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

Problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly ...

Opposition leaders have signalled they will not accept any solution to the ongoing speaking rights row that would see Michael ...

A man died after medical technology including sleep apnoea equipment stopped working during Storm Eowyn, the Irish parliament ...

Micheál Martin will have to wait another day to become Taoiseach again after the first sitting of the new Dáil Éireann descended into chaos today, Wednesday, January 22. Ceann Comhairle Verona ...

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 ...

He was the first to meet with Taoiseach Micheál Martin ... “The most important duty the Dail has is to elect a Taoiseach and government and both party leaders agree this must happen today." ...

Independent Senator Michael McDowell has become the first candidate elected to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish ...

By 11.30, the Dáil was suspended after non-government parties angrily protested their opposition to the Independent TDs’ speaking time. Almost half an hour later, the Dáil resumed and so did the chaos ...

Dáil rules - or standing orders - are not something that would usually generate much interest, but conflicting interpretations of the rules are now at the centre of the first major political row ...

No, not the appointment of a new government. In fact it was the complete opposite. “This is the first time, I think, in over 100 years, that the Dáil has failed to elect a government to fulfill ...

The Minister for Justice has said a new extradition treaty between Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, where the leadership ...