The Seanad holds 60 members, 11of them are nominated by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and 49 are elected. It sits in ...

Taoiseach Charles Haughey dissolves the Twenty Fifth Dáil. Report shows gathering of Teachta Dála (TDs) chatting outside Dáil Eireann. People carrying boxes of stationery out of Dáil.

As he stepped out of the limousine, the windows of a suite on the fourth floor of the hotel were flung open and appeared Charles Haughey, Taoiseach or prime minister of Ireland, who at the top of ...

An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, has told the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) summit in Paris that the ending of the nuclear arms race and elimination of all nuclear weapons ...

An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, was tonight given an ultimatum by the Fianna Fáil Executive of the Dublin West Constituency to reinstate Brian Lenihan in the Cabinet or face a challenge to his ...

An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, and the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had a longer than expected meeting during today's summit at Hanover in West Germany. Report shows to camera Seán ...

An Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, opened this year's National Tree Week at a ceremony in Ardagh, County Longford. At the event he mentioned that he would consider postponing the local elections until ...

In the latest of his meetings with other European Economic Community (EEC) leaders in advance of Saturday’s summit in Dublin, Taoiseach Charles Haughey has met the Portuguese Prime Minister ...

Former deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Seamus Mallon was nominated to the Seanad by then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey in 1982, holding the position of senator between May and ...