Sinn Féin Youth Affairs spokesperson Senator Kathryn Reilly has said that "budget 2014 gives young people just one guarantee - emigration".

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

Sexism is “alive and well” in the Dáil, according to female parliamentarians, who said the “macho” and “laddish” culture must change if more women are to enter politics.

Picture the scene: A group of workers gather for a staff meeting.

Sinn Féin is hoping it can build its support in the West of Ireland by holding its annual ard fheis in the Taoiseach’s home town of Castlebar this weekend.

We, the undersigned, wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights.

About 70% of businesses believe that passing and ratifying the fiscal treaty will be good for their work.

The Department of Defence is to rent military training facilities in towns where it is controversially closing army barracks, in a move described as “baffling”.

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.

Political Reporter Juno McEnroe looks at the winners and losers of the Seanad elections