Mary Butler (58) has been appointed Government Chief Whip and Super Junior Minister.

The new ministers of state have been announced after a Cabinet meeting this afternoon. The appointment of the 23 ministers of ...

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have rejected suggestions that the Coalition leaders have failed when it comes to ensuring gender ...

The guaranteed salary of the Ministers of State will be €159,525, rising to €172,670 for Super Junior Ministers who attend ...

No senior Minster and Taoiseach Micheál Martin drops Seán Fleming as junior minister with Offaly also out in the cold ...

Jerry Buttimer expected to be appointed Minister of State with Robert Troy also to make a ministerial comeback ...

Last week’s chaotic scenes demonstrated that there is an opportunity for Opposition parties to come together and win public ...

The Laois TD was one of the highest profile TDs in the last Dáil as he was the Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee ...

Women have been forgotten about in the formation of a new Government which had as its first action to 'create more jobs for ...

A ‘gentleman’s agreement’ brokered by the Clerk of the Dáil aimed at resolving this week’s unprecedented impasse – and sealed ...

Fianna Fáil politicians have urged Taoiseach Micheál Martin to ­address the lack of women in senior government roles after no ­female TD was promoted to a full ­cabinet position. Waterford TD Mary ...

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said there were the same number of Ministers with the name James as there were women ...