Fianna Fáil has won the most number of seats in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) following the Republic of Ireland's ...

Uncomfortable fact for Mary Lou McDonald is that the governing parties did not win because they performed particularly well ...

​ Sinn Fein won almost a quarter of the vote in the Republic of Ireland general election of almost five years ago. This time ...

Michéal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, is the frontrunner to be the next taoiseach (Irish prime minister).

The country looks set to return a coalition led by a governing duopoly, in a result that reflects the nation’s unique ...

The Republic’s main opposition party Sinn Fein has taken a much bigger hit at the ballot box than the two governing parties – ...

Virtually everyone of voting age in Ireland can remember what happened in 2008, when the worldwide financial crisis destroyed ...

In an exception to the global anti-incumbent mood, outgoing governing parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael took the two largest ...

Sure, he had Crohn’s disease, but it seemed to make no inroads into his boundless energy.His main coalition partner, 65 year ...

Ireland is a more successful country than it was in the lifetimes of most voters and that makes it difficult to construct an ...

Sinn Fein’s electoral performance in the Republic should bring some “much-needed reality to those who claim that are all ...

Micheal Martin has insisted it is time to “get on with the work” after hailing his Fianna Fail party’s performance in Ireland ...