Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, a junior minister, was re-elected as a TD (member of the Dail) on the first count in the south Dublin constituency of Dun Laoghaire. Informal tallying of votes in count ...

The position is anonymously elected by members of the Dáil in the first session after each general election. The largest three parties following the general election are Fianna Fáil with 48 TDs ...

Fianna Fáil parliamentary party members have also accused the Opposition ... more bitter and likely more repellant to many people watching than the first instalment of the speaking rights row.

The Government’s proposal provides for the creation of a new TD category known as “other members”, which would ... Daft.ie make for more grim reading for first-time buyers.

THE Dáil speaking rights row is officially over after the first slot of questions from ... saying a TD could not be a member of Government and a member of Opposition at the same time.

Combined members of the opposition parties had been ... "Overall the functioning of the Dáil needs to get sorted first or we're going to get no work done between now and summer," Christopher ...

Now he was a de facto diplomat, and with the title ‘Delegate of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic’, was one of the first members of what would become the Irish diplomatic service.

Murphy, previously a member of the regional independent group who now support the government, was elected as the first female Ceann Comhairle in December. During the debate on Wednesday ...

The first Other Members’ Questions was held on Wednesday after a vote was passed during chaotic scenes in the Dáil last Tuesday. As Independent TD Carol Nolan got to her feet to speak ...

Ged Nash of the Labour Party speaks to the media outside Leinster House, Dublin, as Verona Murphy, the speaker of the Irish parliament, faces a confidence motion on Tuesday over her handling of a ...