Dáil Éireann

Election 2024: While manifestos should be taken with a large pinch of salt by the electorate, they are the raw ingredients for government formation talks

Inhabitants of the small Co Mayo island face unique challenges, including the often dangerous trip back and forth from the mainland

Housing, funding for special education and transport preoccupy voters in `The People’s Republic of Dublin South Central’

Election 2024: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin manifestos all contain generous ‘good times’ spending

Election 2024: Social Democrats pledges €1 offpeak public transport fares and 50,000 affordable purchase homes if in government

Election 2024: Party plans to tax the wealthy, increase minimum wage and cut USC for many under €56bn spending plan

Fianna Fáil to aim to reduce class sizes at primary level in education policy promise

Election 2024: Social Democrats deputy questions rival parties’ pledges to deliver public service investment and tax cuts simultaneously

Sinn Féin leader says moment ‘where history meets opportunity’ has arrived, encouraging voters to remove Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

The Irish Times readers’ panel give their responses to leaders’ debate

WhichCandidate voting aid tool allows voters to find out who they agree with on a range of policies

The debate between 10 party leaders was at its most energetic when dwelling on the cost-of-living and the economy

Debate meandered for over two hours with the Simon and Micheál tag-team combining to stick it to the Shinners and anyone else who threatened to wreck their brotherly buzz

Taoiseach argues that criminal acquittal over attack and not civil court damages is the relevant test

Among Quare Clare’s chief concerns are rising intolerance, public transport in rural areas and the failure to enact hate-speech legislation

Ten party leaders set out their stall on 10th day of general election campaign

Simon Harris and Micheál Martin find common ground in clashes with Mary Lou McDonald

Fianna Fáil proposes Ireland’s first national security and intelligence agency, while Fine Gael wants all projects worth more than €100m to be overseen by new Department of Infrastructure

Simon Harris’s party has promised €7bn-worth of tax cuts, €2.5bn pension increases and a range of public sector spending

Opposition party reacts to FF over record destitution, rising house prices and ‘out of control’ rents

A widely circulated video shows the Fine Gael candidate striking Breen White several times in the head

Pearse Doherty launched six-point plan to tackle ‘the things we don’t even know about yet’

In an unprecedented situation in Irish politics, the party leader is due to give birth just days before the general election

General election: That balancing act and tension - between a headlong rush of ambition and credibility - will be a feature of the rest of the campaign

Political opponents accuse party of seeking to buy general election with expensive spending commitments

Paschal tells the faithful ‘our economy is currently in a great place’

Election campaign marked by uneventful first week with no breakout issue or unforeseen controversy upsetting best-laid political plans

Labour sets out six ‘key missions’ party will have if part of next government, relating to issues including housing, climate and health

Election 2024: Party pledges to introduce an SUV tax based on the weight of new petrol and diesel cars which it says will ‘tackle car and SUV bloat’

Fianna Fáil candidate criticises Sinn Féin for not publishing manifesto in advance of Monday’s leaders’ debate

John McGahon was sued in High Court for assault and battery by Breen White following incident outside Dundalk pub in 2018

Taoiseach rejects suggestion that plans for tax cuts, pension increases and other outlays like ‘throwing snuff at a wake’

Officials at Leinster House asked in July for more bike spaces for the complex, saying demand for existing stands was very high

Football supporters hold a range of views at their teams’ playoff in Tallaght

A record 248 women have put themselves forward seeking to take a Dáil seat, up 53% on total for 2020

President Michael D Higgins records an LP; the Oireachtas spends more taxpayers’ cash on something it’s not clear we need; and an ex-rugby star encounters some unwanted wingers

Jordanian-Palestinian man approached by church who told him he would be given a certificate that would help with his refugee status

Harris strikes conciliatory note saying parties worked well together in Coalition despite increased election campaign tensions

Party leader says he would not speak to Fine Gael about forming government after general election but would be open to talks with Fianna Fáil

Election 2024: Voters in this Dublin barber’s are leaving it longer to get a haircut as the cost of living increases. How will that affect their vote?