Throughout the general election campaign, voters were assured that a future Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael government would support ...

The row was resolved on Tuesday following a decision from Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy that Michael Lowry, Barry Heneghan, ...

A row that disrupted parliamentary procedures to elect an Irish premier has been resolved after an intervention from the speaker of the Dail chamber. A Government spokesperson said they accepted Ceann ...

Kerry County Councillor Mike Kennelly of Fine Gael has been elected to Seanad Eireann. He's the seventh candidate to be ...

The Seanad, which is the upper house of Houses of the Oireachtas, has a closed voting system. Unlike general elections where ...

and by the men and women who fought and campaigned for the establishment of Dail Eireann,” he said. In a sign of the close relations between the two Civil War parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ...

The Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has this morning ruled that the Regional Technical Group of Independent TDs will not be permitted to sit in the Opposition benches today. This should clear the way ...

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 ...

“Today was unprecedented, unseemly, and tomorrow Dail Eireann must reconvene and must elect a taoiseach and get on with the urgent work of government.” TDs from the Regional Independents ...

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Writing from his constituency office in Liverpool, a seventh elected Irish Parliamentary ... Message of Dáil Eireann to the free nations of the world, 21 January 1919 Plunkett, alongside the ...