On 22 February 1919, Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh wrote a letter to French premier Georges Clemenceau from the Grand Hotel in Paris. Ó Ceallaigh was from Dublin and had fought in the Easter Rising of ...

The First Dáil met in public session in the Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House on 21 January 1919. Proceedings began at 3.30pm when 27 men who had been elected as members to the Westminster ...

Sir, – Minister for Education Norma Foley is looking to introduce a mobile phone ban in secondary schools. Is it not time to introduce a similar ban in the Houses of the Oireachtas? It is ...

Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Fine Gael are the three big parties in Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) Voters in the Republic of Ireland went to the polls on Saturday 8 February to elect the 33rd ...

THE DÁIL HAS heard varying views on the greyhound racing industry today as it debated additional funding for it and the horse ...

“Grainne is a fantastic addition to the Fianna Fail team and will make an outstanding member of Dail Eireann if elected the next general election.” ...

A civil war atrocity in Kerry still raises tension 100 years later as councillors clash over amending the official Dáil version of what happened at Ballyseedy in March 1923. The monument to ...

Increasing the number of women candidates through gender quotas does not automatically lead to more women being elected as TDs When President Higgins presented the new ministers with their Seal ...

Ms McDonald said: “It is very important that the record of the Dail is accurate, so of course it will be corrected.” Stormont First Minister and Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill ...

THERE’S a Russian spy sitting in either the Dail or the Seanad, but don’t worry folks, everything is fine and dandy.That was the subtext of the me Jump directly to the content Irish Sun ...

Preparations are under way to facilitate an early election should the Coalition leaders decide to go to the country in November, according to several senior political and official sources.