GERRY ‘The Monk’ Hutch has broken his silence by thanking his voters after he narrowly missed out on a Dail seat at the ...

Over the past three days, the Republic of Ireland has been counting votes from its snap general election and the results ...

A return of a Fianna Fail/Fine Gael government looks odds on, but uncertainty remains oaround the make up of the other ...

Hundreds of thousands of Irish parents are set to receive a double child benefit payment today in a major cost of living ...

For Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin and current taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris, wooing like-minded independents would be likely to involve fewer policy concessions, and financial ...

Ireland has proved a partial exception to the anti-incumbent mood in elections around the world. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, ...

A range of independent TDs are contemplating the prospect of entering Ireland’s next coalition government as Fianna Fail and ...

Michéal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, is the frontrunner to be the next taoiseach (Irish prime minister).

The two parties that have dominated Irish politics for a century have fallen just short of the combined number of TDs required for a Dail majority.