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.

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 ...

AN agreement has been reached between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Independent TDs with a five-year plan for the country. A new ...

The programme was published on Wednesday as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael held parliamentary party meetings to sign off on the ...

The draft programme for Government was published following agreement by negotiating teams from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and ...