With more than three-quarters of our TDs being men, Ireland once again has one of the least balanced political systems in Europe, writes Ciairín de Buis

Irish voters can expect more than just political candidates knocking on their doors this year ahead of a general election, with activists out canvassing now too.

As a suckler farmer in West Cork, is it time for me to say goodbye to my suckler herd, having built it up for over 35 years.

Top artists have donated to Leeside’s first €50 anonymous sale for the Jack and Jill Foundation, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Our two nations may be divided by distance but are united by history.

More than 15,000 Irish schoolchildren marched out of classrooms yesterday to join a global mass movement of climate change demonstrations.

Today’s Rural Equality Bill vote in Dáil Eireann, and the fallout from remarks made by former Western Development Commission chairman Paddy McGuinness, will put further pressure on the Government to deliver more of its commitment to support regional and rural progress.

The whole country will be talking about this tomorrow.

Update 8.23pmpm: Bus Éireann says that changes are urgently required to address the company's financial situation.

It was always going to be a small protest outside Leinster House yesterday because most of those at the centre of the campaign were too ill to be there.

As transition year students at St Wolstan’s Community School, Celbridge, we are writing this letter on behalf of our year group to express our view that mental health is the poor relation within our health system.

The modern Irish Girl Guide is a feminist who not only learns lessons but also takes action

As a FF-FG coalition has to date been ruled out, Fine Gael is doing all it can to form a minority government, says Simon Coveney

Ireland’s most vulnerable children have been left behind by the Government, according to the Children’s Rights Alliance.

Not a cow milked in the Kingdom last night by the looks of things.

History was made in Cork South West with the election of the constituency’s first female TD, with Margaret Murphy O’Mahony’s win also matching the national pattern of a resurgent Fianna Fáil vote.

“I was happy to be moved by the tears of the Magdalene women.”

Figures from the world of arts and entertainment pick their annual highlights for Richard Fitzpatrick

Dublin’s Merrion Square West has retained its status as the capital’s top clamping blackspot for catching motorists without valid parking tickets.

Members of the public are being asked to join with nurses for tomorrows lunchtime protest outside the Dáil.

PEOPLE in city and country areas may hear eerie cries these nights, but be not be afraid. The screams might sound like the banshee. More than likely, however, it’s a female fox as we are in the mating season for the madra rua.

There has been widespread condemnation of the water-charges protest march incident involving Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton. 

Independent TD Catherine Murphy and youth organisation We’re Not Leaving have joined the Right2Water campaign.

Seventy-eight pairs of women’s shoes and 10 pairs of children’s shoes were placed outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday.

Incredibly for an island divided along religious lines for almost a century, nothing has been proposed by the constitutional convention around the separation of Church and State.

A march in aid of suicide prevention is taking place in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin says he wants to see all mother-and-baby homes investigated by an independent commission of inquiry with full judicial powers.

The International Naturist Congress will be held here in September, but Irish law on ‘offending modesty’ is so broad it isolates our few brave nudists, says Ellie O’Byrne

Cannabis campaigner Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is on his way from Dáil Éireann to Brussels by virtue of a sensational win in the Midlands North-West constituency.

Whether you take the rain from your roof or out-buildings, it’s careless not to use God’s gift.

TODAY, 17,000 teachers who are members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland begin industrial action.

As the time-worn adage goes, people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones. If ever he doubted that truism, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has learned how dangerous a pastime stone-throwing can be.

Deputy Luke “Ming” Flanagan has become hopelessly ensnared in his own hypocritical web of deception.