Politics is a tough game. No one can envy the past number of weeks as Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler hung on the hope of securing ...

It is time to turbocharge all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement. The scourge of intolerance has spread from being just ...

Further chaotic scenes loom in Leinster House this week over Dáil speaking time as a new Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks ...

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard.

Micheal Martin with President Michael D Higgins (Maxwell Photography/PA) The rest of the junior ministerial appointments will be made next week. Fine Gael leader Simon Harris, who became Tanaiste and ...

After receiving Dail approval, Mr Martin and his family met President Michael D Higgins at his official residence at Aras an Uachtarain, where he formally became Taoiseach during a short ceremony.

President Michael D Higgins presents seals of office to new ministers alongside new Taoiseach Micheál Martin (Pic: RollingNews.ie) It led too to a lifelong ambition of Micheál Martin to become ...

Second Irish centre-right coalition in a row Martin replaces Harris under 'rotation' deal Ireland vulnerable to Trump tariffs, corporate tax policy DUBLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Ireland's Micheál ...

Micheál Martin officially became Ireland’s taoiseach a day late after a chaotic row led to the Irish parliament being suspended. Efforts to formally name Mr Martin were abandoned amid uproar ...

Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has been elected taoiseach (Irish prime minister) for the second time after chaos in the ...

democratic and diverse republic,” said Martin, who will formally be appointed to the role later by President Michael D. Higgins before naming his cabinet. The vote had been due to come on ...