WHEN Mary Robinson was first elected to the Presidency there was a sense of “shift”. The South of Ireland gave its first sign ...

Sinn Féin has emerged as the country’s most popular political party, according to a new Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks opinion poll. This first survey following the Presidential Election shows Sinn ...

Homeowners in Clare claim they’re in the dark when it comes to grass cutting times in their housing estates. Following ...

This photograph was taken on November 18, 1975, when supporters carried the new Fine Gael Deputy for West Mayo, Enda Kenny, ...

The Taoiseach stated that individuals who use the tricolour to imply they “alone represent Irishness” are doing a disservice ...

Right now, Sinn Féin are the bookies’ favourites to win the next general election, but you might as well ask Mystic Meg ...

Leo Varadkar, Paschal Donohoe and Simon Coveney are gone but the question remains: what does Fine Gael stand for?

Paschal Donohoe's decision this week to resign from Irish politics and take a job at the World Bank in Washington DC left the Government with a big choice to make to avoid a political vacuum and ...

It was hardly the sort of earthquake election that we had become accustomed to in recent times. On a dreary November day this time last year, the Irish electorate went out under their umbrellas and ...

Overseeing the finance portfolio after the departure of Paschal Donohoe is something of a swing for the fences for Tánaiste ...

In what state of mind did the Cork City councillors decide it was a good idea to pave over and gravel the only remaining ...

Former chief executive Francis Doherty told the committee that the charity was ‘verging on total collapse’ in 2023.