Barry Lenihan

Political Correspondent

SF alternative budget targets living costs, second homes

Sinn Féin is proposing a permanent ten cent reduction in petrol and diesel as well as extending excise cuts for another six months as part of its €13.4 billion alternative budget package.

Budget 2027 • 22 hrs

10 takeaways as FAI officials face Oireachtas committee

FAI officials appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on Sport for yet another bruising encounter. The controversy around the Nations League games against Israel dominated throughout.

Ireland • 30 Sep

Doctors and nurses walking up a corridor in a hospital with a trolley bed in the foreground

Over 100,000 public sector workers begin work-to-rule

More than 100,000 public sector workers in areas such as health, education and local authorities have begun industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule.

Ireland • 30 Sep

Cabinet to approve plan to overhaul vacant housing scheme

Minister for Housing James Browne is to seek Cabinet approval for an overhaul of a scheme which encourages owners of rundown vacant buildings to lease their properties for social housing.

Ireland • 29 Sep

Boiler scrappage scheme among new expanded energy grants

The Government has approved a significant expansion of home energy grants, including a new additional €2,000 payment to encourage households to scrap fossil fuel heating systems and switch to heat pumps or other renewable heating.

Politics • 30 Sep

Senior Govt figures meet to finalise Budget details

A meeting of Coalition leaders ahead of next week's Budget has concluded at Government Buildings.

Budget 2027 • 28 Sep

Govt to give excise cut 'certainty for winter' - Harris

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said the Government will provide certainty around excise cuts on petrol and diesel for the winter.

Politics • 24 Sep

Seanad bye-election to be announced

Minister for Housing and Local Government James Browne is to confirm a bye-election for the remaining vacancy in the Oireachtas later today.

Politics • 24 Sep

Call for investigation into handling of garda disclosures

The Seanad has heard calls for a full, independent investigation around the handling of protected disclosures within An Garda Síochána.

Ireland • 22 Sep

tractors on o'connell street during protest

Further fuel protests not ruled out, says hauliers group

Further fuel protests cannot be discounted as hauliers are unable to sustain current diesel prices, the president of the Irish Road Haulage Association has said.

Ireland • 22 Sep