The ballot boxes have been opened in Cork and the counting is set to get under way. Join us in Cork from the moment the ballot...
Latest – 12.05pm CORK CITY NORTH EAST & CORK CITY NORTH WEST THE most recent northside tallies for the local elections show some old reliables doing...
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Lekha Menon Margassery was returning from hanging election posters in Cork city just after 10pm on May 21st last. As she waited to cross the street...
A polls close around Cork, TDs were proud of their party’s campaigns and largely optimistic on polling day about their candidates in the local elections. “Election...
RTE will be making a major schedule shake-up as shows disappear off air across three days for special live programmes. The station will be broadcasting the...
Ruairí Quinn, a former leader of the Labour Party and cabinet minister, was not too proud to have cars blaring out Bob Dylan’s personalised tribute: “You...
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The atmosphere has changed. Time was when no election campaign was complete for party leaders without a cockle-warming saunter through Moore Street to pose with the...
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“They’re the Bill and Hillary of local Irish politics,” quips Fianna Fáil Dún Laoghaire TD Cormac Devlin in reference to husband and wife local election candidates...
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The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has said her party would have a scheme to sell affordable homes in Dublin for €300,000, appearing to move...
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Canvassing for migrant candidates in the upcoming local elections has become “intimidating” and “demoralising”, a north Dublin Fine Gael candidate has said. Supriya Singh, who is...
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“Is that the President?” asks a teenager to his three friends, who are standing on Main Street in Swords, Co Dublin, as Tánaiste Micheál Martin and...
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A candidate in the local elections in Limerick is being sued by a Galway development firm amid claims he sought €360,000 to withdraw a planning appeal....