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.

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 ...