Election 2016

Fine Gael slumped five points in the latest opinion poll as controversies surrounding Irish Water continue to haunt the Government. Taoiseach Enda Ken(...)

Each year, MacGill Summer School director Joe Mulholland asks a leading public figure to deliver a keynote address on the opening night in the form of(...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton have confirmed there will be no Mullingar Accord-type agreement in advance of the general election. The(...)

Tánaiste and Labour party leader Joan Burton has acknowledged some tensions between her party and Fine Gael in Government but said they had not reduce(...)

Fine Gael and Labour’s best chance of re-election would be to contest the general election as a government and not as individual parties, political(...)

One hundred TDs and Senators – or close to half the Oireachtas – are not expected to return to Leinster House after the general election, with €14 mil(...)

There is one man who will ultimately decide the date of the general election. His confidant on that momentous call is a football. In his usual homesp(...)

Just over €14 million has been set aside for the running of Dáil and Seanad elections that must take place by early next year. And €3.388 million has(...)

The chairman of the Oireachtas EU affairs committee, Dominic Hannigan, has said Ireland will have to “go the extra mile” to keep Greece in the euro(...)

Fine Gael and Labour are preparing to outline individual general election packages to protect each party from being outflanked on key issues on their(...)