Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan insists that Garda services are in place to respond to reports of domestic violence.

The nine-member group of independents have met with both Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin today and urged both leaders to “get on with it” in terms of forming a government.

Kyne lost his Dáil seat in Galway West in the general election.

Despite dire weather warnings turnout has been strong in many constituencies, with turnout exceeding 40% of the electorate in some areas.

People Before Profit has today suspended its election candidate in Galway West, Joe Loughnane, after a claim of "unacceptable" behaviour.

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Fine Gael TDs Noel Rock and Hildegarde Naughton are set to be promoted and take up Maria Bailey's Oireachtas committee places after her swing-gate fall from grace.

Politicians from all parties in Galway West have expressed opposition to a gold and silver mining bid in protected Connemara habitats.

An urgent review has been demanded into how deaths in Direct Provision are handled after a transgender woman was buried without anyone she knew present.

The former Aer Lingus worker and Independent candidate ran on a platform that included the publication of a number of health reports, improvements to local bus services and bus shelters, and the development of a light rail system in Galway.

Seven Fine Gael selection conventions are being brought forward from September to July.

Doctors who are opposed to abortion will not be forced to dispense the abortion pill, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

A Sinn Féin Senator has left the party over what he described as "serious breaches" of conduct and "unacceptable behaviour" in his constituency party.

The Dáil is set to gain two more TDs from the next election as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is a major winner in the redraw of constituency boundaries announced tonight, writes Daniel McConnell.

Enda Kenny’s junior ministerial appointments included all the elements of why some TDs are promoted or indeed overlooked, including factors such as geography, gender, age, and loyalty.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has just announced a number of new junior ministers in the Dáil.

Not many of the 2,151,293 who voted in the election were working hard on the Sunday evening of the St Patrick’s Day weekend.

Labour’s Seanad nominees will be announced today as the party’s votes are counted.

Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has announced that she is retiring from politics.

The general election offers a gorgeous insight into the importance of the county boundary in modern Irish life.

The one certainty is that Eamon O’Cuiv’s seat could be the safest in Ireland — even though politicians hate hearing that.

The Irish Postmasters’ Union has decided not to run its planned candidates in the upcoming general election.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told party delegates they must not “hand” the economy to “unknown quantities with unknown intentions” who might “wreck” any recovery after he and two other Fine Gael TDs in his constituency were selected unopposed to run in the upcoming general election.

One of the chief advisers for Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy, who played a key role in highlighting the sale of Siteserv to a firm linked to businessman Denis O’Brien, is set to run in the general election.

Renua Ireland has ruled out running finance guru Eddie Hobbs in Kildare South after children’s charity boss Jonathan Irwin announced his decision to opt out of competing there at the next general election.

Postmasters are set to run candidates in a number of Munster constituencies in the next general election, as part of their campaign for the survival of the post office network.

Renua has suffered its first defection with a councillor who joined just two months ago deciding to leave because of what he says is the party’s U-turn on water charges.

Eight candidates are preparing to contest the general election over the threat to hundreds of rural and urban post office services.

The first of eight "post office candidates" is to launch her bid for the Dáil today.

The first eight candidates to run for Renua Ireland in the upcoming general election have been confirmed.

Private solicitors working for the Director of Public Prosecutions were paid almost €6.5m last year.

People living on islands off the Galway, Mayo and Donegal coasts will cast their vote in the Local and European Elections today.

The Taoiseach said he was "naturally, personally disappointed" by the defeat of the referendum to abolish the Seanad, as attention now turns to the need for political reform.

The No side has remained ahead throughout the afternoon in the referendum to abolish the Seanad - but with a very tight margin.

In the Government’s main statement of its reasons for trashing the Seanad, Minister Richard Bruton, cites as part of the main viciousness of the institution that ‘… the final 11 seats in the Seanad are hand-picked by the Taoiseach of the day, who can parachute individuals directly into a seat without reference to any electorate, large or small.’

The country's newest senator has taken her seat in the Seanad this afternoon.