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.

Micheál Martin will have to wait another day to become Taoiseach again after the first sitting of the new ... elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate ...

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Dáil Éireann delivered that assembly. Who attended the first meeting of Dáil Éireann? All victorious candidates in the 1918 election from Irish constituencies were invited to attend the First ...

Now, in one of her first very significant rulings, she has effectively ruled against him. It is also worth noting that after helping to get ministerial posts for some of his independent colleagues ...

Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos A group of opposition ... “This is the first time, I think, in over 100 years, that the Dail has failed to elect a government, to fulfil its constitutional ...

No, not the appointment of a new government. In fact it was the complete opposite. “This is the first time, I think, in over 100 years, that the Dáil has failed to elect a government to fulfill ...

We are now entering a new era in the Seanad’s 102-year lifetime, with the end of the university constituencies, the highest number of Independent senators elected since 1961, and the first ...

"This is the first time, I think ... preventing a majority of the democratically elected representatives of Dáil Eireann to discharge their duty and their mandate to elect a Taoiseach.

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 ...