Despite many believing PR was a fairer and more reflective system of voting, the Northern Ireland prime minister James Craig oversaw its disbandment by the time of the next election to the ...

England cricket great James Anderson has been awarded a knighthood in former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s resignation honors list. According to the British government, Anderson will be ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video reiterating his claim that only a deal like one struck with the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi would work for Iran. It saw Gadhafi ...

The Writers’ Guild of Ireland is “at a loss to understand” the Minister for Media’s lack of support for a mooted content levy on streaming services operating in Ireland, its chair has said.

Plans were advanced under the previous minister for Media, Catherine Martin, to introduce an Irish levy, to be administered by the new Coimisiún na Meán, with at least 75 per cent of funds ...

Before heading off for Easter recess, parliament's most powerful MPs are about to question the prime minister ... Commons breaks for the Easter recess, football fan Sir Keir Starmer faces 90 ...

A claim that 40,000 new homes would be built in 2024 has not damaged trust in the Government, Transport and Environment Minister Darragh O’Brien has said. The former housing minister was among ...

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Earlier, a Fine Gael minister said that Tánaiste Simon Harris is to tell US secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick about the importance of Irish trade to America during their meeting later this week.

The Stormont Executive should be “frank” with people about what has been agreed in the Budget, rather than attempting the “political equivalent of the three-card trick”, Health Minister ...