DO you have a brilliant or simple idea to encourage people to get more engaged with Ireland’s democratic system? If so, then ...

A survey ahead of last year’s election showed that 70% of the electorate either oppose or strongly oppose the State’s funding ...

the time has now come for both sides to devise an equitable solution that is proportionate to the scale of the problem ...

THE Government has been accused of breaking a pre-election promise to children in need of spinal surgeries as 37 kids remain ...

Laois dairy farmer and Fine Gael TD Willie Aird has backed the setting up of a new Government Committee to retain Nitrates ...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and housing statistics. Taking liberties in paraphrasing that particular ...

Ireland has a proportional representation ... to motivate a base of voters with extremist rhetoric. The recent Irish general election shows how this system helps avoid excessive polarization.

The nominations follow last November's general election and the election of the new government in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) in January. Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin ...

Micheál Martin has insisted that housing is the "number one issue" for the Irish government. It comes as he faced criticism over the use of housing data ahead of the general election last year.

Ireland had to come from behind against ... poll lead melt away and its centre-right rivals win a general election, the left-wing Irish nationalists face tough choices to rebuild a realistic ...

However, Irish officials may find the new dispensation frostier than the last. Like Mr Harris – who flaunted a Kamala Harris hat during the US election – Ireland’s diplomats reportedly backed the ...