The Greens pushed Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in a direction that was uncomfortable for the bigger parties but they went along with it because they are supreme pragmatists and they needed the Greens.

John Manley has spent the vast bulk of his 25 year-plus journalistic career with The Irish News. He has been the paper's ...

While Ministers and Government spokespeople insisted there were no special constituency deals agreed and the programme included wide-ranging pledges on health, childcare and housing, Independent TDs ...

The draft programme for government will be debated by members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the coming days.

Senior politicians from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the help of the Regional Independents Group, have spent weeks ...

Rural Independent TDs have signed up to continuous annual increases in carbon taxes despite heavily criticising the measure ...

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Smaller class sizes, cheaper childcare, and no change to pension age are among the measures agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, ...

The previous commitment to a referendum on voting rights for Irish citizens abroad is not mentioned in the new draft programme for Government.

The Programme for Government is long on priorities, but contains no costings, as Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Regional ...

Ireland's two major centre-right parties finalised a coalition deal with independent lawmakers on Wednesday that will return ...

The leader of Ireland's Fianna Fail party Micheal Martin is set to return to the role of prime minister next week, according ...