Big news… The Social Democrats have announced that their co-leader and sitting TD Stephen Donnelly will leave the party. In a statement released by the party today, the Social Democrats said: “We are disappointed that he has decided to walk away from the project, we undertook, to establish and build a party.” Donnelly won a […]

10 years ago

Finally… The people of Ireland have known for a while that our best chance of forming a government in this Dáil was if the two largest political parties came together. After dodging the issue over the past number of weeks, it seems that the pair are finally sitting down next week for talks about forming a […]

10 years ago

He’s back in power. After a tight race in the Tipperary constituency, Labour’s Alan Kelly has been re-elected to Dáil Éireann. Fine Gael TD Tom Hayes ran him close with the two neck a neck after six rounds of counting but Kelly pulled through in the end. We’ve seen some exuberant reactions from politician over the […]

10 years ago

If there’s any confusion at all, watch this. While the majority of people will be familiar with how to vote in a General Election, there are always people who inadvertently spoil their ballot. YouTube user Seán O’Laoghaire has put together this handy, short video on what y0u need to do at your polling station on […]

10 years ago

Who is your money on for the general election? Ladbrokes report that the candidate they’ve seen the most money for in the General Election betting is Fianna Fáil’s Micháel Martin. The party leader has been popular across a number of markets, which has seen his price to be the next Taoiseach tumble from 14/1 in […]

10 years ago

The country was watching… Over one million people tuned in to watch Ireland’s party leaders go toe-to-toe over the issues last night. Ireland’s engagement with politics is climbing as Friday 26 nears, and a total of 1,109,000 people watched the Miriam O’Callaghan moderate the exchange of ideas. Viewers tuned in from over 66 countries to […]

10 years ago