Outgoing senator Eugene Murphy’s bid to be re-elected to the Seanad was unsuccessful this evening. In a highly competitive ...

Lorraine Clifford-Lee of Fianna Fáil has lost her Seanad seat — and must now pin her hopes on being directly nominated by the Taoiseach. The ex-Senator is seen as having a good chance in that regard, ...

Fianna Fáil sought advice from senior counsel as the row over whether the technical group, led by Michael Lowry, should have ...

Outgoing Fianna Fáil senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee is understood to be considering her legal options after she lost her Seanad seat following a recount this morning. She has not yet ruled out the ...

Committee to consider wording of a new amendment to Dáil rules to break gridlock over ongoing row around Regional Independent ...

Waterford’s reality is that the Programme for Government is a politically expedient buffet. A list of possibilities, with a ...

The Laois TD was one of the highest profile TDs in the last Dáil as he was the Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee ...

A ‘gentleman’s agreement’ brokered by the Clerk of the Dáil aimed at resolving this week’s unprecedented impasse – and sealed ...

LIMERICK has a new minister in Fine Gael man Patrick O'Donovan, it was confirmed in the Dáil yesterday evening (Thursday).

Five Tipperary politicians, including one outgoing Senator, are contesting vocational panels seats in the Seanad election where polling opened last week and closes on Thursday, January 30. All five ...

Micheál Martin, who was poised to be elected as Ireland's new Taoiseach today, slammed the chaotic Dáil proceedings as a ...

Government leaders have accused the Opposition of engaging in a "subversion of the Constitution" by not electing a taoiseach, ...