A busy day in Dáil Eireann will be headlined by the vote for the ceann comhairle position, with Verona Murphy the favourite ...

Four TDs were in contention to be the Ceann Comhairle for the 34th Dáil Éireann which sat for the first time today, December ...

Proceedings in Leinster House kick off at 10:30am with the clerk Peter Finnegan reading the Proclamation summoning Dáil ...

Newly elected Cork TDs expressed their joy as the Dáil returned on Wednesday, December 18 for the first time since the ...

A husband and wife who were both elected to Dáil Éireann are looking forward to working together, describing it as “a rare ...

The opening of the 34th Dáil was taken up by wrangling over filling a €250,000-a-year post that cynics might argue is the ...

Gemma Hussey forged a path into Dáil Éireann in the 1970s and 1980s, a period when there were few women represented in politics at a national level. Ms Hussey was a passionate advocate of women ...

Verona Murphy has become the first female speaker of the Irish parliament as part of attempts to form a coalition government.

The country's youngest TD has said he's humbled to be given a mandate by the people of Cork as the 34th Dáil convenes for the first time today. Labour representative Eoghan Kenny was elected to Cork ...

Brendan Smith was first elected to the Dail in 1992 and is the Fianna Fail Parliamentary Party Chairman and Co-Chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. And returning Niamh Smyth is the ...

The new Dáil Éireann will have seats for 174 Teachtaí Dála (members of the Dail, 'TDs'), an increase from the outgoing Dail, which had 160 seats. In Ireland, the party that wins the most seats ...

At 24 years of age, Labour’s new TD in Cork North Central Eoghan Kenny will be one of the youngest in Dáil Éireann after he was deemed elected on Monday night following a recount Eoghan Kenny ...