Mairia Cahill's been nominated to contest the Seanad bye-election for the Labour Party.

There has been support from across the political spectrum for popular Labour Senator Jimmy Harte, who is being treated for serious head injuries following what is believed to have been a freak accident.

Senator Jimmy Harte is seriously ill after been discovered on a city street with head injuries in the early hours of the morning.

Senators who demanded voters sweep away the “dysfunctional” upper house insist they still have a mandate to serve in the chamber they discredited.

An embarrassing defeat for the Government in the Seanad has been blamed on a “misunderstanding” after four Labour senators failed to turn up for a vote on proposed changes to upward only rents.

The Government suffered its first embarrassing defeat in the Seanad last night as Labour senators failed to turn up for a vote on proposed changes to upward-only rents.

Fine Gael lost two more Oireachtas members from its parliamentary party yesterday as two senators voted against the abortion legislation as it passed through the Upper House.

Plans to sweep away the Seanad have left Labour openly divided.

Donegal senator Jimmy Harte releases a statement in praise of Alex Ferguson.

A Labour party senator has quit social media after being targeted by internet trolls.

The last batch of one of Ireland’s most famous sweets has rolled off the production line, bringing an end to almost 100 years of tradition.

A leading priest has told his parishioners not to pay the €100 household tax.

The Polish woman at the centre of a controversial Irish Independent article has said she was “shocked” that the badly translated piece was published in the first place.

A Labour Party Senator in Donegal has issued an apology for comments made on Twitter amid controversy over his contribution to a newspaper story.

The Polish Ambassador to Ireland has written to the Irish Independent concerning a “potentially inflammatory” article published by the newspaper today.

IT was a story to make the blood boil. Last Tuesday, it was all over the daily newspapers. For the remainder of the week, it filled the airwaves and newsprint.

A FIANNA FÁIL senator has urged the Data Protection Commissioner to investigate how private details of a family in receipt of social welfare benefits were leaked to a fellow senator.

A SENATOR has urged that a cap on social welfare payments be introduced after it emerged a family of four is claiming over €90,000 a year.

THIRTEEN recently elected members of the Seanad are to share a windfall of almost €440,000.

A FORMER leader of the Seanad brought a close to the election count by imploring newly elected members to fight for the continued retention of the Upper House.

Sinn Féin's Padraig MacLochlainn is top after the first count in donegal North East, but nobody has been elected yet.

The returning officer in Donegal North East has announced the commencement of counting of votes for Padraig MacLoclainn, SF and Joe McHugh, FG, the top two candidates.

LEADING political analyst Sean Donnelly has predicted Fianna Fáil could lose all seats in the two Co Donegal constituencies, including Tánaiste Mary Coughlan’s.

THE Labour Party needs to overcome a near impossible numbers game to fulfil its ambition to be the largest party in the next Dáil.

The son of a former Fine Gael TD is to be the latest recruit for the Labour Party.

A MYSTERY figure from Clare intercounty GAA, with national prominence, is being lined up for a fight to win back a Dáil seat in the constituency.

The bodies of a young mother and her seven-year-old daughter have been discovered in a house in Co Donegal, gardaí said today.

A PHOTOGRAPH of legendary broadcaster, Gay Byrne, has prompted a bitter row between political rivals.

A Donegal politician hopes to continue a 36-year unbroken family tradition of serving local constituents in the Dáil.

A former head of election strategy for Fine Gael in Donegal has accused the party of rigging a selection convention in the county.