IRELAND’S long-awaited Electoral Commission is to be established finally in the new year. Let us hope it will prove worth the wait, but, more importantly, let us hope that it has more teeth than its UK equivalent.

The number of young people on the electoral register in the North has increased dramatically, it was revealed today.

British people living in Ireland were today urged to take action to ensure they don’t lose the right to vote in the UK.

THE current limits on donations to political parties should be retained for the present in the interest of openness and transparency, Fianna Fáil’s former chief fundraiser has said.