WE WERE SUPPOSED to elect a new Taoiseach today but instead Dáil Éireann descended into complete and utter chaos. Proceedings to elect a new Taoiseach and government were abandoned this ...

The Seanad is located inside Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (the lower house). It holds 60 members known as senators; eleven of them are nominated by the taoiseach ...

Fianna Fail is Ireland’s Republican Party founded on March 23 1926. It was the largest party in Dail Eireann from 1932 until it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history ...

There's a real edge to this row over Dáil speaking time which is both palpable, deep-seated and unusual. The Opposition is united in its fundamental antipathy towards the Coalition plan for ...

The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and the leader of the opposition are embroiled in a row over "telling lies". It follows a clash in the Dáil (the lower house of the Irish parliament) about ...

The Government's proposed changes to the Dáil speaking rights row will not go to a vote next week. Tánaiste Simon Harris told the Dáil this afternoon that it would be voted through on Wednesday ...

The speaker of the Dail parliament, Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy, said that independents who had been involved in government formation talks should not be given opposition speaking time. The ...