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Gambling regulator warns reforms on remote gaming and black market stalled due to funding www.​irishtimes.​com/politics/2026/09/30/gambling-regulator-warns-reforms-on-remote-gaming-and-black-market-stalled-due-to-funding/ via @IrishTimesPol
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Who is Jamie Bryson, the unelected loyalist standing ‘front, back and centre’ at Drumcree? www.​irishtimes.​com/politics/2026/09/30/who-is-jamie-bryson-the-unelected-loyalist-standing-front-back-and-centre-at-drumcree/ via @IrishTimesPol
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A Krakatoa that nobody saw coming: Dáil united on grave business of Garvaghy Road irishtimes.com/politics/oire… via @IrishTimesPol

A Krakatoa that nobody saw coming: Dáil united on grave business of Garvaghy Road

Sinn Féin leader agrees with Taoiseach that Parades Commission decision to permit Orange Order march was ‘incomprehensible’

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Reluctant Garvaghy Road resistance point man Breandán Mac Cionnaith rises to Drumcree challenge irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Reluctant Garvaghy Road resistance point man Breandán Mac Cionnaith rises to Drumcree challenge

‘Nobody saw this coming. I never thought we’d see this again. It’s like we’ve woken from a bad dream’

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New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’ irishtimes.com/politics/oire… via @IrishTimesPol

New data centres designed for AI ‘require power in excess of that used by 100,000 homes’

Oireachtas committee hears projections suggest installations to account for about 35% of electricity demand by 2035

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Scrapping carbon tax means handing ‘billions of euro to Ursula von der Leyen’ irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Scrapping carbon tax means handing ‘billions of euro to Ursula von der Leyen’

Simon Harris says he is ‘not going to stand for’ misinformation around the introduction of carbon tax

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What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated ... irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated ...

It may look like Garvaghy Road residents and Sinn Féin are in lock-step. However, the reality is more complex, with tensions aplenty

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O’Brien defends bus and train fares hike, says public transport affordable by EU standards irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

O’Brien defends bus and train fares hike, says public transport affordable by EU standards

Public transport fares are to increase by 15 per cent on average from January

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Almost 30,000 people opt out of State’s auto-enrolment pension scheme irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Almost 30,000 people opt out of State’s auto-enrolment pension scheme

Figure represents less than 4% of those enrolled and significantly below global levels, says Minister

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Ireland’s EU presidency may be about to hit a snag irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Ireland’s EU presidency may be about to hit a snag

Inside Politics: Civil servants’ work-to-rule could cause ‘serious disruption’; meanwhile, this is a dangerous moment in the North

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Not in Europe’s interest ‘to have multiple candidates in UN election’ irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Not in Europe’s interest ‘to have multiple candidates in UN election’

Phil Hogan hoping to edge out Spanish and Italian nominees in campaign to land €233,000-a-year Food and Agriculture Organisation post

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Limits on non-EEA workers relaxed ‘temporarily’ to tackle staff shortages in healthcare irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Limits on non-EEA workers relaxed ‘temporarily’ to tackle staff shortages in healthcare

Enterprise Minister Peter Burke will tell Cabinet colleagues change will last until more Irish staff are trained

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Drumcree standoff: ‘I want to stop all this in its tracks. I have five grandchildren; it’s breaking my heart’ irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Drumcree: ‘I want to stop all this in its tracks. I have five grandchildren; it’s breaking my heart’

Garvaghy Road resident Dessie Traynor is from a mixed marriage and is determined the Orange Order march will not go ahead

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Uncertain if Israeli ‘war’ bonds will no longer be offered for sale in EU through Ireland irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Uncertain if Israeli ‘war’ bonds will no longer be offered for sale in EU through Ireland

Oireachtas finance committee chair Mairéad Farrell says Israel missing deadline for submitting prospectus application may not necessarily mean programme shutting down

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Stormont staggers on, but this is a dangerous moment for Northern Ireland irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Stormont staggers on, but this is a dangerous moment for Northern Ireland

Going by the language in the chamber, things could hardly be worse, but there seems little appetite to bring down power-sharing

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DUP says ‘no business as usual’ at Stormont amid simmering Drumcree tensions irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

DUP says ‘no business as usual’ at Stormont amid simmering Drumcree tensions

Dublin and London urge parties to preserve powersharing in the wake of Orange Order parade crisis

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Powersharing looks precarious as parade splits North irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Powersharing looks precarious as parade splits North

Inside Politics: Fuel protests on Ministers’ minds with budget nearing

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Can we escape the algorithm? Mark Little is still optimistic irishtimes.com/podcasts/insi… via @IrishTimesPol

Can we escape the algorithm? Mark Little is still optimistic

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

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Phil Hogan’s UN job race: Decision on EU candidate unlikely during Irish presidency irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Phil Hogan’s UN job race: Decision on EU candidate unlikely during Irish presidency

Officials fear failure to unite behind one candidate could cost Europe chance in UN food agency election

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Budget 2027 will not be able to address ‘all of the challenges’ facing Ireland, Minister says irishtimes.com/politics/2026… via @IrishTimesPol

Budget 2027 will not be able to address ‘all of the challenges’ facing Ireland, Minister says

Dara Calleary expects ‘targeted investment where people are feeling the pinch most at the moment’

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