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Voters react to first TV debate with comments on the performances of presidential election candidates

Online political campaigns likely to be affected as Meta plans to stop running such advertising in EU from early this month

Labour TD says a number of countries have sent naval vessels to protect the 500-person strong flotilla carrying humanitarian aid

Senator relaxes at book launch as failed presidential hopeful vents in blame game

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael, Jim Gavin of Fianna Fáil and Independent Catherine Connolly have assembled experienced backroom teams

Postponement of Scannal followed due diligence to comply with election guidelines, RTÉ says

Two-way battle for presidency between Humphreys and Connolly after Gavin ends campaign

Party’s support may yet prove decisive for Independent TD’s presidential campaign

Galway West TD says ‘coalition of left’ backing her campaign ‘a welcome change for Irish politics’

The deadline for candidates seeking to contest the election to file their nomination papers is September 24th

Patients advised of file reviews 11 weeks after HSE raised it with department, Labour’s Ged Nash says

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty cited rents, student fees and property prices as problems faced by workers

Help needed amid rising energy bills and ‘cost-of-living crisis’, say Sinn Féin and Labour

The Government’s shift to the right should offer them an opportunity

Social Democrats suspended TD for giving incorrect information about sale of Palantir shares

With the major parties reconvening for the next Dáil term, the cut and thrust of the presidential race takes centre stage

Independents on Kerry County Council believe they may have enough votes to back a candidate

Candidates must be nominated by four county councils if going down this route to get their name on the ballot

Students have passed their exams, but Government has failed to act on housing them

As families have become smaller and household wealth has risen, inherited wealth can drive growing inequality in our society

Plus: What Michael D Higgins really thinks about Bob Geldof, celeb spotting and some Irish thought leadership

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Tipperary representative revels in McCarthy Cup manoeuvres at party think-in despite leader’s ire at refusal to back Catherine Connolly’s Áras run

Party leader Ivana Bacik says conversations with Alan Kelly private after TD indicates reluctance to back Catherine Connolly’s candidacy

Is a route to presidential nomination via the Oireachtas open to anyone else? Theoretically, yes

Dublin City councillors react to plans for annual permit increases likely to prove controversial

Independent TD’s bid for presidency won unanimous backing of People Before Profit party on Sunday

Tipperary TD addresses ‘elephant in the room’ regarding criticism of party and Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

A party that doesn’t want local property tax for anyone but wants free third-level fees for all isn’t a left party

Idealists are not naive by definition but, when they are, they are ripe for exploitation as propaganda stooges

Total net wealth of households here rose to record €1.25tn in first quarter, new figures show

Former Dublin football manager ‘ticks a lot of party’s boxes’ and ‘there is a sense he could win’, say sources

Academic Deirdre Heenan says ‘watch this space’ when asked about presidential ambitions

Presidency candidate has had ‘very positive’ response from Sinn Féin members but respects party’s process around contesting election

Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives

Candidates may mean well in vowing to act on big social issues, but the reality of being president is different

Members of two pension schemes backed proposed changes to schemes this week

Party grandee ‘very disappointed’ to see Labour supporting Catherine Connolly in presidential election