General election candidate Peter Casey says he will represent Donegal if elected to the 33rd Dáil.

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

Candidates were asked to confirm that they had no pending prosecutions or prior convictions other than minor road traffic offences.

Leo Varadkar's running mate in the upcoming General Election also criticised the move.

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.

"I'm happy I've made the right decision. I need to do things for myself and my family now. That's the way it is."

Latest 7.20pm: Verona Murphy has been eliminated from the Wexford By-election.

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

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has ruled out calling a pre-Christmas snap general election despite a number of Fine Gael ministers insisting he should go to the polls now.

Allowing political adverts on Facebook is not about making money, a Facebook boss has claimed, as the social network faces further scrutiny in the lead-up to the 2020 US presidential elections and a possible UK general election.

Even Brexiteers are beginning to realise that the Kafkaesque nightmare is a UK problem, not a European one. The EU’s patience will run out eventually, writes Lionel Laurent.

Former minister and Labour TD Kathleen Lynch is quitting politics and will not contest the Cork North Central by-election or general election, saying Labour must pass on the torch to survive.

A religious order which sanctioned the near total demolition of an historic structure in Cork has agreed to reinstate it in full within four months of the rebuilding work starting.

You don’t need much self-awareness to realise that if you’re making the DUP leader, Arlene Foster, sound reasonable, you’re in trouble.

Fianna Fáil are preparing for an election as early as September, with the party convinced Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is “gunning” to go to the polls.

The leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster, is calling for the North's power-sharing government to be restored immediately.

US president Donald Trump has defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, saying it was standard campaign practice and maintaining "nothing happened" as a result.

Theresa May's desire to team up with the DUP does "not necessarily" undermine the Northern Ireland peace process, according to Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.

Sterling will “falter” and UK shares and gilts would likely rise if Thursday’s UK general election returns a hung parliament, a leading London economics firm has predicted.

AIB chief executive Bernard Byrne has urged the Government to return the State-owned lender to the stock markets by summer, rather than delaying until the second half of 2017.

US stocks joined a worldwide surge higher on Monday after the first round of France's presidential election raised expectations that the European Union will hold together.

US stocks held steady on Wall Street and bond prices gave back some of their big gains from Wednesday as a rally fuelled by the Federal Reserve's announcement on interest rates faded.

THE general election of 1989 was the first to produce a Fianna Fáil coalition government. 

Farmers descended on Co Offaly from IFA branches all over the country to hear the last IFA presidential and deputy presidential election debate.

An anti-water charges protestor was convicted this evening of assaulting a Detective Garda, while he was on duty, providing protection for the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers, at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting.

Brian Murphy thinks Enda Kenny’s best chance of forming a new government after the general election will come if he sticks to the story of recovery he has been telling all along

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The mysterious leaking of Labour's controversial draft election poster depicting a Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin coalition as a just-married gay couple shows the fine line between landing a sneaky pre-vote punch and having it hit the thrower square in the face, writes political reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Former Clare GAA chairman Michael McDonagh has defended his version of his “warts and all review” of the 2015 season, which he delivered at last week’s county convention.

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has responded to Labour's promise of tipping the balance of public spending towards public services.

Who is Left, let alone ‘hard-Left’? Labour claims to be Left, while decrying the hard-Left, writes Gerard Howlin

British Labour leader’s anti-austerity policies of a living wage and high taxation of the rich would be popular here, says Tom O’Connor. Would you vote for him? Take our poll.

By the age of 32, Michael Collins was old enough to lead the armed struggle against the British, old enough to participate in the subsequent treaty negotiations in London, old enough to serve as finance minister and acting head of Government, and old enough to die in uniform.

Back in the day when I believed that politics could improve the lot of the common man, I used to be enthralled by the British general election, writes Paddy Heaney.

Think you know what internet users are searching for? You can finally put that knowledge to good use…or use at the very least.

The controversy over the recent arrest of Irish Water protesters after Tánaiste Joan Burton was trapped in a car has spread abroad.

The German government believes that the eurozone would now be able to cope with a Greek exit if that proved necessary, the Der Spiegel news magazine reported.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed the IRA is calling the shots for Sinn Féin in the Republic.