The row was resolved after Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy weighed in – in favour of the opposition – on Monday night.

The row, which derailed Micheál Martin's election as Taoiseach on January 22, has been bubbling away for weeks and reached a ...

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has ruled that the Regional Independents supporting Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in government ...

The Dáil speaking rights row is the big issue in Irish politics right now and neither side is backing down. Nine Independent ...

THE Dail speaking rights row is not a “black and white issue”, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said. A mass walkout of TDs could ...

Independent Ireland have hit out at Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath, claiming he has been misrepresenting the truth about being ...

Independent TD Michael Lowry has ruled out an Opposition demand that his technical group be excluded from the Dáil's Leaders' Questions slot.

It is time to turbocharge all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement. The scourge of intolerance has spread from being just ...

The leaders of the Dáil's political parties and groupings look set to meet with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris on Tuesday to try to agree on a compromise on the speaking rights row ...

Opposition parties have written to the Taoiseach to criticise ‘preposterous’ proposals to resolve a row over how speaking ...

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard.

Waterford TD John Cummins has been appointed Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage as Taoiseach Michael Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris announced the junior ...