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

THREE candidates have been elected on the first count on the Senate Agricultural panel — including former junior minister ...

The Regional Independents will formally engage with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for the first time on Friday when the group will submit a position document setting out its main preconditions for ...

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 ...

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

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

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, in how they assembled their government of choice, are behaving as if they don’t give two ...

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

AN agreement has been reached between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Independent TDs with a five-year plan for the country. A new programme for government is set to be put to the parliamentary parties ...

Last week’s chaotic scenes demonstrated that there is an opportunity for Opposition parties to come together and win public ...