Politicians return to Leinster House today still fired up over the row about Dail speaking time. The Ceann Comhairle ...

Independent Waterford Councillor Joe Conway has been elected to the Cultural and Educational Panel in Seanad Éireann ...

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Traffic congestion can be expected in Castlebar town centre this morning as Lower Charles Street remains closed off to ...

“(Sinn Féin leader) Mary Lou McDonald came into Dáil Eireann today with one intention and one intention only, to stop Micheál Martin being elected taoiseach, and therefore, to deprive the ...

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 ...

and by the men and women who fought and campaigned for the establishment of Dail Eireann. “Our democracy has remained strong through some of the gravest challenges of a turbulent century.

"And ultimately preventing a majority of the democratically elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate to elect a Taoiseach. "Today was unprecedented ...

“Today was unprecedented, unseemly, and tomorrow Dail Eireann must reconvene and must ... TDs to sit in groupings of at least five members to gain an allocation of speaking time.

“Today was unprecedented, unseemly, and tomorrow Dail Eireann must reconvene and must ... begin nominating his party leader as taoiseach. Members of Sinn Fein – including Ms McDonald, Pearse ...

“This is the first time, I think, in over 100 years, that the Dail has failed to elect a government ... been happy to progress on the basis that members of the Regional Independent Group ...