohabitants to be brought to Cabinet

4 Mar

11.5k

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triple lock

Simon Harris wants to remove the 'Triple Lock' - but what is it and what could replace it?

3 Mar

14.7k

Paddy's Day visit

Michelle O’Neill says White House visit ‘different’ for Taoiseach as he gets ‘one-on-one time’

3 Mar

9.1k

Francesca Albanese

'So un-Irish': UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine criticises government's approach to Israel

3 Mar

19.2k

no other land

'There is another way': Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers win Oscar for West Bank documentary

Updated 3 Mar

11.9k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Anora dominates the Oscars, Israel accused of starving Gazans again and Gene Hackman remembered…

Updated 3 Mar

5.1k

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leaders summit

King Charles meets Zelenskyy following defence summit on Ukraine in London

The UK has signed a £1.6 billion deal to supply more than 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine using export finance.

Updated 2 Mar

27.1k

157

United Nations

Proposal to remove UN approval from 'Triple Lock' to be brought to Cabinet this week

Updated 2 Mar

24.0k

237

regional independents

Opposition will 'do absolutely everything' to reject government's speaking rights proposal

2 Mar

7.4k

Special Education

Minister gives assurance that special school places will be made available to students in need

2 Mar

8.7k

leaders summit

UK and France working on deal for 'lasting peace' in Ukraine - Starmer

Updated 2 Mar

16.2k

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PodcastThe Candidate

Ireland gets DOGE-curious after x-ray scanner 'fury'

Did it really spark ‘fury’? If it didn’t, have we become numb to this type of wasted cash — or it this simply not that big of a deal? On this week’s episode, Christine Bohan, Jane Matthews, Rónán Duffy, and Sinéad O’Carroll examine the latest spending controversy.

30m

Here's why Ireland’s stock exchange has finally surpassed its 2007 Celtic Tiger all-time high

Paul O'Donoghue

2 Mar

14.5k

United Kingdom

Starmer insists Ukraine has ‘full backing of UK’ as he meets Zelenskyy at No 10

1 Mar

24.3k

221

lengthy statement

Zelenskyy: Ukraine 'ready' to sign minerals-sharing deal, but needs 'clear' security guarantees

Updated 1 Mar

33.9k

Deportations

Doras say focus on deportations is a ‘distraction’ from the need for law reform

1 Mar

8.7k

Cork City

Water workers to demand services remain in public ownership during protest in Cork today

1 Mar

11.9k

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Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Serious fatal crash in Donegal, Pope ‘resting’ in Rome and Zelenskyy-Trump relationship ‘can be salvaged’.

1 Mar

5.3k

Ukraine War

Zelenskyy tells Fox News relationship with Trump can still be salvaged

Updated 1 Mar

37.4k

defence minister

Any role for Irish troops in Ukraine would be about 'peacekeeping, not peace enforcement'

Updated 1 Mar

6.1k

The Morning Lead

Who are the 32 politicians in the Dáil who declared themselves as landlords last year?

Stephen McDermott

1 Mar

41.8k

Last month

February 2025

Oval Office

Zelenskyy leaves White House summit after Trump claims he's 'not ready for peace'

It means a peace deal on the Ukraine-Russia war is hanging in the balance.

Updated 28 Feb

103k

577

Micheál Martin

White House scenes 'extraordinary and very unsettling', Taoiseach tells Late Late

28 Feb

54.2k

taking sides

Zelenskyy thanks European leaders one by one for their support after messy Trump meeting

Updated 28 Feb

44.8k

Fighter Planes

Simon Harris is 'convinced' that Ireland needs its own squadron of fighter jets

Ireland does not have its own capability to police its airspace and does not have any fighter jets to respond to airborne threats.

Niall O'Connor

Reports from The Curragh Camp

28 Feb

46.1k

204

The Donald's English

Donald Trump to order that English be the official language of US for first time in its history

28 Feb

23.1k

Keir Stormer

UK media praise Starmer for pulling out ‘Trump card’ at yesterday’s White House meeting

28 Feb

18.8k

deportation flights

32 people deported to Georgia as special chartered flights from Ireland begin

Updated 28 Feb

52.7k

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Zelenskyy to meet Trump, deportation flight lands in Georgia and Taoiseach’s St. Patrick’s Day plans confirmed

Updated 28 Feb

3.7k

washington bound

Taoiseach accepts invitation to visit White House for annual St Patrick's Day meeting

28 Feb

23.9k

199

White House

Zelenskyy and Trump to sign minerals deal at White House today

28 Feb

6.9k

Washington

Starmer says Ukraine deal 'can't be a peace that rewards the aggressor' during Trump visit

Updated 27 Feb

12.4k

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 Taoiseach meets with Zelenskyy, Starmer visits the White House and Gene Hackman dies aged 95

27 Feb

4.0k

strike action

SIPTU members in Section 39 organisations vote in favour of strike action over pay dispute

Updated 27 Feb

12.1k

Gaza

Israeli army acknowledges 'complete failure' on 7 October after internal investigation

27 Feb

6.6k

Gemelli hospital

Pope Francis's 'clinical conditions confirmed to be improving', says Vatican

Updated 27 Feb

7.5k

shannon stopover

Taoiseach meets Ukraine's Zelenskyy at Shannon on stopover to visit Trump

Zelenskyy is travelling from Shannon Airport to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump.

Updated 27 Feb

38.9k

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