The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has phoned the UK Prime Minister David Cameron to congratulate him on his re-election.

Ukip’s only sitting MP has ruled himself out of the race to be the party’s next leader.

The DUP has retained its position as the largest party in the North but the UUP is arguably celebrating harder after landing two surprise wins in the general election.

The Conservative victory in Britain puts the long-touted in-out referendum on the EU firmly on the agenda, with huge implications for every member state, but especially for Ireland.

It may have been a very difficult and disappointing night for Labour and a cruel and punishing one for the Lib Dems.

By defying history to pull off a spectacular election victory David Cameron may yet have set in train events that will soon consign the United Kingdom itself to the history books.

Smashed and shaken by the sheer scale of its surprise election defeat, the British Labour Party now faces into months of soul searching as it chooses a new leader.

A triumphant David Cameron tried to heal wounds ripped open in an aggressive election campaign by pledging that he would rule Britain as a “one-nation Tory”.

EVEN if you allow for the vanity that sometimes convinces us that this fleeting moment is the most historically significant, it is still very difficult to imagine that there has been, in the history of this State, a British general election result with the potential to have a greater impact on this island than the Conservatives’ resounding and totally unexpected victory yesterday.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has congratulated David Cameron on his UK General Election victory today, expressing hope that strong relations between the two countries can develop further.

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Ed Miliband has quit as leader of the British Labour Party after a dramatic election night where his party was virtually wiped out in Scotland.

Nick Clegg has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK after admitting the results were “immeasurably more crushing” than he could have feared.

Nigel Farage today confirmed he would be stepping down as Ukip leader after failing to win Thanet South from the Conservatives.

Five men have been arrested after a police car exploded outside a General Election count.

The Democratic Unionists are this morning wondering if the post-election shakedown will hand them added influence at Westminster after a Northern Ireland poll that produced a couple of surprises.

David Cameron is preparing for another term as the UK's Prime Minister, as the General Election put his Conservative Party on the brink of securing an absolute majority in the House of Commons.

It’s all been pretty heavy going in terms of the British election so here’s ten election related stories that we're sure will lift your spirits and prove there's only one thing more important than politics ... comedy.

A radical shake-up of the way Britain votes is on the cards following yesterday’s knife-edge election result.

The election in Darlington where a Ukip candidate was mistakenly left off ballot papers delivered to a polling station will continue as normal, the constituency’s acting returning officer has said.

Voters in the North have started going to the polls in an election that could see their MPs influencing the shape of the next British government.

The Conservatives are no longer a party for the whole of the UK and have “basically mutated into an English party chasing Ukip votes in southern England”, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has claimed.

Will Number 10 Downing Street be home to the Con Man or the Squatter tomorrow night?

British police have launched an investigation into the comments of a Ukip candidate who appeared to make racial slurs and threaten to shoot an opponent.

The five leaders of the five national political parties sum up in five sentences why voters should back them. Here is what they said (in alphabetical order):

The two men battling to be Britain’s next prime minister traded insults in the last hours of the too-close-to-call campaign by branding each other a conman and a squatter.

Facebook users will be able to share the news that they have voted — without revealing who for — thanks to a new button that will appear on polling day to encourage turnout.

Prime minister David Cameron is Britain’s most popular major party leader and his Conservative Party the most trusted on the economy after helping revive it. However, win or lose a knife-edge election today, his career hangs by a thread.

The 385,000 voters born in Ireland will have some influence on the result of the British election, but its outcome could yet have a great deal of significance for the Republic. 

BRITAIN goes to the polls today to elect a new government and if political punditry is worthy of even passing attention the result will map an utterly novel but challenging political landscape for our nearest neighbours. 

One of the most keenly-contested British General Election campaigns in decades enters its final full day with politicians engaged in desperate eleventh-hour efforts to seize a decisive advantage.

Britain is facing weeks of political deadlock as both main parties seemed set to fall far short of a majority in Thursday’s election.

The good news for Labour is Ed Miliband is not nearly as strange in person as he often comes across on TV.

There have been many conspiracy theories swirling around the imposition of water charges, but the strangest yet has emerged from a celebrity candidate in the British general election — the levy is the fulfilment of a Masonic lodge plot dating from the Battle of Waterloo.

They are two of the most controversial candidates in the British election and, by chance, they both tipped up in a run-down corner of Kent to canvass yesterday.

Nick Clegg has warned that he is not prepared to tear the Liberal Democrats apart in order to enter into a second coalition with the Conservatives.

The neck-and-neck battle to be British prime minister turned increasingly nasty as both main party leaders seized on slip-ups by the other.

The British general election remained on a knife-edge after no party leader managed to land a killer blow at the final set-piece TV event of the campaign.

David Cameron insisted he is “pumped up” and “bloody lively” as he sought to quell criticism of low-key election campaigning.