The outgoing Taoiseach admitted he was relieved when his party received 21% first-preference votes in the exit poll on Friday ...

Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party and coalition partner Fianna Fail look set to return to government after the Irish election, ...

SINN Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh says she is delighted to make history by becoming the first woman in a Mayo constituency to ...

The Republic of Ireland elects its government using a system of proportional representation known as the single transferable ...

Ireland's main opposition Sinn Fein looked on course to win the most votes at a general election by the narrowest of margins ...

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, suggesting his decision to go to the country ...

Sinn Fein has won Ireland’s election, according to exit polls on Friday night, but looks certain to be shut out of power by ...

Sinn Fein is projected to win the most votes in Ireland's general election, though Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are poised to ...

Ireland's main opposition party Sinn Fein looked on course to narrowly win the most votes at a general election on Friday, ...

Sinn Fein, Ireland's main opposition party, is projected to win the most votes in the general election. Despite this, the centre-right parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, plan to form a coalition ...

An exit poll in Ireland’s general election suggests the three biggest parties have won roughly equal shares and the country is headed for another coalition government ...