In the December 1918 general election, the Sinn Féin party won 73 of the 105 Westminster seats allocated to Ireland. As a number of Sinn Féin candidates contested – and won – in more than ...

The leaders of the new Irish coalition government confirm 11 nominees to Seanad Éireann (Irish Senate). The Dáil has not sat for two weeks following a dispute over speaking rights for a group of ...

A chaotic row in the Dáil has been labelled as a “subversion of the Irish Constitution” by would-be Taoiseach Micheál Martin. The Fianna Fáil leader, who was poised to become the next ...

In Ireland's General Election in November ... a majority of the democratically-elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate to elect a Taoiseach.

“Mary Lou McDonald came into Dail Eireann today with one intention and one intention only, to stop Micheal Martin being elected taoiseach and, therefore, to deprive the people of Ireland of the ...

after being re-elected to the National University of Ireland panel on the first count. The Seanad is located inside Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (the lower house).

The new government will not lack challenges, from the vexed question of allocating the famous Apple tax windfall to the even more vexed issue of Donald Trump’s potential impact on Ireland ...