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Politics

This month

January 2025

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

13 Jan

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

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13 Jan

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

12 Jan

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Russia claims new villages in eastern Ukraine

12 Jan

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

12 Jan

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

12 Jan

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

11 Jan

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

Stephen McDermott

11 Jan

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

Updated 11 Jan

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

11 Jan

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Nomination of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Tipperary Peace Award has been revoked

10 Jan

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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

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

Updated 10 Jan

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

10 Jan

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

Updated 10 Jan

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

Updated 9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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Venezuelan opposition leader arrested after protest ahead of Maduro inauguration

9 Jan

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Gardaí send file on Moriarty Tribunal to Director of Public Prosecutions

Updated 9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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

Updated 9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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

9 Jan

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Tánaiste says Michael Lowry will not hold a ministerial office

9 Jan

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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

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Biden says he could have defeated Trump but admits he may have been too old for another term

8 Jan

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Are the Healy-Raes credible partners for government formation? Micheál Martin says they are

Micheál Martin says he has had substantive talks with Michael and Danny Healy Rae.

8 Jan

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Ireland has now officially intervened in South Africa's case against Israel in The Hague

8 Jan

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SocDems say only 'small tweaks' are on the table in Government talks as they weigh withdrawing

7 Jan

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Mary Lou McDonald pays tribute to republican ‘patriot’ Ted Howell during funeral service

7 Jan

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France remembers victims of Charlie Hebdo attacks 10 years on

7 Jan

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Online applications for wheelchair-accessible taxi grant closes ‘after just 15 minutes’

7 Jan

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Independent Dublin baristas may get leg up as councillors call out dominance of coffee chains

7 Jan

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Simon Harris says calling Trump an ‘awful gowl’ was lighthearted

7 Jan

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Getting a government up and running by 22 January increasingly viewed as unrealistic

Taoiseach Simon Harris says a government should be in place by the end of the month.

Updated 7 Jan

19.7k

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Open Thread: Who do you want to see running for President this year?

7 Jan

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233

Bank of Ireland to cut interest rates on 12 and 18-month fixed term deposits

Updated 7 Jan

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