Micheál Martin, who was poised to be elected as Ireland's new Taoiseach today, slammed the chaotic Dáil proceedings as a ...

“I also know the practicalities of how the Dail works that when people get elected to Dail Eireann they can choose to support or not support governments and that is the way our parliamentary ...

To my understanding nothing has changed except for the need for additional votes." Healy-Raes to meet FF, FG teams amid govt formation talks A number of meetings are under way with a view to ...

“When one puts oneself forward for the Dail, to me, I want to be in Dail Eireann for the next five years. When you go forward as leader of a party you want to be Taoiseach. “I know there was a ...

Crazy stuff and again shows the priorities of FF/FG. The voting on the nomination ... must resign when he loses a majority in the Dail, he remains in office until his successor is appointed.

Deputy Aird had been chairperson of Portlaoise Municipal District since the local elections last June. Cllr Buggy was co-opted by Fine Gael as his replacement on Laois County Council in December and ...

An opportunity to enter Dail Eireann arrived in 2000 with the passing of Labour TD ... That he did the following year when FG TD Theresa Ahearn passed away and Tom Hayes was elected to the 28th Dail ...

The Laois TD was one of the highest profile TDs in the last Dáil as he was the Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee ...

Letterkenny councillor Jimmy Kavanagh has said that if he were elected to Seanad Éireann it would be an opportunity for Fine Gael to have a voice in Dublin, following the party’s bruising defeat ...