The departure of Michael Harty, who was elected an Independent TD in 2016 after running a successful ‘No Doctor, No Village’ campaign, now makes Clare an interesting one to watch.

The first weekend of the campaign was always likely to turn on an opinion poll in a Sunday newspaper and sure enough, that’s exactly what happened.

After three full days of campaigning, it is time to look back and examine what we have learned about General Election 2020 so far:

The Junior Minister had been a partner in government as part of the Independent Alliance.

Former Fine Gael by-election Verona Murphy is to announce on Tuesday whether she will run as an Independent candidate in Wexford in the upcoming General Election.

Veteran Labour TD Brendan Ryan has decided to stand down from the party's General Election ticket in Dublin Fingal, to allow his parliamentary assistant Duncan Smith to stand in his place.

Latest: Senator Colm Burke was eliminated in the ninth count of the Cork North-Central by-election.

Fine Gael's Colm Burke is optimistic about his chances of securing a seat in the General Election in 2020 but conceded that it is now unlikely that he will secure a seat in the by-election.

The promise to freeze fees at €3,000 a year for college students was made by Mr McHugh despite ongoing demands from universities for the Government to address a major funding shortfall in the sector.

The developer of the long-delayed Event Centre in Cork has submitted a redesign of the project to the local authority in a bid to allay the concerns of City Council planners.

The former Labour Senator has denied driving under the influence and said he did not provide a breath sample as the correct sections of the law were not read out to him.

Waterford Fine Gael TD John Deasy has demanded the local Fine Gael organisation be stood down as he hit back against a motion of no-confidence in him.

Lorna Bogue was deemed to be elected on the second count shortly after the count resumed in City Hall at 10am this morning, with 2,265 votes, picking up 58 votes following the distribution of Solidarity candidate Ed Fitzgerald's vote of 255.

News of the delay came as Tánaiste Simon Coveney expressed his ‘fear’ that frustrations over the ongoing delays would see the Event Centre become a ‘political football’ ahead of May’s local elections.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is to have individual meetings with TDs and senators who campaigned against repealing the Eighth Amendment in a bid to gain their support to legislate for abortion.

The process of enacting legislation in this Dáil has largely ground to a halt through delaying tactics and deliberate obfuscation of the political process, writes Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin.

Amnesty International's Irish section has launched a High Court challenge to an order of the Standards in Public Office Commission that it return a donation of €137,000 for a campaign to increase support for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment.

Farmers would still prefer to see Simon Coveney as Taoiseach, despite him losing out in the Fine Gael leadership contest.

In this era of ‘new politics’, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl talks to Juno McEnroe about the unenviable job of maintaining order in a fragmented, argumentative Dáil.

Not everyone may agree with frontrunner’s move away from a liberal agenda, but we have a sense of where he stands, writes Daniel McConnell

There is a degree of despair about the way central and local government is done in Ireland, but

Transport Minister Shane Ross has been accused of engaging in “classic Pontius Pilate behaviour by hiding behind the industrial relations fig leaf” in the Bus Éireann crisis.

Fine Gael’s director of elections has staunchly defended his party’s 2016 general election bill, saying its ballot box wipeout would have been even worse if it did not spend almost 40% more than any other party.

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Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been gaining huge amounts of support in his campaign to become the Republican nominee for the 2016 general election in the US and most of it seems to be coming from the controversial nature of his speeches and policies.

The ‘Earn Our Vote’ alliance comprises of Active Retirement Ireland, Age Action, Age and Opportunity, ALONE, Irish Senior Citizens Parliament, Active Ageing Partnership and Third Age Ireland. These groups represent more than half a million people over the age of 65 in Ireland.

Documentaries about two Cork related murders have been included by TV3 in its autumn schedule.

It’s that time of year again. Bronzed TDs and senators with sunny outlooks and tans return from their travels. The sleeves are rolled up and there’s a bit of pondering before the Dáil is back in full swing.

BANKING inquiries with less bite than a toothless Luis Suarez, jobs for Coalition cronies, and double-digit house price rises — it’s just like the bad old days of Fianna Fáil all over again.

AS horrific as it is, the dumping ground for hundreds of dead babies at the Bon Secours home in Tuam should not be the focal point of our concern, but rather how they ended up there, and why no one cared for so long.

SAINTS and sinners dominated a week that left more losers than winners.

Fianna Fáil’s not sorry anymore.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted Ireland can afford Universal Health Insurance (UHI) and it will be delivered during the lifetime of the Government despite disagreement among ministers as to how the scheme will work.