Election 2024 live updates: Economic storm clouds ahead on a chilly day on the election trail
Amid snowfall in parts of the country, politicians are continuing to seek votes and parties are unveiling more election promises
Amid snowfall in parts of the country, politicians are continuing to seek votes and parties are unveiling more election promises
While plans differ between some parties on housing, the cost of living and taxes, all of them agree on a few basic tenets around housing
We slice and dice the manifesto pledges of the main parties ten policy headings
Fine Gael targets SF spending proposals in ‘piggy bank’ video
Scanned, handwritten PDFs spread across multiple institutions is not acceptable in 2024 and does not enable accountability
Fianna Fáil to aim to reduce class sizes at primary level in education policy promise
Debate meandered for over two hours with the Simon and Micheál tag-team combining to stick it to the Shinners and anyone else who threatened to wreck their brotherly buzz
Among Quare Clare’s chief concerns are rising intolerance, public transport in rural areas and the failure to enact hate-speech legislation
Ten party leaders set out their stall on 10th day of general election campaign
Election 2024: Sinn Féin’s fortunes will come down to the national performance on the day
Election 2024: Thornton Hall, although outside the constituency, may be a flashpoint issue
Election 2024: Fine Gael junior minister Martin Heydon seeking re-election and should get over the line handily enough
Election 2024: Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are eyeing two seats, with Sinn Féin in running for last seat
Labour sets out six ‘key missions’ party will have if part of next government, relating to issues including housing, climate and health
Fine Gael outlines justice policy, Fianna Fáil sets out plans to tackle crime and Labour unveils health policies
First week of election campaign sees drop in support for Fine Gael with Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin tied in second place close behind
The shameful and eternal truth about the Irish left is that as long as it stands apart, it falls apart
People Before Profit says it will abolish UCS for those earning less than €100,000 as Simon Harris confronted over homeless crisis
Fianna Fáil accuses Green Party of creating ‘additional hurdles’ for first-time buyers in its manifesto
Aontú presents its immigration policies as Labour pledges €7bn of Apple tax cash for housing
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín raises concern over ‘time lag’ between seizure and arrival in State coffers
Peadar Tóibín says Senators ‘sniggered like giddy children’ as they denied being reported infiltrator during Seanad sitting
Aontú leader calls on political parties to audit members for potential contact from Russian intelligence
A record number of women are expected to run in the next general election but insults and misogyny make the job of parties more difficult to encourage women to enter politics
The rumours are swirling but never mind the noise: the general election campaign has already begun
Budget 2025: Labour hit out at ‘lack of imagination’ while Social Democrats call budget ‘a giveaway on steroids’
Aontú is concerned the proposed extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds amounts to a State-sponsored behavioural nudge: where their parents got SSIAs or Eircom shares, today’s young women would get Mirena coils
Support for Fine Gael increases as Sinn Féin drops to lowest level since last election with Fianna Fáil just behind in third
Mary Lou McDonald says inner-city communities ‘sick and tired’ of sense of ‘threat and dread’, lack of support and services
Election results: Barry Cowen expected to be elected alongside Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan as Midlands-North-West counting continues
Luke Ming Flanagan leads the pack in Castlebar as battle for three Ireland South seats comes down to four candidates
Tom McDonnell is a joint founder of Éire Saor in Newbridge, Co Kildare
Andrews, Doherty, Boylan, Ó Ríordáin elected as MEPs in Dublin; John Moran becomes country’s first directly elected mayor in Limerick
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