Sinn Féin has achieved its highest ever level of popular support and holds a commanding lead over the two other main parties

Sinn Féin leader says the Citizens' Assembly needs to be triggered by the Taoiseach — 'this process needs to be led by Dublin'

Far right candidate Marine Le Pen has built considerable support, but Emmanuel Macron's strongest move during Le Débat was to focus on Europe, environment, and values

When Labour struggles to find relevance, we are lucky that Ivana Bacik may now become leader

Junior minister Peter Burke has also emerged as a potential future leader

There is high degree of concern about the criminal investigation into Leo Varadkar’s leaking of the GP contract

An ominous sense of looming dread has begun to engulf the Government about the year ahead

Hugo MacNeill, who is married to Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, played 37 times for Ireland 

Envisaged to have a hand in everything from transport to enterprise, policing to aviation policy, the Limerick mayor is a real chance to deliver major change to the city and county

Party has never been in a stronger position electorally

Táoiseach Micheál Martin said the commission will play a fundamental role in redefining the party’s future

The political eye-poking continued this week, with Leo Varadkar getting into yet another contretemps with Micheál Martin, writes Alison O’Connor.

Varadkar is under fire from his Fine Gael colleagues as a summer of blunders leads to the party's popularity plummeting

Far from the unified, energetic party that Varadkar took charge of in 2017, the Fine Gael of 2021 is deeply lethargic, demoralised, and fraying with internal recrimination at a level not seen since Enda Kenny’s final year

"Quotas are there to speed up the essential change we're just too prejudiced, institutionalised and self-serving to make"

It is all a matter of interpretation, something our politicians seem to be very skilled at

The forthcoming directly-elected mayor must have the power and responsibility to deliver for the people of Limerick, says Conor Sheehan

Following the defeat in the by-election last week, the Taoiseach is to face angry TDs and senators over why the party fared so poorly

A seat previously held by a young, high-profile ally of the leader is now held by the opposition

The stunning win by Ivana Bacik is in itself a story worth telling, but the fallout for the three government parties cannot be ignored

Despite her party languishing on 3% nationally, the renowned legal scholar, lecturer, and senator has finally reached the promised land of Dáil Éireann

Higher-than-expected turnout in many areas could be a major factor in determining who gets the seat vacated by former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy in April

Support for Leo Varadkar’s party has risen by one per cent since last month’s poll, just enough to narrowly edge past Mary Lou McDonald’s party who remain at 29%

Brexit has pushed the Irish unity conversation to centre-stage and unionists are in need of someone to fight their corner, rather than fight among themselves

Poll shows Sinn Féin now commands most support of any party in the State

At another time in history, the fake polling revelations might be not such a big deal, but right now liberal democracy is not in a good place and any erosion of trust takes on far great significance than might otherwise have been the case

In the wake of the phoney pollsters revelations, the minister promises legislation by the end of the year 

Cuffe used around 20 volunteers with a fake ballot paper to do a pre-election poll, pretending to be an independent research company

All three Coalition partners and the main opposition party are now lined up in a circular firing squad over phoney polling

Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and Sinn Féin have all admitted their party members would poll the public during elections while hiding the fact they worked for a political party.

The Fianna Fáil TD claims they have proof of the opposition party "telling, encouraging and training personnel on how to lie".