The return to the usual Dail business comes two weeks after the opposition disrupted the nomination of Mr Martin as Taoiseach in a protest over speaking time. Government-affiliated independents had ...

The Government will contest a Sinn Féin TD’s High Court action based on “simplistic but false” claims alleging the ...

The Government only requested generators from the EU on Saturday after the worst storm in 80 years had passed.

On Wednesday evening, Mr Martin said it was the first time in over 100 years that the Dail had failed to “fulfil its constitutional obligation” to nominate a government. That obligation was ...

and by the men and women who fought and campaigned for the establishment of Dail Eireann. “Our democracy has remained strong through some of the gravest challenges of a turbulent century.

Irish lawmakers have voted to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time at the helm of a ...

On the first occasion, Covid restrictions meant they had to stay at home in Cork while he achieved his life’s ambition in the cavernous surroundings of the Dublin Convention Centre.

The first meeting of a new Dáil is always an occasion of pure political theatre, with all in Leinster House signalling the purest of intentions. Those in power seek to radiate a sense of high ...

Martin is one of the longest serving TDs (MPs) in the Dáil having been first elected in 1989 to the constituency of Cork south central and was previously taoiseach between 2020 and 2022.