The horrifying toll exacted by the Irish election process was shockingly visible over the last stretch in the heavily-lined ...

Fianna Fáil has won the most number of seats in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) following the Republic of Ireland's ...

Uncomfortable fact for Mary Lou McDonald is that the governing parties did not win because they performed particularly well ...

​ Sinn Fein won almost a quarter of the vote in the Republic of Ireland general election of almost five years ago. This time ...

Michéal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, is the frontrunner to be the next taoiseach (Irish prime minister).

The country looks set to return a coalition led by a governing duopoly, in a result that reflects the nation’s unique ...

The Republic’s main opposition party Sinn Fein has taken a much bigger hit at the ballot box than the two governing parties – ...

Virtually everyone of voting age in Ireland can remember what happened in 2008, when the worldwide financial crisis destroyed ...

In an exception to the global anti-incumbent mood, outgoing governing parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael took the two largest ...

Ireland has proved a partial exception to the anti-incumbent mood in elections around the world. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, ...

Ireland is a more successful country than it was in the lifetimes of most voters and that makes it difficult to construct an ...

Sinn Fein’s electoral performance in the Republic should bring some “much-needed reality to those who claim that are all ...