Social Democrats

Even a month ago, it seemed merely a matter of time before Angela Merkel announced she was running for a fourth term in next year’s election. But afte(...)

A member of the Social Democrats has expressed disappointment at the refusal of the Bishop of Cloyne to reverse a decision to drop him as a reader at (...)

A Social Democrats election candidate who was dropped as a Mass reader at a Co Cork church because of the party’s support for repealing the Eighth Ame(...)

Siptu president Jack O’Connor has said the Labour Party does not have time to indulge in navel gazing and that it would be better if there was consens(...)

A proposal by the Labour Party to form a “progressive alliance” with both the Social Democrats and the Green Party in the Dáil, contains attractive el(...)

General election 2016 was a good one for the Social Democrats and a terrible one for Renua, whose party leader Lucinda Creighton failed to retain her(...)

Polltopper Stephen Donnelly was a surprise winner in the 2011 election. He decided to stand for the Dáil as an Independent after he learned that the E(...)

Róisín Shortall (61) started the Dáil term in 2011 as a Labour minister of state for health having secured an historic two seats for the party for the(...)

Catherine Murphy (Social Democrats) was first elected to the Dáil in March 2005 in the byelection to replace departing EU commissioner Fianna Fail’s C(...)

More than 90 per cent of the seats of the 32nd Dáil have been filled with candidates from across the political spectrum being returned. The counts i(...)