Byelections
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Who are the four new TDs entering the Dáil today?
- Politics
- December 3, 2019, 11:37
Four new TDs will enter the fold at Leinster House on Tuesday. They were elected during byelections last week. But who are they? Pádraig O(...)

Una Mullally: Fine Gael has been complicit in debasing discourse
- Opinion
- December 2, 2019, 06:00
“She apologised, but there are other candidates, and one in particular, Gemma O’Doherty, who didn’t apologise and who seemed to get something of a fre(...)

The Irish Times view: Byelections provide boost for the Opposition
- Editorial
- December 2, 2019, 05:00
The Fianna Fáil victory in two of the four byelections has given the main Opposition party a timely confidence boost in advance of the next general el(...)

Taoiseach faces fallout from four byelection defeats
- Politics
- December 2, 2019, 01:29
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar faces growing fallout from Fine Gael’s defeat in four byelections amid pressure from within the party to remove Verona Murphy f(...)

Icy byelections blast away warm glow of Varadkar’s Brexit successes
- Politics
- December 2, 2019, 01:00
Four byelections, 111,027 votes and 261,171 people who didn’t bother voting. Much controversy, lengthy counts and very likely the last outing to the p(...)

Miriam Lord: Fine Gael’s byelection hopes fall victim to Murphy’s law
- Politics
- December 1, 2019, 21:48
To be clear, there were only four byelections on at the weekend, but some people became confused as the Government was all over the place. On Saturda(...)

New Fianna Fáil TD began his political career in student politics
- Politics
- December 1, 2019, 18:28
Newly elected Wexford TD Malcolm Byrne first contested and won an election for Fianna Fáil when he ran for the old Gorey town council. Elected a coun(...)

Who is new Green Party TD Joe O’Brien?
- Politics
- December 1, 2019, 18:17
Calm, reserved, hardworking, very thorough and “not a man to pick up a megaphone” to deal with a challenge is how a colleague describes newly elected (...)

Padraig O’Sullivan’s political career took off when he joined Fianna Fáil in 2012
- Politics
- December 1, 2019, 17:00
Newly-elected Cork North Central Fianna Fáil TD Padraig O’Sullivan has taken a somewhat unpredictable path to Dáil Éireann. A native of Little Island(...)

No turnout: returning officer surprised at ‘first’ empty ballot box
- Oireachtas
- December 1, 2019, 13:07
Turnout was expected to be low in the four Dáil byelections but in one part of Cork North-Central an expected low turnout became no turnout at all. W(...)