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

Solidarity-People Before Profit has launched its “radical” manifesto on climate action with proposals to put large agri-corporations into public ownership and to impose a blanket pollution tax on airlines.

The last Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes poll a month ago had both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail neck and neck on 27%

TDs battling it out on the floor of the Dáil last night were a damn sight more comfortable than the 4,000 children who will be homeless and stuck in emergency accommodation this Christmas.

Deputies Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny and Paul Murphy claim a Bill seeking to link exploration licences with meeting carbon reduction targets has been “strangled” by the Ceann Comhairle.

It was a good day at the office for Fianna Fáil, according to party leader Micheál Martin, and it was hard to disagree.

It is all eyes on Fianna Fáil in Cork North-Central where the party is scrambling to continue its presence in the wake of Billy Kelleher’s departure to Europe.

Independent TD Noel Grealish has been accused of "disgraceful racism" after raising questions in the Dáil around money being sent home by migrants.

Fine Gael will be sorely tempted to seek an early General Election as its support now stands at 32%, up three points since the last poll in September.

Paul Murphy’s new group wants a new socialist movement in society. Yet even Fianna Fáil once had a self-proclaimed socialist leader in Bertie Ahern, writes Michael Clifford

There is now a meeting of minds between Trotskyist TD Paul Murphy and a once neo-Thatcherite Leo Varadkar.

Leo Varadkar knows that the Greens have eaten into a middle-class Fine Gael vote, writes Gerard Howlin

Local authorities could be given new powers to force developers to ring-fence a third of all homes for first-time buyers in a bid to stop “cuckoo fund” investment firms snapping up large chunks of the market.

Mr Murphy repeatedly said it would be "inappropriate" for him to directly intervene in the cases after being heavily criticised by Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett.

Working-class people will be made the "whipping boys" of a no-deal Brexit unless the Government gives clear guarantees to protect every job at risk from the deepening crisis.

Europe experienced a truly miraculous few months 30 years ago. At a precipice, blood could have flowed. The floodgates of change opened instead, writes Carl Bildt

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has been labelled “out of touch” for pushing “bonkers” policies after claiming the Government’s co-living housing plans would be similar to living in a “very trendy boutique hotel”.

A motion to reverse the closure of An Post's Cork mail centre will be debated in the Dáil tomorrow.

Fianna Fail party leader, Micheál Martin, has accused An Post of making a strategic mistake following their decision to close the Little Island Mail Centre in Co Cork with the loss of 216 jobs.

Solidarity-PBP's Ruth Coppinger is to meet the Agriculture Minister to seek clarity on his plans to ban fur farming in Ireland.

Fine Gael TDs have privately raised fears the party could be dumped out of office by a Fianna Fáil-led minority government unless it tackles a worrying poll slump before the next election.

Talks on who will become the next Lord Mayor of Cork were already underway even as the last two candidates took their seats with just a single vote separating them following a recount.

The largest public sector trade union in the country says its pledge to increase local authority funding and restore local council powers has received the backing of 10 parties fielding 1,056 local authority candidates in tomorrow’s elections.

The Government has been urged to set up a national relocation scheme to take hundreds of families out of homelessness each year.

In the third of a five-part series on the local elections, Kevin O’Neill profiles the revamped Cork City North-West district

Solidarity-People Before Profit has put forward four European election candidates to become “disturbers of the political peace”.

On the issue of climate change, the Extinction Rebellion exposes much of the Irish left, usually first up on the barricades, as a vanguard for counter-revolution.

The Government has been accused of using the Brexit crisis and cost fears as an excuse to stall vital law changes after it emerged 146 opposition bills have been delayed despite being backed by the Dáil and Seanad.

The national director of the HSE’s screening service will be quizzed today about the 33 week wait for the return of cervical screening results.

What a difference a year makes, eh Simon?

The grand hypocrisy of the so-called hard left in Ireland was exposed this week, suggests Daniel McConnell.

Presidential elections are that rare example of turkeys voting for Christmas, in the sense that except for a single bird destined to nest in the Áras, the others will be roughly stuffed before being roasted.

Trade unions, housing advocates, and community and campaign groups have come together to call for a radical shift in housing policy.

City officials were accused last night of “muddying the waters” in the Cork firefighters dispute by linking training course issues to the looming strike over the non-payment of back-money.

The digital age has seen schools “a bit like rabbits caught in the headlights” on matters around sex and consent, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The party is out of touch with Ireland’s social agenda and has a real identity crisis, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Fianna Fáil has accused Communications Minister Denis Naughten of acting like ‘ Comical Ali’ by refusing to allow an immediate review of the Government’s broadband plan because he believes it is still on track.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has revealed that he cannot support unrestricted abortion and that in his opinion the unborn deserves protection in law where the health of the mother is not at risk.

Minister Eoghan Murphy’s “affordable” mortgage scheme would not provide homes which were affordable or below the market rate, rather it would further inflate a property bubble and enrich developers.

The Government is to consider an Oireachtas report recommending a referendum be held to liberalise Ireland’s abortion laws and allow for terminations for pregnancies up to 12 weeks.

Politicians accused of caring more about their Christmas break.

More than a dozen appeals of decisions on applications for health and education supports for victims of institutional child abuse are being delayed due to a legal challenge brought by the body which administers the funding.

Latest: Micheál Martin has welcomed the appointment of Simon Coveney as Tánaiste.