Congratulations to Emmy on winning Eurosong on Friday night, the song Laika Party stood out a mile above all the other songs, but I thought the standard was dreadful, overall – a noise-fest for my ...

The SDLP's Leader of the Opposition has said that the public expect more from their MLAs that just "turning up". Matthew ...

To what extent are people happy to adopt a new flag? Are they happy to adopt a new educational system? A new national anthem?

This is called ‘With God on his Side’. He says he’s the one who’ll make America great He’ll drill, baby, drill — put cheap food on your plate He’ll call up the army, they’ll go along for the ride He ...

Mary Lou McDonald came into Dail Eireann today with one intention and one intention only, to stop Micheal Martin being elected taoiseach, and therefore, to deprive the people of Ireland of the ...

The Social Democrats were similarly up in arms. The members of Independent Ireland forsook their erstwhile rural and regional colleagues and joined in while Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before ...

The new government will not lack challenges, from the vexed question of allocating the famous Apple tax windfall to the even more vexed issue of Donald Trump’s potential impact on Ireland ...

Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has been elected taoiseach (Irish prime minister) for the second time after chaos in the Dáil (lower house of Irish Parliament) subsided. The Dáil was ...

Micheal Martin has said he is “thankful” to his supporters after he received the backing of the Irish parliament to ... for the establishment of Dail Eireann. “Our democracy has remained ...

Mr Martin said the failure to elect a taoiseach and was "the subversion of the Irish constitution ... elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate to ...