Counting is under way in Ireland's general election. But unlike the UK, it will take more than a few hours for all 174 seats to be filled - and much longer for a government to be formed.

The incidents were documented as part of a joint investigation by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Hope and ...

Polling stations have opened across Ireland this morning after a three-week election campaign. A popular Isle of Wight hotel will get a new changing room to serve its outside swimming pool – so ...

The first indication of the success or otherwise of each party's campaign will come at 10pm today, when an exit poll result ...

Social Democrats candidate Gary Gannon is competing in a very crowded field that includes big hitters Paschal Donohoe and ...

Voters in Ireland go to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament, and many are unhappy. A housing crisis and rising ...

In response, Mr Harris said: “I think there will be many Garda families at home finding it quite sickening that Mary Lou McDonald is now the champion of An Garda Siochana. That’s the first thing.

Promises made by the Sinn Fein pro-Irish unity party to tackle a housing and cost-of-living crisis and stop young people ...

Mary Lou McDonald says that Simon Harris and Micheál Martin want to put each other back into government, before branding them "tweedledum and tweedledee". Simon Harris says "you've had five ...

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald says she will demand a referendum on Irish unity in her first phone call with Sir Keir ...

The 16 cavalrymen of the Blues and Royals took their horses sedately along South Carriage Drive near Hyde Park. They were ...