#fianna-fail

#fianna-fail

Anything to say about transgenderism?," Ms Burke says repeatedly. Ms Burke claims her son, Enoch has been in prison for two years "because he won't promote transgenderism". Mr Burke is currently in prison for contempt of court after repeatedly defying High Court orders to stay away from the grounds of his former workplace, Wilson's Hospital.

Ms Keogan, who is also a former member of Meath Fianna Fáil organisation, claimed many of its grassroots members were "let down repeatedly" by a leadership that now governed a party which was at grave risk of losing its own identity. The former Meath county councillor cited how a party that returned with the largest seat haul in the aftermath of the 2024 general election had effectively lost direction and purpose to govern a country in dire need of ambition and direction.

During the 2007 general election, when Bertie Ahern was on a roll as taoiseach, he was still looking after his home turf, out pounding the pavements in Drumcondra. When he knocked on the door of one voter, he found a former friendly face who was extremely angry after losing a certain social welfare benefit because he had taken on a couple of hours' ­extra work.

Michael Cahill was caught driving at 190kmh, overtaking a stream of traffic and getting aggressively close to a van to force it to change lanes.

The United States is taking a break from political seriousness.

There has been outcry nationally over changes to schools' allocations of special needs assistants Such was the level of anger within Fianna Fáil over the handling of the review into special needs assistant (SNA) allocations that an emergency briefing with junior minister Michael Moynihan was organised for Wednesday night.

'It is just that things went against me on the day' says TD Michael Cahill, who was driving at 190kmh

With 10 days to go before Christmas, Dublin was buzzing with shoppers, party-goers and those anticipating their annual catch ups.

On this episode, Tabitha Monahan and Cónal Thomas from the Irish Independent political team break down the Government's new housing policy that strangely has no annual targets. Can it finally solve the crisis or is it set to fail? As Fianna Fáil's presidential fiasco shows no sign of going away, is it in danger of becoming a "perma-crisis" for Taoiseach Micheál Martin?

Fianna Fáil is facing a "demographic cliff edge" and isn't "even trying" to attract younger voters, according to the Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher.