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Politics

Yesterday
14th January 2025
Climate change and culture wars take centre stage at first Trinity Seanad hustings
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.
Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday
GPO ‘totally unsuitable’ for use as a soup kitchen says An Post, amid calls to open its doors
UK Treasury minister resigns after ethics investigation despite being cleared of wrongdoing
Potentially 'hundreds' of Palestinian prisoners set to be freed as as Gaza ceasefire deal in 'final stages'
Defence secretary hopeful Pete Hegseth wants to 'restore warrior ethos' to US military
Trump would have been convicted if he wasn't elected, US special counsel finds
Monday
13th January 2025
Here's What Happened Today: Monday
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.
Dublin's Lord Mayor to meet with soup kitchen organisers as council considers new regulations
Just six months after the UK election, Labour's Chancellor and another minister are in trouble
Government formation negotiations in race to finish line as talks continue today
Life in a dictatorship: Why do Belarusian journalists risk their lives for the truth?
Sasha Romanova
This week
12th January 2025 - 15th January 2025
Your Stories: Have you had to travel abroad to access abortion services?
Russia claims new villages in eastern Ukraine
Netanyahu updates Biden on 'progress' in Gaza hostage deal talks
O'Gorman says comment about being a 'bollocks' to new government was 'tongue in cheek'
Last week
5th January 2025 - 11th January 2025
Family farms and 'land squeezes': Irish farmers tracking a 'wave' of purchases by wealthy buyers
Meta's scrapping of fact-checking in the US has emboldened disinformers; now the EU is on alert
O'Gorman hits out at incoming government, says Green Party has 'good reason to be optimistic'
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael defend Lowry negotiations, but say he's unlikely to be a minister
Nomination of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Tipperary Peace Award has been revoked
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.
Taoiseach welcomes partial reopening of Holyhead next week after talks with Welsh First Minister
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FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?
'Acorn' savings, infrastructure and cannabis - party leaders meeting daily to bash out compromises
Lebanon army chief Joseph Aoun becomes president after two-year vacuum
Venezuelan opposition leader arrested after protest ahead of Maduro inauguration
Gardaí send file on Moriarty Tribunal to Director of Public Prosecutions
'Unfair' to claim new government won't implement changes to abortion law, Harris and Martin say
All five living US presidents gather for Jimmy Carter's state funeral in Washington
Alliance MP says she received rape threat during school visit she led at Stormont
New York’s highest appeals court declines to block Trump’s sentencing in hush money case
UK rail union chief Mick Lynch, who sparred with Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley, announces retirement
Kremlin says it's watching Trump's pursuit of Greenland 'very closely'
Tánaiste says Michael Lowry will not hold a ministerial office
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.