Protesters will take to the streets of Dublin city today demanding to oppose a government involving Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.

Fine Gael leader, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is prepared to “let Micheál Martin sweat” and did not seek a mandate to continue talks with Fianna Fáil from his party.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that extra legislation may be needed to strengthen employment and social laws to protect those who have to self-isolate in response to Covid-19.

"People are comparing it to Nuremberg or whatever else, it's nonsense and reeks of desperation."

Solidarity-People Before Profit look set to have a disappointing election and possibly only return two or three of its five outgoing TDs.

Extending free State childcare to two-year-olds with an increase to 33 hours of such care per week at a cost of €495m forms the crux of the party’s childcare policy, launched today.

Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar are set to go head-to-head on Prime Time on Tuesday.

We take a sideways look at the election.

Sinn Féin has been called on not to enter government with either of the two big parties and to instead unite in forming a grand coalition on the left.

Solidarity-People Before Profit has launched its “radical” manifesto on climate action with proposals to put large agri-corporations into public ownership and to impose a blanket pollution tax on airlines.

At a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on health, Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Bríd Smith, said many of the missing slides had serious misreadings.

The Minister for Justice, Charlie Flanagan has confirmed that of the 18 individuals charged with brothel-keeping here over the past two and a half years, 10 are Romanian.

Deputies Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny and Paul Murphy claim a Bill seeking to link exploration licences with meeting carbon reduction targets has been “strangled” by the Ceann Comhairle.

The Government’s “serious abuse” of Dáil procedure in blocking Opposition bills will today be the subject of a High Court judicial review.

The decision of four TDs to go to the High Court to seek to overturn a decision of the Ceann Comhairle is by any yardstick the nuclear option.

They have mounted the legal action against the Ceann Comhairle's decision not to allow a new bill on Dáil rules to be debated.

Two Opposition TDs have gone to the High Court to see an injunction against Ceann Comhairle Sean O Fearghail over his decision to disallow a new bill due to be debated in the Dáil today.

The Dáil was briefly suspended this afternoon after a row that has seen the Ceann Comhairle accused of attacking democracy.

Protesters wearing shorts and bikinis have protested in the rain outside the Dáil to highlight their opposition to Leo Varadkar's comments on climate change.

A State apology was necessary, but the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and families caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal need to know that it will never happen again.

Campaigners in Dublin say they are “overwhelmed” and “emotional” as abortion is set to be decriminalised in Northern Ireland.

In a video posted to social media, a uniformed ticket inspector can be seen restraining a young man.

As part of widely-flagged plans, Fine Gael intends to increase the carbon tax in next month's budget

Deputy Smith says outsourcing to US labs isn't working even though she's in favour of screening:

A senior manager at ESB has criticised the Government’s blocking of a bill aimed at preventing new licences for oil and gas exploration.

Climate change protesters have glued themselves to the doors of a government building in Dublin.

The People Before Profit deputy has seen her bill been backed by a majority of Dáil TDs on two occasions.

The Government has been accused of "utter hypocrisy" on climate change after it blocked a Bill seeking to ban oil and gas exploration in Irish waters.

The government is being accused of only paying lip service to climate change.