Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have rejected suggestions that the Coalition leaders have failed when it comes to ensuring gender equality in their ministerial appointments. Six of the 23 ministers of ...

Last-placed Cathal Berry, former Independent TD for Kildare South sees his Seanad bid end. Former MP Mr Murphy, who led Sinn ...

Deal or no deal? Depends who you ask, really. The history of Independents in, or supporting, government is a long one, but there is some distance from the days when Independents would openly ...

Already elected to this panel were Mark Daly* (FF); Garret Ahearn* (FG); Martin Conway* (FG); Eileen Flynn* (Ind), and Nicole Ryan (SF). This completes the counts on the vocational and university ...

Problem ultimately wasn’t about low-stakes speaking time or terrible political nous: it was over a proposal that utterly ...

Talk about jobs for the boys. Only six of the 23 new junior minister positions are going to the girls/women. The appointments ...

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

The guaranteed salary of the Ministers of State will be €159,525, rising to €172,670 for Super Junior Ministers who attend cabinet.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael MEPs have been criticised by a Sinn Féin MEP for not supporting a vote on scrapping the Mercosur ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...

FF-FG want to place their independent cronies and government supporters in opposition seats. According to The Journal, Government Chief Whip Hildegarde Naughton said that at the meetings of party ...

We have seen time and again the power of community and of the spirit of the people, and when it is challenged, our people ...