The Opposition has responded with fury after the Government used its majority on the Dáil Reform Committee to push through ...

On 22 February 1919, Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh wrote a letter to French premier Georges Clemenceau from the Grand Hotel in Paris. Ó Ceallaigh was from Dublin and had fought in the Easter Rising of ...

Ceann Comhairle tells Micheál Martin to stop carrying on like a child following goading by Pearse Doherty over Michael Lowry ...

The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing for nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament).

The Government has rammed through its "solution" to the Dáil speaking rights row – only to create a new crisis as the ...

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The leaders of the new Irish coalition government have confirmed 11 nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament). The nominations follow last November's general election ...

the Dáil Clerk Peter Finnegan and party whips Hildegarde Naughton (FG), Cormac Devlin (FF), Duncan Smith (Labour), Social Democrats stand-in leader Cian O’Callaghan; and other officials ...

Macroom councillor Michael Creed (FG), pictured with his supporters, was the candidate who lost out on a Cork North-West seat. Michael Moynihan and Aindrias Moynihan in conversation as votes were ...

It sits in Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (lower house). The National University of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin elect three each while the rest are elected to ...