:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QUA2KZRHY5OS7MLKIIAIYSXZOE.jpg "Sinn Féin to ‘dust ourselves off’ after it failed to reach electoral ambitions")
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party will “dust ourselves off” after it failed to reach its electoral ambitions in the recent local and...
CORK looks set to have its first Green Lord Mayor, with negotiations to decide the running of Cork City Council over the next five years described...
Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae has appealed for an end to “the politics of horribleness” after he and female members of his family were subjected to “outrageous”...
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Many senior figures in Irish business breathed a sigh of relief at Sinn Féin’s poor showing in the local elections last week, after four years of...
:quality(70):focal(1248x557:1258x567)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WINL2IWDNRBWPFR6XJYEGYM2R4.jpg "‘Their opponents painted them as a bunch of flip-floppers’: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin?")
It was a scene that played out in count centres around the country. A grim-faced tallyman at a ballot box. A tap on the shoulder and...
:quality(70):focal(1538x285:1548x295)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PP33PBFRV6CQDXUN2BKBOBKJQQ.jpg "General election could take place in October as calls grow within Coalition")
There are growing calls within Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil for a general election in October given the better-than-expected local and European election results for both...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RAFSX57ALX6MGUF7AJCEIWMEWI.jpg "In pictures: The story of the European and local election counts")
Taoiseach Simon Harris TD with Fine Gael candidate Regina Doherty after she was elected MEP for the Dublin constituency. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/PA Wire Clare Daly of...
:quality(70):focal(2288x1283:2298x1293)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6WSOFU2KSBDPPKI2JKIAJHN6NA.jpg "How Dublin City Council’s new anti-migrant councillors will complicate the business of local government")
Next Friday, Dublin City Council will meet for the first time since the local elections to appoint a new lord mayor. All 63 councillors elected in...
Ireland South MEPS elected: Sean Kelly (FG), Billy Kelleher (FF), Michael McNamara (IND), Kathleen Funchion (SF) and Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (FF) Midlands-Northwest MEPS elected: Luke ‘Ming’...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ED3N26VBL3MVMGTIUGE6RUQU5U.jpg "Sinn Féin under fire from Northern Irish base over shift to ‘middle class’ under failed election strategy")
Unease among Sinn Féin’s Northern base about the party’s election strategy in the Republic has given way to anger following its disastrous performance in the local...
The “party” elected 23 councillors in the local elections. In the Europeans, it had two celebrity candidates in the mix for seats, with Niall Boylan falling...
Billy Kelleher re-elected in Ireland South as Grace O’Sullivan is eliminated in race for fifth seatAll four Dublin seats filled for the European Elections Counting in...