The final count of the Seanad has been completed, with 20 women among 49 Senators elected.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has moved to scotch suggestions that Mattie McGrath could rejoin the Fianna Fáil party – but the ...

A number of TDs who lost their seats in the last election put their name forward for the Seanad election this year.

Former junior minister Anne Rabbitte has missed out today in her Senate bid, which leaves her hoping for a Taoiseach’s ...

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have rejected suggestions that the Coalition leaders have failed when it comes to ensuring gender ...

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

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once predicted would be the first Fianna Fáil leader never to become Taoiseach became ...

Jerry Buttimer expected to be appointed Minister of State with Robert Troy also to make a ministerial comeback ...

Political chaos seems to have become more ubiquitous these past few years. Between the antics of the British Parliament ...

Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former ...