It’s only 13 years since Fine Gael won four out of the five seats on offer in Mayo in the 2011 election. That was a big ...

It is a reflection on the demands of political life today that recent weeks have seen two young men, Shane Cassells and ...

Labour finance spokesman Ged Nash said the Government lacked ambition and was “not ashamed enough of child poverty”. He was ...

An analysis of immigration numbers following Leo Varadkar’s remark that people are ‘right’ to believe numbers have risen too ...

The former Taoiseach thinks the current rate of nearly 100,000 immigrants a year should ideally be brought down.

The Fine Gael TD, who stood down as party leader and Taoiseach in March, made the comments in an interview with the University of Notre Dame’s college newspaper during a recent trip to the American co ...

Remarks by former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that immigration numbers have risen too quickly in Ireland have been described as a ...

The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis has gotten under way in Athlone with the party expected to set out plans over the next two days to ...

Fine Gael MEP Kelly, who was main mover behind the opening of Croke Park to other sports back in 2007, says the GAA can take a more active role in pricing around events taking place at their venues.

Next month the Republic of Ireland will set its budget, it is believed to be a giveaway to the middle classes ahead of an ...

There’s also the consideration of “events, dear boy, event”, to use Harold Macmillan’s memorable phrase. Take it as writ that if an election campaign were under way at this moment in time, the ...