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

Labour leader Brendan Howlin, too, called for a progressive alliance of the left and has called for such parties to agree a “common agenda” if they are in government together.

The British Prime Minister broke with a tradition set by his recent predecessors and voted at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, at around 8.15am.

There are big issues that demand attention at this election. But one topic rules the roost, says Michael Clifford

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that a leaked document, marked “official, sensitive”, had provided the “cold hard evidence” that Boris Johnson had been “misleading” people about his Brexit deal.

Cork County Council has paid a private operator more than €1.7m over five years to a private operator for parking enforcement in a single town.

Labour party chairman Jack O'Connor has called for parties on the left to join forces as a general election looms in the New Year.

EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan has said there will not be a no-deal Brexit, despite swirling uncertainty about the prospect of a general election in Britain.

The EU 27 accepted the ‘principle of an extension’ and their work will continue in the ‘coming days’.

British prime minister Boris Johnson is to seek to fast-track legislation to ratify his Brexit deal through the Commons in just three days as he attempts to avoid another delay to Britain’s departure from the EU.

However, Latvian prime minister Krisjanis Karins also said: "To open up the entire agreement I think that is very unrealistic, certainly in the short time frame."

As Cillian Murphy and co return for season five of Peaky Blinders, Georgia Humphreys takes a sneak peek at what’s in store for a series that moves the action up to 1929.

The Government has rejected calls for the appointment of New Zealander Gabriel Makhlouf as new Central Bank Governor to be re-examined, saying it cannot be undone.

Next week a new British Prime Minister will be elected, with both candidates saying they aren't afraid of a crash-out Brexit.

Donald Trump has called Sadiq Khan "a disaster" in response to violence in London, where three men were killed in separate attacks in less than 24 hours.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he will miss Theresa May and warned a 'dangerous period' for Ireland lays ahead.

Labour is demanding to know what the consortium leading the €5bn broadband project will put up front as the party warned that a tribunal may rake over the costs and deal for the project in a decade.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has accused rival left-wing parties and Independents of acting like they are part of "the United Nations" instead of trying to help their communities on local councils.

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.

New laws designed to tackle revenge pornography and upskirting are welcome but the government needs to include proper sanctions in any measures, domestic abuse charities have warned.

She broke down barriers in a divided community in Northern Ireland, mourners at her funeral were told.

EU leaders have agreed to extend Brexit until Halloween night, despite French fears allowing the UK to stay past June will risk sabotaging the EU and could "jeopardise" the bloc's entire future.

EU leaders were pushing to offer Britain a nine month or one year flexible Brexit extension last night, despite French fears allowing the UK to stay past June will “jeopardise” the EU’s entire future.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin is confident that his party will bounce back from a "dreadful" showing in the local elections in Cork in 2014.

German chancellor Angela Merkel says she will try "until the last hour" to prevent a no-deal Brexit and to ensure Britain does not crash out of the EU.

British prime minister Theresa May has lost her bid to get parliamentary support for the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. The vote announced in Westminster saw her latest effort defeated by 344 votes to 286 - a majority of 58.

Prosecutor Kevin Christie said: “As he was struck he heard a male voice shooting, ‘Respect the vote.’”

Jeremy Corbyn said it is right that members of the Armed Forces are held to account for incidents during the Troubles after a British soldier was charged with murder over Bloody Sunday.

The pound rallied to a four-week high on Tuesday following reports that Britain's impending departure from the European Union could be delayed.

The Taoiseach should issue a public apology to families of the victims of the Whiddy Island disaster and those deaths should be ruled unlawful an organiser of events to mark 40 years since the tragedy said in remarks which drew a standing ovation from those gathered.

The biggest danger we face is not a straightforward revival of fascism, but rather a creeping shift in traditional conservatism towards the extreme populist right, says Michael Burleigh.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has held "frank" crisis talks with the chief executive of Irish Ferries' parent company in a bid to prevent the closure of the Rosslare to Cherbourg route next spring.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, responding to Theresa May's survival in the no confidence vote, said: "Tonight's vote makes no difference to the lives of our people.

Tonie Walsh (58) says he’s been making a show of himself his whole life, but at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, he’s getting up on stage to do so.

Labour’s olive branch offer of support for like-minded opposition parties has been snubbed by the Social Democrats and Greens — despite an appeal to maximise “progressive” voices in the Dáil.

The brother of a republican prisoner who died on hunger strike has opened up about the bizarre events surrounding the commandeering of his brother’s body by the government en route to his funeral.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin cannot drag out growing demands for him to step down until next month and must address the leadership question at a special meeting this month.

The minister for health, Simon Harris, published a strategy document — a 10-year plan to reform the health service — last week. 

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