Ballina-based councillor Mark Duffy has won election to Seanad Éireann. Cllr Duffy was one of three Fine Gael candidates to win seats from the 11-seat Labour Panel. He was elected on the 13th count ...

Ballina-based Mayo County Councillor Mark Duffy has been elected to Seanad Éireann in the Labour vocational panel. The Fine ...

Further chaotic scenes loom in Leinster House this week over Dáil speaking time as a new Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll reveals the majority of the public back opposition parties over the ...

MAYO county councillor Mark Duffy is in a strong position to take a seat in Seanad Éireann following the first count of the Labour vocational panel in the Seanad elections. The Ballina-based Fine Gael ...

Waterford TD John Cummins has been appointed Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage as Taoiseach Michael Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris announced the junior ...

Kilkenny has increased it representation in Dáil Eireann today (Friday) - with the election of former minister, The Green ...

On Wednesday, a record number of junior minister positions were filled as the government divided out portfolios for the next ...

Counting got underway for the Seanad’s agricultural panel at lunchtime today. Outgoing senator Eugene Murphy is hoping to ...

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin indicated he is to appoint a number of female Seanad members in a bid to address gender balance in the Oireachtas. Mr Martin - speaking in Cork as he launched a new €132m ...

The global 'Pause for Peace' movement returns this St. Brigid's Day, February 1. Into Kildare and Solas Bhríde in Co Kildare ...

Katherine Zappone has failed in her bid to return to elected politics after she was yesterday eliminated on the ninth count in the Seanad elections.

Independent Senator Michael McDowell has become the first candidate elected to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish ...