On the first occasion, Covid restrictions meant they had to stay at home in Cork while he achieved his life’s ambition in the cavernous surroundings of the Dublin Convention Centre.

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 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 elect a taoiseach and get on with the urgent work of government.” TDs from the Regional Independents ...

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After weeks of negotiations following November’s general election, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael put together a workable Dail majority with the backing of the Regional Independents grouping of TDs ...

In relation to the issue of where people sit in Dail Eireann, I do think that needs ... of Parliamentary Legal Advisers.” Following the Dublin Fine Gael meeting, further party meetings will ...

One foot in and one foot out. Even the celebrities performing the Quick Step on Dancing with the Stars would find the pirouette of the Regional Independents hard to follow. Their proposal to be ...

A bid by Independent TDs supporting the incoming government to sit on the Opposition benches to secure Dáil speaking rights has been criticised by other Opposition TDs. Tipperary North ...

This week saw one of the world's biggest fast food chains change its mind about who was welcome in its stores. But how much attention did you pay to what else had been going on in the world over ...