The return to the usual Dail business comes two weeks after the opposition disrupted the nomination of Mr Martin as Taoiseach in a protest over speaking time. Government-affiliated independents had ...

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President Higgins delivered the seals of office to the new senior ministers in the cabinet at Áras An Uachtaráin in Dublin ...

and by the men and women who fought and campaigned for the establishment of Dail Eireann,” he said. In a sign of the close relations between the two Civil War parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ...

Storm Lowry landed early in Dáil Éireann. And there was a complete pandemonium. The Government knew it was coming but decided it was unimportant. It was a miracle the roof stayed on with all 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 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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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 ...