Glenveagh Homes and Ballymore Developments have secured planning permission for more than 330 residential units at two separate sites in Dublin.

Ruth Coppinger, the former Solidarity TD who campaigned to abolish the Seanad, is now seeking to be elected there.

A basic income should be paid to every citizen over 18, whether they work or not, and there should be no limit, except taxation, on how much more money they choose to earn.

Former Labour leader Joan Burton, who lost her seat in the election, has said that Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is most likely to be Taoiseach in a government supported by Fine Gael and the Green Party.

"After considerable reflection, I have taken the decision not to allow my name to go forward," Ged Nash announced this morning.

It's been a “change” election in so many ways, but one certainty we cling to is that we’re stuck in the same old territory when it comes to the election of women to the Dáil.

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

Labour leader Brendan Howlin conceded it was a “bad day” for his party.

The party has not been forgiven for the austerity measures of its coalition with Fine Gael and will struggle to hold its seven seats.

Daniel McConnell rules the roost over five post-election scenarios

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

The Green Party's bright young star, Saoirse McHugh, has revealed some pretty radical ideas as to her ideal vision of how Ireland should be run.

TDs and Senators have claimed over €37,000 buying top of the range phones over the past two years.

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

With the Dáil set to return later this month for the last session, those hoping for a summer general election might as well forget about it.

Mary Williams from Tallaght joined other bingo players outside Leinster House to protest against proposed gambling legislation.

Legal threats from coal firms have stopped the Government from introducing a nationwide ban on smoky coal which environmental activists and opposition parties are demanding.

Former Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has called for the new scheme to enrol private sector workers automatically in a pension scheme from 2022 not to be privatised.

There are mounting calls for the Dáil's electronic voting to be suspended pending the outcome of an inquiry into TD's voting on behalf of colleagues.

Opinion polls leading to cut-and-run elections are the road to ruin. That a tranche of parliamentary opinion in Fine Gael is hot to trot means it is time to open the window and let in cold air.

Fianna Fáil’s Declan Breathnach claimed that differentials in VAT and taxes on commodities will drive people to buy cheaper alcohol across the border.

Catherine Corless, the historian who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal, has called on the Government to release the names of more than 900 children who died in Cork’s Bessborough Mother and Baby home.

Some children are more equal than others.

The Central Bank needs to be given stronger powers to sanction banks, according to the chair of the Oireachtas Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform Committee.

The developer of the long-delayed Event Centre in Cork has submitted a redesign of the project to the local authority in a bid to allay the concerns of City Council planners.

If you were Paschal Donohoe, you would need news like this like a hole in the head.

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has faced criticism for not leaving open the option of a second budget in the case of a no-deal Brexit.

Gardaí have yet to make changes to the way they police public order incidents despite the failings highlighted by the Jobstown water protests and North Frederick Street eviction incidents.

Over €39.82 million remains unpaid to the Revenue Commissioners in taxes, penalties and interest from published tax defaulters in last two years.

A Labour TD has criticised proposed adoption legislation as it does not give complete access to birth information.

Owners of €1m-plus penthouse homes built since 2013 will be at least €16,000 better off as they have escaped having to pay the local property tax (LPT) until 2021 at the earliest, because of a gap in the law.

Labour senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has apologised to his Labour colleagues for suggesting Brendan Howlin and Joan Burton need to make way for “generational renewal” within the party.

Voters have lost faith in FF and FG but after Friday’s ballots the left remains as far away from power in Ireland as it ever has been. Gary Murphy examines why this is the case.

It reallly is the new political frontier. Richard Bruton, the minister who has responsibility for policy on climate change, was questioned by Labour’s Joan Burton this week on whether he had become a vegetarian or a vegan.

Children in Dublin 15 have seen men with guns less than 100 yards from their school gate.

The recent wildfire in Killarney National Park has been described as “a violent crime” by Josepha Madigan, the Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht minister.

This would follow on the success of The Rising commemorations and other events which had marked women's place in Irish history.

It has emerged yesterday's shooting outside a school in West Dublin follows weeks of tension in the area.

A British request for a Brexit deadline extension as well as consequences of a chaotic no-deal will be discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and French President Emmanuel Macron today.

News of the delay came as Tánaiste Simon Coveney expressed his ‘fear’ that frustrations over the ongoing delays would see the Event Centre become a ‘political football’ ahead of May’s local elections.

Our lone parents have the second highest rate of severe, persistent poverty among lone parents across the 15 most developed EU countries

Politicians and campaigners have strongly condemned a protest group for targeting Simon Harris at his family home as the health minister faces ongoing demands to resign over the deepening children’s hospital and nurses strike scandals.

The country’s top official for public expenditure has been sharply criticised for snubbing a request to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee which is investigating cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital.