Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come.
Leo's departure
Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced he will not contest the next general election.
Mr Varadkar's legacy will be a topic for the future, but for now, his departure is the latest erosion of the Fine Gael old guard.
He is the 14th TD from the party who will stand down at the next election.
Mr Varadkar joins the likes of former tánaiste Simon Coveney, and former ministers Josepha Madigan, Richard Bruton, Charlie Flanagan, Michael Creed and Joe McHugh.
Announcing his decision, Mr Varadkar said: “I have been an elected representative for more than 20 years and have been elected on five occasions, first to represent the Castleknock/Blanchardstown area on Fingal County Council and subsequently to represent Dublin West in Dail Eireann in four consecutive elections.
“It has been the privilege of my life and I am so grateful to have had the chance to serve my community and my country as a councillor and a TD.
“I have decided that the time has come for me to explore new options and opportunities.
“I have never seen myself as a career politician and I am keen to see how I can make my contribution to society in other ways.”
While Government continues to insist it will serve its full-term until March, all indications point towards an autumn general election.
Fine Gael will be very busy in deciding what councillors and party figures will fill the boots of their departing TDs.
Coolock unrest
The attack on the former Crown Paints factory site in Coolock is just the latest incident of violence and arson on a building earmarked for refugees in the last year.
At the site on the Malahide Road, anti-immigration protesters set a number of fires, one of which burnt a JCB digger, injured a security guard and threw objects at gardaí.
A number of petrol bombs were thrown and public order units brought the situation under control. A number of people have since been arrested and charged.
It is just the latest of over 20 incidents of arson at sites earmarked for asylum seekers over the past year.
In January, Niamh McDonald of the Hope and Courage Collective (an organisation that monitors far-right and anti-immigrant activity), told BreakingNews.ie that her organisation had documented over 20 arson attacks on buildings that had been earmarked for refugee accommodation in the past year.
In May, an RTÉ Prime Time Report said the figure of arson attacks now stood at 27 incidents.
A lack of engagement with communities has often been cited as the cause of tensions over the housing of migrants.
However, locals with legitimate concerns are often targets of far-right, anti-immigrant figures who look to stoke violence.
Taoiseach Simon Harris labelled the latest incident in Coolock as "pure thuggery".
"I am somewhat perplexed that this morning that I still hear in media and political discourse a reference to protesters.
"To be clear, when you decide to use a petrol bomb, you lost your right to be called a protester.
"I’m not quite sure why we have decided to, in any manner or means, legitimatise in any way, shape or form the actions of people who engaged in sheer thuggery yesterday evening and try to harm the men and women of An Garda Síochána, disrupt a community and cause utter chaos.
"I want to pay respect to the people of Coolock, people who called for calm, and indeed people who cleaned up after others came to their community to cause chaos," the Taoiseach said.
"Everybody knew this facility was going to be used to provide shelter for migrants. People can agree or disagree, but no amount of community engagement is required to tell somebody not to throw a brick, not to set a digger on fire, not to harm a security guard, not to put the men and women of An Garda Síochána in danger."
"I've had it up to here with this 'whataboutery'," he said.
"We will continue to communicate better with communities – good, decent people across the country who want to talk about legitimate issues.
"There's such a role for that, every community has a right to be engaged with, [but] what we saw last night was such a distance away from my question about community engagement.
"It was sheer thuggery. It should be called out as such, and I want to really thank the Gardaí for the very swift action they took in a very difficult circumstance that amounted to many arrests."
Council of State
President Michael D Higgins has taken the uncommon step of convening the Council of State over the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024.
While the Bill contains a number of undoubted positives, including allowing Defence Forces members to engage with trade unions, it also has highly controversial elements which some argue amount to a "gagging order".
The Bill is likely to be sent to the Supreme Court for consideration.
Abroad
In the UK, prime minister Keir Starmer's Labour government is taking shape, and Simon Harris will visit the UK's new leader on Wednesday.
Mr Harris has expressed hope that the new government will lead to a renewal in Anglo-Irish relations.
In the US, the country continues to reel from the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.
Mr Trump has not let it slow him down, as he appeared at the Republican National Convention with a bandaged ear, and announced JD Vance as his 2024 running mate.
Mr Vance, a former Trump critic who once suggested the former US president was "America's Hitler", is an isolationist who shares many of Mr Trump's policy beliefs.
The assassination has temporarily paused talk around US president Joe Biden's future, but prominent figures in the Democratic Party are now resuming calls for him to stand aside in favour of vice president Kamala Harris.
