Storm Lowry landed early in Dáil Éireann. And there was a complete pandemonium. The Government knew it was coming but decided it was unimportant. Bad call. It was a miracle the roof stayed on with all ...

Micheál Martin will have to wait another day to become Taoiseach again after the first sitting of the new ... elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate ...

Independent Senator Michael McDowell has become the first candidate elected to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament). McDowell, a former tánaiste (deputy prime minister), has been a ...

Now, in a significant ruling, the Ceann Comhairle (speaker) has decided that the TDs in the specific independent bloc, known ...

15,000 homes, businesses, farms and schools remain without power 12 days after Storm Éowyn. Hurricane force winds were ...

New Wicklow TD Edward Timmins has used his first parliamentary question to welcomed the approval for an extension for Scoil ...

Senator Seán Kyne has been appointed as Leader of the Seanad and Leader of the Fine Gael group, becoming the first Galway ...

The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing ... Ireland Labour Party became the first person from Northern Ireland ...

Now, in one of her first very significant rulings, she has effectively ruled against him. It is also worth noting that after helping to get ministerial posts for some of his independent colleagues ...

The first meeting of a new Dáil is always an occasion of pure political theatre, with all in Leinster House signalling the purest of intentions. Those in power seek to radiate a sense of high ...

Dáil Éireann delivered that assembly. Who attended the first meeting of Dáil Éireann? All victorious candidates in the 1918 election from Irish constituencies were invited to attend the First ...