Polling for the Seanad closed at the end of last week, with the election held to fill the chamber’s 60 seats following the Dáil election last December. Mr Murphy says he intends to use his time in the ...

The Seanad is located inside Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (the lower house ... takes on the position as Cathaoirleach (speaker). Like in the Dáil chamber, the ...

It was a miracle the roof stayed on with all the roaring. There were rolling ructions all day in the chamber. Breakaway groups of Opposition TDs formed angry huddles on the chamber floor.

Anger over speaking time led to fractious rows in the chamber, and the Dáil was suspended four times in one day last month ...

Former Ballina councillor is the latest Mayo public representative to secure a seat in the upper house of the Irish ...

Latin scholars will know "camera" in the middle of that word refers to a "chamber". Armed with that bit of knowledge bicameralism becomes self-explanatory; two chambers which in Ireland's case ...

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

Offaly Fine Gael TD John Clendennen yesterday (Wednesday) made his first contribution on the floor of Dáil Eireann.

At the time of writing, no agreement has been reached and the Dail adjourned until Thursday morning. Simon Harris (left) and Micheál Martin in the Dáil Éireann Chamber on January 22 ...

"Today was unprecedented, unseemly, and tomorrow, Dáil Eireann must reconvene and must elect a Taoiseach and get on with the urgent work." Harris later added: "What happened today was stunt ...

Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has been elected taoiseach (Irish prime minister) for the second time after chaos in the Dáil (lower house of Irish Parliament) subsided. The Dáil was ...