Counting continued on Saturday to fill seats on the Seanad’s vocational panels.By 2pm, six of the 11 available seats on the agricultural panel had been filled.All five seats on the cultural and ...

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard.

Opposition parties have written to the Taoiseach to criticise ‘preposterous’ proposals to resolve a row over how speaking time should be allocated to Independents affiliated with the Government­. It ...