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Gavan Reilly: €288k is the Skyclarys asking price, but what is the cost to patients of waiting?

The Skyclarys campaign has exposed a drug reimbursement system designed for bureaucrats and pharmaceutical companies, not the patients whose lives...

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Gavan Reilly: 2025 yielded €2bn in fuel taxes - how much of that can the Government give up?

The cash is there to increase further discounts on fuel taxes, but not if it’s to become a semi-permanent fixture.

20.08.2026 20

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Gavan Reilly: 37% of the time, Stormont hasn’t existed

Stormont is stuck in a malaise, with both lead parties ebbing in the polls, and new fears of another collapse. How has it come to this?

13.08.2026 20

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Gavan Reilly: There are €2bn reasons to welcome Trump back to Ireland

Trump is coming to Ireland next month for just 36 hours, spending barely four in Dublin. Like it or not, if you look at the numbers behind US tourism...

06.08.2026 20

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Gavan Reilly: How Ireland went from Europe's problem child to its unlikely power broker

The State is taking the final step of a €64.1 billion journey in offloading its final bank shares and officially shuttering Nama.

30.07.2026 20

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Gavan Reilly: The government is getting things done, like a student cramming for exams

More legislation has been passed this year than in the previous two years, but the rush to clear the decks in the Dáil raises fresh questions about...

23.07.2026 30

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Gavan Reilly: How much can you really do with €7.7 billion?

There is apparently a lot of cash available for Budget 2027 – but in reality, very little at all.

16.07.2026 30

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Gavan Reilly: A €750 million lesson on helping Ireland's worst-off

You may never have heard of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) but its findings are powerful.

09.07.2026 30

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Gavan Reilly: How much of our law is some form of EU law?

European law > Everyone else’s law and Ireland has 5,762 pieces of laws to prove it.

02.07.2026 30

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Gavan Reilly: 7 PMs in 10 years show Starmergeddon might be the new norm

Our political stats stan Gavan on the worrying trend of government by opinion poll.

25.06.2026 40

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Gavan Reilly: 1,854 days between acknowledging the problem with short-term lets and fixing it

With acute rental shortages and impact on housing stock, why has it taken Ireland so long to act?

18.06.2026 40

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Gavan Reilly: Can TDs criticise double-jobbing consultants when many hold down second careers?

One in six TDs have a separate role alongside being a public rep – and that presumes we don’t view ‘landlord’ as a job.

11.06.2026 40

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Gavan Reilly: 41,185 parliamentary questions so far this year - but at what cost?

That’s almost double the number posed by this time in 2024, overwhelming officials, ad nobody seems to know how to fix it.

04.06.2026 40

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Gavan Reilly: The Gerry Hutch 37.1% share of the vote in the shadow of the IFSC

Our new columnist Gavan Reilly crunches the data on the most recent hotly-contested by-election – with thought-provoking results.

28.05.2026 40

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Gavan Reilly: Gerry Hutch and his 30% vote in Dublin Central's best-heeled area

Our new columnist Gavan Reilly crunches the data on the most recent hotly-contested by-election – with surprising results.

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