Having failed in her second bid to become taoiseach, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is going back to the drawing board to rethink how her party approaches another five years on the opposition ...

Committee to consider wording of a new amendment to Dáil rules to break gridlock over ongoing row around Regional Independent ...

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 ...

A ‘gentleman’s agreement’ brokered by the Clerk of the Dáil aimed at resolving this week’s unprecedented impasse – and sealed ...

LIMERICK has a new minister in Fine Gael man Patrick O'Donovan, it was confirmed in the Dáil yesterday evening (Thursday).

Only three of the 15 Ministers are women: Helen McEntee, Jennier Carroll MacNeill and Norma Foley, which makes for a ratio of 80:20 of men to women. Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore has said it ...

Five Tipperary politicians, including one outgoing Senator, are contesting vocational panels seats in the Seanad election where polling opened last week and closes on Thursday, January 30. All five ...

The election of taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has been delayed after the Dáil (lower house of Irish parliament) was ...

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

Government leaders have accused the Opposition of engaging in a "subversion of the Constitution" by not electing a taoiseach, ...

IT was expected at time of going to print on Wednesday that Limerick would be well represented in the incoming government.