Cork East

There is an apocryphal quote that is often attributed to the late US president Lyndon Johnson about the vagaries of elections. After losing a parti(...)

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has warned the major parties that anyone seeking to go into coalition with the Greens will need to seriously addres(...)

There are 516 candidates running for 159 seats in 39 constituencies in the general election with 160, or 31 per cent, being women.  This is(...)

Younger voters live digital lives, have shorter attention spans, and are interested in issues not political parties, say experts. Consequently, politi(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has pledged that Fine Gael will use national funding to make up any shortfall in support for Irish farmers as a result of propo(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has again insisted that Fine Gael will not go into coalition with Sinn Féin after the general election. He was speaking on Tue(...)

Curbing voter enthusiasm Senator Catherine Noone has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after irking voters with her newly-unveiled vintage camp(...)

Cork East (four seats) Current: 1 FF, 1 FG, 1 Lab, 1 SF Cork East may in theory be an open four-seat constituency but in practice tends to be a some(...)

The results of the local elections will be pored over in the coming weeks to discern trends for the next general election, with strategies and tickets(...)

Fine Gael could win “well above” 60 seats at the next general election, which would place it in a position to form a majority government with Labour, (...)