While some of the reaction was negative towards the Fine Gael leader, at least half of the correspondence sent to the ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris received a barrage of emails after a viral incident where he was confronted by a carer in Kanturk ...

MICHAEL Healy-Rae celebrated his appointment as Minister by thumping the air outside Government buildings as Taoiseach ...

The Irish Government has appointed 19 Ministers of State - or 'Junior Ministers' - in addition to last week's four 'Super Junior Ministers.' ...

Research & Development Thomas Byrne TD Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs and at the ...

However, the government chief whip is a minister of state at the Department of the Taoiseach and does attend cabinet meetings. The current Chief Whip is Hildegarde Naughton and her role is to set ...

Some ministers of state are de facto department heads via being given 'special responsibility' by the Taoiseach. For example, in the last government, Colm Burke was a Minister of State at the ...

The Department of the Taoiseach at first said no records of the podcast existed and the outline of questions was only released following a request for internal review. In the ‘personal ...

It is understood that a deal is close and it will see the Regional Independents classed as government TDs going forward.