Count centres across the country have reopened this morning as Day 2 of the count gets underway.

How can election candidates secure the votes of beef farmers?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has claimed that Fianna Fail are "not to be trusted" as he criticised their MEP for proposing to vote against the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

On Brexit, the commissioner told members that he “entirely refuted” suggestions that there was no Garda planning for Brexit, saying there was a “high state of preparation”.

The Offaly county councillor topped the poll in the Birr constituency in the recent local elections.

The chances of a snap general election being called this summer in the aftermath of the European elections appear to have dissipated after Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil both slumped in a detailed voter exit poll.

Latest: Divisions between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are widening tonight over the Taoisach's intervention in the Jobstown case.

The articulate Waterford Fine Gael TD has long clashed with his boss, and Nama’s Northern Ireland loan portfolio is just the latest flashpoint, writes Daniel McConnell.

A row has broken out between two local authorities over which should have ownership of the diaries of one of the leading figures of the 1916 Rising.

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The Department of Social Protection has strongly defended the JobBridge scheme amid calls for it to be scrapped.

Number of seats: four. Electorate: 99,178 as of last election

A leading homeless charity has described the 55% increase in the number of families in emergency accommodation since the start of the year as “truly devastating”.

First-time buyer couples would get grants of up to €10,000 to help with deposits for their homes, Fianna Fáil has promised.

All the latest happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Former Fianna Fail Dáil Deputy, Councillor Chris Andrews, will run for Sinn Fein in the Dublin Bay South constituency in the general election.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claims the case of Belfast woman Mairia Cahill has been unfairly politicised.

The rate of monies obtained by the Revenue Commissioners through attachment orders from defaulting taxpayers has slowed down this year compared with 2013 and 2012.

"I missed you all," Mary Hanafin gushed to reporters in the manner of a faded film star who had just glimpsed the limelight once more thanks to a cameo role in a B movie.

By Irish Examiner reporter Conor Ryan

Fianna Fail are on the verge of achieving a remarkable three out of the six seats on offer in the Fermoy electoral area, although it will be a Labour Party man who looks odds on to top the poll when the first count is announced around 6pm.

Fianna Fáil has called on the Government to do more to make college more affordable.

Some “resentment” is expected among the older generation of Fianna Fáil grassroots members over the party’s efforts to get more women involved.

Opposition parties have made a last-ditch attempt to persuade the Government to scrap the dreaded property tax.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has accused Fianna Fail of having a "hard neck" after the party said it will table a motion of no confidence in Health Minister Dr James Reilly.

The problem with taking on a bad guy in a gunfight is that innocent people are almost always caught in the crossfire.

Fine Gael TD Nicky McFadden said she was “shocked and distressed” following her diagnosis with motor neurone disease, but vowed it would be “business as usual” as far as her work was concerned.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has said the Yes campaign for the referendum on the fiscal treaty must redouble its efforts after a poll showed 35% of voters are undecided.

Jonathan Haidt argues that genes and emotions have the greatest influence in forming and sustaining our beliefs. Terry Prone tests the theory

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Ireland’s embassy to the Vatican was closed to satisfy “Godless men” in the Labour Party, a rebelFianna Fáil councillor claimed last night.

SOMETIMES sorry is insufficient. An apology has to be accepted to be complete.

THE political future of a Fianna Fáil tax defaulter is hanging in the balance after a call was made for him to resign his seat on Cork County Council.

FIANNA FÁIL has seen a modest recovery in fortunes in the past month, enough to make it the second most popular party in the country ahead of Labour.

Disgraced TD Michael Lowry greeted a formal cross-party reprimand from the Dáil with a withering attack on opposition TDs.

FIANNA FÁIL is set to attempt to force disgraced Independent TD Michael Lowry from office by bringing a motion in the Dáil for him to resign.

Fianna Fáil TD Sean O'Fearghaill is re-elected to the Dáil in Kildare South.

“There will be no gimmicks“, warned Micheál Martin at the launch of Fianna Fáil’s General Election manifesto yesterday, much to the disappointment of Éamon Ó Cuív, who had planned to counter Fine Gael’s move to downgrade Irish in the Leaving Cert by reading from memory all of Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poems.

The Government is coming under fire for appointing the Social Protection Minister Eamon O'Cuiv as Fianna Fáil's campaign manager in the Donegal South West by-election.

FIANNA Fáil’s Mary O’Rourke came under criticism from party colleagues for conceding during a radio interview that the party would not get into Government after the next election.