The new government in Ireland (which looks remarkably like the last one) faces a housing crisis that has become an economic ...

Housing - and the lack of affordable places to live - is an issue exercising voters from Athlone to Amsterdam, from Limerick to Lisbon, but one that the EU as a whole has not got involved in, writes ...

The first visually impaired politician to serve in Ireland's parliament has resigned from his party after being arrested ...

Veterans who served in the British Army during the Northern Ireland troubles have marched on Parliament calling for the retention of the Legacy Act. It comes as the current Labour Government is to ...

The veteran Sinn Fein politician is leaving his job as Stormont economy minister to take on a new role in the upper chamber of the Irish parliament.

The final elected seats to the Irish parliament’s upper house have been filled following a marathon counting ... The three ...

More: Stormont restoration - Rate the minister Seanad Éireann, or the Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas ...

Sinn Fein Stormont minister Conor Murphy has secured a seat in the Seanad as the marathon counting process for the Irish parliament’s upper house edges closer to conclusion. Mr Murphy took one of the ...

Robin Swann MP, in collaboration with the Ulster Farmers’ Union, is to present a petition in Parliament this evening (Tuesday ... “The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urge the ...

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K ... We are in the period of the red alert.” The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh shut its doors and Scottish First Minister John ...