There is no urgency from the Secretary of State in attempts to restore the Stormont government, Michelle O’Neill has said.

The people of Northern Ireland have sent a clear message that they want powersharing back up and running, the Taoiseach has said.

Leo Varadkar says he has concerns about Sinn Féin's "economic and European policies in particular that we think will be major departure from what made our country successful".

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said her party’s success in Northern Ireland’s local government elections is a message from the people that Stormont must return.

By 3pm on Friday, the party was leading the way with 29 councillors elected ahead of the DUP with 18 seats

Counting is under way at all 11 count centres

An elderly woman in County Laois has had to use money set aside for her recently deceased husband’s headstone to pay an electricity bill.

Web Summit boss takes to Twitter to vent about 'corruption' in Irish politics 

Speaking during a visit to the Balmoral Show, Ms O’Neill insisted her election message is “one of positivity”

Social Democrats leader claims that entire industries are taking advantage of cost-of-living crisis

The republican party will win 29.8% of first preference votes in this month’s council elections, an opinion poll for the Irish News suggests

THE Government’s approach to housing isn’t perfect, but Sinn Féin and others need to realise that constant moaning won’t deliver a single home.

Mr Adams won a Supreme Court appeal in 2020 over historical convictions for two attempts to escape the Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland in the 1970s

“I am an Irish republican. I also recognise there are many people on our island for whom the coronation is a hugely important occasion.”

Unlike Gerry Adams, who took a more collaborative approach when it came to appointments, it was a 'take it or leave it' offer from Mary Lou McDonald

People Before Profit is to boycott the historic speech by Mr Biden to both houses of the Oireachtas over objections to his foreign policy

Some 500 people marched up a winding country road to mark the centenary of the death of Irish republican Liam Lynch at his home under sloping mountains near Anglesborough, Co Limerick.

Ms McDonald said she would not rule any potential coalition partners out following the next general election, including current Government parties

"If the Government plan on housing works, we will turn it around," said a Fine Gael source after a new poll put the party on its lowest-ever level of support.

WHAT was it all about? This week Gerry Adams reflected on the many benefits of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).

Mr Adams also accused Government of being “asleep at the wheel” in terms of its responsibilities to the North, and said Mr Martin should do what victims are asking for, for the Irish Government to take an interstate case against the British government

Some balance needs to be brought to the discussion over the past number of weeks about the lifting of the eviction ban. Sinn Féin deputy leader Pearse Doherty’s claim that the “Government had voted to make people homeless” is just a step too far.

Easter recess will be a break from all the faux outrage and attempted public shaming

Unsurprisingly, Mr Adams’ remarks, while initially conciliatory and considered, also hid a big stick

Mary Lou McDonald has made 10 changes as part of her reshuffle, however, housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin and health spokesperson David Cullinane will remain in the same positions

Criminals will be stopped from using legal tactics to hold onto their property under new a range of powers being rolled out to beef up the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

The latest poll puts Ms Carins' approval rating at 45% — two points higher than both Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Tánaiste Micheál Martin

Ivana Bacik's plan for a million homes in a decade is so ambitious it is hard to take it seriously

Losing the vote will mean a severe embarrassment for the coalition

Currently, a garda sergeant based in Macroom, around 20 minutes drive away, is helping to cover the area

Responding to Holly Cairns' promotion, Mary Lou McDonald says it is 'incredibly positive' to see another woman in leadership role

Though admitting to 'inaccuracies' and 'sloppiness' in Sipo reports, Sinn Féin's president insists her party's books are clean

When asked if he would call on his colleagues to stop objecting to developments, Eoin Ó Broin said he would not.

Ms O’Hare died on Friday at the age of 80

The party no longer espouses the socialist republic for which the provisional movement killed so many — but it needs to take ownership of its own history

Unionists have previously reacted angrily to any suggestion of Irish involvement in the governance of Northern Ireland in the absence of devolution

Right now, this country has never been more receptive to the idea of a left-wing government that doesn’t include Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael — but can the left in Irish politics get its act together to form a cohesive government?

Who doesn’t share Adi Roche’s concerns about another Chernobyl — ‘Ukraine war sees Chernobyl nuclear risk back on centre stage’ (Irish Examiner, February 24)?Although the Ohio train wreck bears comparison; the Fukoshima disasater, obviously, and ...

The new planning bill is moving through the Oireachtas at a fair old clip. For the last few weeks, it has been subjected to what is called pre-legislative scrutiny.

Former Sinn Féin MEP and presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada has described her decision to leave the “vicious game” of politics as a “huge relief” after stepping down as the party’s general election hope for Cork North West.

It could have been a lot worse in Ballyfermot last week. The garda struck with a missile in the side of his head could have been blinded in his left eye if the object hit him a few inches to the side.

The massacre at the townland outside Tralee was the outrage that came to define, for many, the brutality of the civil war

The opposition has labelled the Government's cost of living package as "insufficient", with one Labour TD saying it was as "targeted as a (Liverpool striker) Darwin Nunez shot".

A message to Stephen Donnelly, Leo Varadkar, and Micheál Martin. Spare us your sorrow. Your expressions of regret. Spare us your faux concern for the weak and those who have been so badly screwed over by the State on your watch.