On the first occasion, Covid restrictions meant they had to stay at home in Cork while he achieved his life’s ambition in the cavernous surroundings of the Dublin Convention Centre.

Micheál Martin will have to wait another day to become Taoiseach again after the first sitting of the new ... elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate ...

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The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing ... Ireland Labour Party became the first person from Northern Ireland ...

Spare a thought for the Coalition’s overdue triplets, still crawling towards the brightness of the ministerial day while ...

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Now, in one of her first very significant rulings, she has effectively ruled against him. It is also worth noting that after helping to get ministerial posts for some of his independent colleagues ...

Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos A group of opposition ... “This is the first time, I think, in over 100 years, that the Dail has failed to elect a government, to fulfil its constitutional ...

Dáil Éireann delivered that assembly. Who attended the first meeting of Dáil Éireann? All victorious candidates in the 1918 election from Irish constituencies were invited to attend the First ...