"I never thought I'd see a bill like this before us, but we know it must be passed," said Senator James Reilly. .

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald and the party's Ard Chomhairle met over the weekend and agreed on seven candidates who have been backed ahead of voting opening for the race later this month.

Some locals in the Liberties in Dublin have raised concerns about graphic images being displayed outside a sex shop.

When a fiction-based resolution of a crisis starts to unravel it is not always easy to pinpoint the moment progress reverts to tribal retrenchment.

Any of us who get through this life without being, at one stage or another, susceptible to a charge of hypocrisy is indeed one of a sainted minority.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has launched a blistering attack on what she called the “utterly repulsive” media in the Republic over the treatment of the late Martin McGuinness during the 2011 presidential election.

Sinn Féin has suspended a senator for three months after what the party described as “unacceptable Twitter activity” over a murdered prison officer.

Latest: The leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, says it's clear that any hope the new Sinn Féin leadership would herald the dawn of a new era has now disappeared.

Fine Gael has been dealt a further blow after high- profile candidates failed to get elected to the Seanad.

Sinn Féin has nominated councillor Cathal King as its candidate for the imminent Dublin South West by-election — just weeks after he insisted he would not run in order to make room for a female candidate.

A mother who has been living in a hotel after it was found she had been living in her car with three young children, has until next week to find accommodation.

A Tallaght family has been reduced to sleeping in their car as they are unable to get emergency accommodation.