The development follows a months-long row over speaking time which has hindered legislative work and has prevented ...

"YOU'RE making an absolute holy show of yourselves," Verona Murphy told Deputies during chaotic scenes over speaking rights in the Dáil.

The opposition parties have been fighting Government proposals to introduce a new slot called Other Members’ Questions. This ...

Almost all Opposition TDs walked out of the Dáil chamber as Independent TD Carol Nolan raised the first leaders’ question for ...

THE Dáil speaking rights row is officially over after the first slot of questions from "Others" to the Government.

"In effect, what I have experienced in the past four months has been nothing other than an attempt to bully and harassment by ...

The Opposition have behaved in a “juvenile and despicable” manner, according to an Independent TD at the centre of a dispute on speaking rights. Michael Lowry acted as a key negotiator for a bloc of ...

Both the Government and opposition parties have stressed the need for the resumption of the work of the committees amid the ...

The Government has won a vote of ­confidence in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy, with Ms Murphy saying she bears no “ill will” ...

INDEPENDENT TD Barry Heneghan has moved his seat away from Michael Lowry over “behaviour” of people inside and outside the ...

The Motion of Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle plus vote is expected to begin at 3.55pm with vote at about 6.30pm. Harry McGee writes: The Government expects the motion of confidence in Ceann ...

Her perceived ineptitude was perhaps part of the reason why the coalition leaders shied away from providing a full-throated support of the Ceann Comhairle ...