Tánaiste Micheál Martin has ruled out reappointing Mairead McGuinness as Ireland’s EU Commissioner, insisting the position is Fianna Fáil’s to fill next summer.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said he will raise the international criminal probe into the Kinahan Cartel and the global drug trade when he visits Colombia and Mexico in the new year.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government may tighten rules around the use of student accommodation and nursing homes as housing for refugees and asylum-seekers amid concerns about the potential response of local communities.
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have rounded on Elon Musk’s X social media site, with Leo Varadkar labelling the online platform formerly known as Twitter as a “sewer”, amid mounting concern that it is allowing abusive and hateful accounts to remain active.