Tánaiste Micheál Martin has moved to calm Green Party leader Eamon Ryan's concerns on “budget promises” after he criticised Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for flagging tax cuts and spending rises six months in advance of an expected pre-election giveaway budget.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has criticised the British government, as well as the IRA and Sinn Féin, for what he says are failures in acknowledging their roles in the murders and other crimes committed during the three decades before the ceasefires in Northern Ireland.
Families of some of the 48 victims of the Stardust fire disaster have called for a state apology after the year-long inquest into their deaths in 1981 reached a verdict of unlawful killing.