The Seanad election campaign may be in full swing but the focus of the three big political parties is very much on how their chosen candidates might fare in future general elections. There are two ...

Conor Murphy will stand in the Seanad election next month in the Republic of Ireland Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy is set to contest the Irish Seanad (Irish parliament's upper chamber) election next ...

Taoiseach Simon Harris has nominated two additional candidates to run in the Seanad election due to a shortfall in the number of contestants for two of the vocational panels. Sharon Tolan, a Fine Gael ...

Senator David Norris was one of the longest serving parliamentarians across these islands when he made his final speech in Seanad Éireann on Monday to mark his retirement from politics. He represented ...

Sligo-Leitrim TD Frank Feighan has been appointed as a Minister of State following a Cabinet reshuffle. Deputy Feighan’s new position was announced by Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the Dáil on Tuesday ...

The final elected seats to the Irish parliament’s upper house have been filled following a marathon counting process. Independent Eileen Flynn, Sinn Fein’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fail candidates Fiona ...

Ann Marie Flanagan has stepped up her call to political parties to "urgently act on promises made to disabled people and their families" as she launched her Seanad campaign. Ms Flanagan is bidding to ...

Four Seanad seats remain to be filled in the final vocational panel as the marathon counting process for the Oireachtas' upper house edges closer to conclusion. As the counting continued throughout ...

THE Children’s Minister has been asked to appear before the Seanad over the disappearance and murder of Kyran Durnin. The young lad from Drogheda, Co Louth, was last seen alive in June 2022, when aged ...

Alumni from more than 15 designated institutions are being encouraged to apply to be included in the first Register of Electors for the new Seanad Higher Education Constituency ahead of tomorrow's ...

THE Seanad shut up shop early yesterday and decided to take an extra day off -- despite having just returned from a 10-week summer break. After a session that lasted less than four hours, senators ...

Sinn Féin Minister Conor Murphy is set to contest the Irish Seanad (Irish parliament's upper chamber) election next month and will quit Stormont if elected. Murphy described the move as a "natural ...