TDs vote to cut excise on petrol and diesel from midnight tonight. Michael Healy-Rae votes against it; Danny doesn’t vote at all.

Correct

🚨 Dáil Éireann votes confidence in the government by 92 votes to 78. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Michael Lowry, Gillian Toole and Barry Heneghan all vote confidence in the government; Michael and Danny Healy-Rae both go overboard

Breaking: This is the moment Michael Healy-Rae walked out of Government to answer questions following his resignation.

He said he will be voting "no confidence in the leader of the country".

He said people "are hurting". 

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No

🚨 Michael Healy-Rae resigns as junior minister and will vote no confidence

Taoiseach's speech on the motion of confidence (which the government has, as usual, tabled in itself) is devoid of the usual chest-banging from a government reasserting its parliamentary dominance. The mood is more like 'urgent statement in the midst of crisis' than 'we are doing great work'

I'll take your word for it

Danny Healy-Rae doesn’t vote, at all, on the Dáil order of business. Despite being in the chamber. Danger here.

After 20 days on recess, the Dáil is very efficiently getting to its argy-bargy. A row on the order of business at 2:02pm instead of the usual 2:42pm

If this holds up/has been peer reviewed/etc etc, this is the single most extraordinary mathematical discovery in millennia

Heneghan adds that if the motion of confidence were to fail, the extra fuel reliefs would not be approved by the Dáil (which is procedurally true)

Barry Heneghan confirms backing for the government today on motion of confidence - at a time of global uncertainty, he says, we need a stable government. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

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The WhatsApp line for #MondayGR is open now - we’re all ears for your comments on the fuel supports, the demos, the disruption, the government’s response and whatever comes next!

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There will be no Leaders Questions tomorrow afternoon - the government believes there isn’t time for it given the Motion of Confidence (in itself) and the financial resolution to cut excise on motor fuels.

Suffice to say, this will not go down well

I think we issued nine different ministerial invites this week. None were accepted.

More of this sort of critique on Monday with Gavan Reilly at 22:15 tonight; the Minister concerned declined our invitation to appear.

I agree - not least because the Minister’s statement announcing he had called the Army (reportedly brought forward to the Morning Ireland window from its original intended release) was simply not true at the time it was released

So too will Carol Nolan, independent from Offaly, who also voted to appoint the government

Tipperary South TD Mattie McGrath, who voted to appoint the government in January 2025, intends to vote no confidence tomorrow, if he is discharged from a hospital stay first. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Kerry TD calls on Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael deputies to topple their leaders | RadioKerry.ie Deputy Danny Healy-Rae says there is a lot to be considered before he decides on how to vote in Sinn Féin’s no confidence motion.

Danny Healy Rae won’t confirm how he’ll vote on tomorrow’s confidence motion, but DOES want both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to change their leaders

Minister Patrick O’Donovan to ask media Regulator to examine media coverage of fuel protests Limerick TD and Minister for Communications, Patrick O’Donovan, has confirmed he will ask the media regulator to review the balance of broadcasting coverage during last week’s fuel protests.

Media minister Patrick O’Donovan will ask the media regulator to examine broadcast coverage of the fuel protestors and blockades, querying whether the airtime given to demonstrators created a “lopsided” public view of the issue while “basic institutions of the State” were in a precarious position

Smash hit Holywood sequel.

Doesn’t look like it, other than next month’s carbon tax increase being delayed until October

Simon Harris acknowledges that Ireland's new excise level on diesel will be 10c below the minimum level required by the EU - but it's being pursued anyway based on the "acuity" of the situation.

So, in not so many words, Ireland is asking for forgiveness rather than permission

but "every extra item of spending has consequences"