She started out her political career by fending off a high-profile candidate being parachuted on to her own turf. Now Olwyn ...
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 ...
The party has plummeted from a high of 37% this time two years ago to below the 20% mark — and yet members continue to insist ...
Labour finance spokesman Ged Nash said the Government lacked ambition and was “not ashamed enough of child poverty”. He was ...
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 ...
The former Taoiseach thinks the current rate of nearly 100,000 immigrants a year should ideally be brought down.
The inheritance tax threshold will rise to €400,000, among a number of measures in next week’s Budget aimed at wooing voters.
An analysis of immigration numbers following Leo Varadkar’s remark that people are ‘right’ to believe numbers have risen too ...
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 ...
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 ...