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Complying with roadside checks by An Garda Síochána, proving educational qualifications, banking transactions and providing proof of age to buy alcohol could all in future be done using a Government smartphone app. Under plans being rolled out by the Department of Public Expenditure (DPER), the digital wallet app, which is based around a person’s PPS […]

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy hosted a lunch to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) in the Members’ Restaurant on Thursday. It was just as well, because the Dáil didn’t seem to notice. On Tuesday, Ruth Coppinger of People Before Profit-Solidarity noted there was no discussion on IWD on the Dáil schedule this week. She thought it […]

What a week. Seven days of relentless Israeli and US bombing, the assassination of the head of state and other potential leaders of Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the suspension of most oil and gas exports from the Gulf, closure of the world’s largest LNG refinery in Qatar, as well as Iran’s […]

Catching up over dinner in an upmarket Brussels restaurant before Christmas, Phil Hogan told a tight-knit group of confidants he was mulling something of a political comeback. Hogan has a tradition of getting together with his old team from his days in the European Commission for a meal every year around December. The group were […]

The European Union appears to be doing better than Britain from the EU-UK “reset” in relations that began last year, according to a report from a Westminster committee. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee criticised the UK government for being too vague about its aims and objectives at the Lancaster House summit in London […]

TikTok’s challenge to the Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) finding that the social media giant breached privacy laws in transferring European users’ personal data to China has opened before the High Court. In April 2025, following a lengthy investigation, the DPC concluded that TikTok breached the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules in sending […]

As many as 2,000 Irish people are actively trying to leave the Gulf region as violence escalates across the Middle East, Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee has said. She has said that between 1,500 to 2,000 Irish citizens have registered or contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs to say they were stranded in the […]

The Government has nominated former European commissioner Phil Hogan as Ireland’s candidate to contest for a senior job at the United Nations. Ministers agreed to back the former Fine Gael politician as Ireland’s pick in the race to take over as the next director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The Department […]

The Government is to discuss a recommendation that Ireland back former European commissioner Phil Hogan in a contest for a senior job at the United Nations. A Cabinet meeting on Tuesday is expected to discuss signing off on a recommendation from an internal department process that Ireland nominate Hogan for the international role. The Department […]

It was not exactly a quiet weekend on the international scene, and military action in Iran, the Middle East and the Gulf looks set to dominate much of the political discourse here over the coming days. The massive wave of US and Israeli attacks on Iran – and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – […]