# What A Mess
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Last month January 2025
# The Morning Lead
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# The Morning Lead
Today we get a new Taoiseach - here's a rundown of how the day is going to go
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will become the next Taoiseach of Ireland.
# Special Ard Fheis
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# Special Ard Fheis
Fianna Fáil members vote overwhelmingly in support of draft Programme for Government
Micheál Martin says new housing measures do not have to wait until the autumn budget.
# Analysis
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# Analysis
Analysis: Vague plans and no setting out of 'first 100 days' priorities in new Programme for Government
There are no promises to achieve anything in the first 100 days of office, unlike programme for government documents of the past.
# Seat At The Table
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# Seat At The Table
White smoke: Regional Independents secure four government roles as deal emerges
Fianna Fáil is to hold a special Ard Fheis in Dublin on Sunday to ratify the new programme for government.
# Crunch Time
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# Crunch Time
Regional Independents agree to begin 'intensive' government negotiations with FF and FG
It is expected that the Independent TDs will have individual constituency asks along with national policy ideas.
# Government Formation
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# Government Formation
Split views over whether to move 'hugely important' Energy brief to Dept of Enterprise
Meanwhile Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael look likely to swap the Health and Justice ministries.
# Government Formation Talks
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# Government Formation Talks
Are the Healy-Raes credible partners for government formation? Micheál Martin says they are
Micheál Martin says he has had substantive talks with Michael and Danny Healy Rae.
# Snail's Pace
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# Snail's Pace
Getting a government up and running by 22 January increasingly viewed as unrealistic
Taoiseach Simon Harris says a government should be in place by the end of the month.
Last year 2024
# Political Awards
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- This year, The Journal team announced its political awards via The Candidate podcast.
- We hand out a number of gongs for awards such as the Minister Who Gets Shit Done, the Must Try Harder Merit and chat about the Ah Here Moment of the Year and Whoopsie of the Year.
- The top award, Politician of the Year, was put to a vote which was counted by PR-STV.
# The Big Interview
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# The Big Interview
Mary Lou McDonald: 'I can safely say 2024 was the toughest year of my life'
Apart from her party not performing as she would have wanted in the election, McDonald has experienced personal challenges this year.
# BID FOR THE ÁRAS
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# BID FOR THE ÁRAS
McDonald says 'multiple people' capable of leading Sinn Féin as she rules out presidential bid
A run for the presidency is not on the horizon for McDonald, she tells The Journal.
# Government Formation Talks
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# Government Formation Talks
Regional Independents pivot towards power while rotating Taoiseach now a certainty
The term time for the rotating Taoiseach is yet to be decided.
# Frederick Street South
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# Frederick Street South
Suspicious package sent to Social Democrats HQ in Dublin found not credible, say gardaí
Hayes, a TD elected to Dublin Bay South, was suspended with immediate effect from the Social Democrats parliamentary party this week.
# Government Formation Talks
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# Government Formation Talks
FF and FG deputy leaders meet as big question mark hangs over 'parity of esteem'
Who will be the third wheel of government is yet to be decided.
# New Kids On The Block
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# New Kids On The Block
FF and FG to debate next moves today - as possible Independent Alliance 2.0 waits in the wings
- Galway East TD Sean Canney says there is a myth out there that Independents only deal in parish pump politics.
- Wexford TD Verona Murphy says she has no bad blood with Fine Gael.
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