A second Dáil vote for Taoiseach is set to go ahead on Thursday as parties continue to meet and debate policies in an attempt to form a government.

Controversially, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has been excluded from both tonight’s debate and the final debate before the country goes to the polls.

Crime and health look set to be the issues that dominate on day three of the general election campaign.

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.

Fine Gael has agreed to drop Wexford candidate Verona Murphy for the general election with fears she could damage the party if allowed run.

But the Government will not be proceeding with a nationwide ban on smoky coal

A strengthening of the right to housing in the Constitution and strict limits on how long a family spends in emergency accommodation are among fresh demands to alleviate homelessness.

The Justice Minister has issued a statement on direct provision services and supports for international protection applicants.

Independent TD Noel Grealish has been accused of “disgraceful racism” after suggesting money being sent from Ireland by Nigerian migrants could be the proceeds of crime or fraud.

Two Opposition TDs have gone to the High Court to see an injunction against Ceann Comhairle Sean O Fearghail over his decision to disallow a new bill due to be debated in the Dáil today.

Business Minister Heather Humphreys is under pressure to explain why she and her department were given no advance warning about significant jobs losses in Cork and Clare.

The Taoiseach has admitted he does not know why the State’s chief procurement officer, Paul Quinn , resigned from the development board of the National Children’s Hospital.

Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty is the latest minister to be subject to scrutiny about voting in the Dáil.

Speed van operators are taking the action claiming they're confined for up to 11 hours at a time in the vans without toilet breaks.

Boris Johnson claimed the “paralysed” Parliament will keep “sabotaging” Brexit negotiations as he addressed the Commons.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said he is "very concerned" about remarks made by a number of TDs on asylum seekers in recent days.

Comments about immigrants by Independent TDs Noel Grealish and Michael Collins have been branded as “very dangerous” by Labour leader Brendan Howlin.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said farmers and other businesses will not “wake up to a big surprise” over checks at the UK border in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin shrugs at the idea that he may someday be offered the role of Tánaiste, but his party could be the linchpin in any new coalition if there is a snap election here.

The embattled British prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland arrives in Dublin on Monday morning.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than go to Brussels to ask for a further delay to Brexit.

Rees-Mogg’s attempt to drag Parnell into the Brexit debate was a squalid ploy to exploit anti-Irish sentiment in Britain and cling to power, writes Ryle Dwyer

Latest: Boris Johnson has confirmed his desire to hold a general election on October 15 – as he looks set to be defeated on a crunch vote on his plan.

Boris Johnson used a statement in Downing Street to call on MPs to resist an attempt to block a no-deal Brexit.

Mr Martin said he wanted to make it "absolutely clear" his party believes new British prime minister Boris Johnson is at fault for the diplomatic stand-off after a private phone call with Mr Dooley in which he ordered his colleague to tone down the rhetoric.

Ignoring health service workers who are set to strike and their pay demands is "dangerous", Labour warns.

Patients due to undergo a procedure tomorrow will have to wait to hear from their local hospital to find out if their surgery can go ahead as up to 10,000 health support workers prepare to strike.

The assault on Melania Geymonat, 28, and her girlfriend Chris happened on the top of a double-decker London night bus when they refused to kiss on a bus.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar acknowledged ex-Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins was "treated badly" by a previous Dáil public accounts committee during its pursuit of serious financial issues at the organisation.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has said his party will have 20 more seats after the local elections but conceded none of his three MEP candidates will be elected.

Fine Gael is refusing to ban evictions into homelessness because it is a party of landlords, the Dáil has heard.

The Government has been accused of having a "mind-numbing lack of ambition" when it comes to housing.

Opposition calls to renationalise the former state telephone company, Eir, and have it run the National Broadband Plan would cost up to €9 billion, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

The €3bn State investment in the controversial National Broadband Plan has been labelled “the worst deal ever seen” after it emerged that the private operator chosen to deliver it will only invest €200m equity in it.

Families and businesses in the most isolated parts of rural Ireland may have to pay extra fees out of their own pocket under the Government’s €3bn broadband plan.

The Government's ambitious broadband plan will still come in six times over budget, a decade late and without any guarantees the State will ultimately own the service, the opposition has warned.

The Cabinet is expected to approve the final bidder for the contract to roll out high-speed broadband across the country at its meeting today.

The Labour Leader is hitting out at Fine Gael over the spiralling cost of rolling out rural broadband.

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.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney will travel to the North tomorrow for talks with the region’s main political parties amid growing pressure for them to form a new coalition government in the aftermath of Lyra McKee’s murder.

The Government has been accused of being “on the side of cuckoo funds” rather than struggling families who are trying to find homes.