Greens to lose €850,000 a year, Social Democrats and Aontú to gain in new funding allocation
Exchequer funding given to nine parties obtaining at least 2 per cent of first preferences
Seanad Éireann
Labour councillor takes High Court challenge over Seanad vote count
Angela Feeney was eliminated on the 23rd count for the agriculture panel
Evanne Ní Chuilinn tells Seanad that brother’s struggle with addiction led her to politics
Making her maiden Seanad speech, former sports broadcaster says brother would be ‘very proud’
Five Sinn Féin TDs write to Tánaiste demanding Dáil statement on Senator Martin Conway
Five female politicians ask Simon Harris to explain why Senator Conway paid €10,000 to charity after allegedly acting inappropriately to female colleague
Tánaiste says it was ‘appropriate’ that senator resigned Fine Gael whip after arrest
Circumstances that led to Martin Conway’s resignation were distressing and there will be ‘a full investigation’, Simon Harris says
New senators set out stalls as Mark Daly of FF elected unopposed as Cathaoirleach
Almost all 60 senators spoke on first day of new Seanad as Irish unity, disability and housing among platforms for future debate
Fine Gael senator Martin Conway resigns from parliamentary party after being arrested while intoxicated
Taoiseach says he only learned of the incident involving visually impaired senator on Sunday morning
How Senator Aubrey McCarthy befriended notorious murderer the Black Widow
Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’
Who is Evanne Ní Chuilinn? From RTÉ sports broadcaster to Fine Gael Senator
The former RTÉ sports broadcaster is one of Fine Gael’s five nominees for the Seanad
Evanne Ní Chuilinn resigns from RTÉ upon nomination as Fine Gael Senator
Seven women and four men appointed to Seanad by Taoiseach to fill remaining 11 seats
Greater gender balance expected to feature in Taoiseach’s 11 nominees to Seanad
Former broadcasters Alison Comyn and Gráinne Seoige tipped as possible nominees
The Irish Times view on Sinn Féin: back to basics is not enough
It is not clear how to address the conundrum that confronted the party at the last election
Seanad election finishes with 20 women among 49 winners
Focus on Taoiseach’s 11 nominations for more female representation
Marathon five-day Seanad count ends with women taking 20 of 49 seats
Full list of elected members includes 20 women before Taoiseach’s nominees are added
Long wait for Sinn Féin poll topper to secure Seanad seat
Former TDs Alan Farrell (FG) and Matt Shanahan (Ind) fail in bids to win seats
Seanad election: Aontú and Social Democrats win first seats in Seanad, Labour loses by tenth of a vote
Social Democrats set to win first Seanad seat; Fine Gael gains a seat as Fianna Fáil down two
Seanad election: Aubrey McCarthy wins final TCD seat after vote recheck, with Chu losing out
Greens win Seanad seat on vocational Agricultural panel as Noonan tops poll
The Irish Times view on Seanad electoral reform: still indefensible
The old system was in many ways an affront to democracy, and the new one is not much better
Storm Éowyn’s devastating aftermath overshadows Ireland’s political turbulence
From Seanad election latest to the neverending Dáil speaking rights row, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up
Seanad election: Recount considered for final seat on Trinity panel after Lynn Ruane and Tom Clonan are returned
Counting underway for two university panels for six university seats
Ex-TDs, Seanad ‘lifers’ and well-known faces in election battle
Who to watch out for as counting begins to fill seats in Upper House
Lynn Ruane and Tom Clonan re-elected on Trinity panel as Seanad counting nears end
Three outgoing Senators on NUI panel - Michael McDowell, Rónán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins - are returned
Eleven politicians get combined payments of €25,500 to improve security at homes or offices
Security allowance scheme was overhauled in late 2024 to increase cap from €5,000 amid continued concern over safety of TDs and senators
Last Poll and Chorus – Frank McNally on the end of 400 years of Trinity College elections
Dublin University can claim to have elected Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy, or a bit of him
Turnout of less than 25% expected among college graduates for Seanad vote
Counting gets under way in Trinity and RDS of votes for six of 60 seats in Upper House
Donald Trump’s expansionary plans: first we take Greenland, then we take Ballsbridge
Plus: US multinationals lobby for docklands voting rights for staff; John Banville’s bedroom antics; and a Seanad hopeful’s Tommy Cooper impression
Their day has not come: Sinn Féin prepares for another five years in opposition
As Sinn Féin heads into next Dáil, it faces a crucial moment in its quest for growth, power and delivering on its mission of seismic change
Fisheries organisation has a proposed Seanad nominee rejected for second election in a row
Irish South & West Fish Producers Organisation boss Patrick Murphy claims process is ‘not democracy by any stretch of the imagination’
Sinn Féin is mistaken if it thinks Conor Murphy in the Seanad will inch us closer to a united Ireland
Party’s vision of early Border polls followed by a united Ireland is in stark contrast to the new government’s approach
Conor Murphy’s puzzling move to the Seanad crystallises sense of an unsettled Stormont
Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister
‘It is so wrong on so many levels’: former senator Jimmy Harte’s health declined after move to nursing home following brain injury
Recent figures show almost 1,300 people aged 20-65 are in nursing homes due to lack of community services
Taoiseach nominates two additional candidates to run in Seanad election due to contestant shortfall
Fine Gael councillors Sharon Tolan and Jimmy Kavanagh to contest election for upper house of Oireachtas
Seanad elections: How are parties going to use elections to upper house?
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin advance candidates believed capable of winning seats in key Dáil constituencies
Q&A: How the Seanad election works, who’s running and what are the key races?
The vast majority of people have no vote in the race as long-overdue reforms have yet to come into effect
Fine Gael set to ratify swathe of new candidates for Seanad Éireann panels
Party aiming to target constituencies where second or third seat could be won in future general elections
Sinn Féin Stormont minister Conor Murphy to run for Seanad next month
Surprise announcement would see Economy Minister depart from post if elected
Fine Gael senator Seán Kyne reverses decision to quit politics and will run again for Seanad
Brother of Fianna Fáil TD Michael Moynihan and nephew of former ceann comhairle Rory O’Hanlon also candidates in Upper House election with final nominations deadline on New Year’s Eve
Minister of State Malcolm Noonan sole Green Party Seanad candidate
Sinn Féin senator Fintan Warfield (32) is youngest retiree from the Oireachtas, leaving after two terms and eight years to pursue career in music
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to begin formal government coalition talks on Wednesday
Labour and Regional Independent group to decide on pursuing negotiations with two outgoing ruling parties
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael open to Labour coalition with opinions split on Independents
Jim O’Callaghan talks up Independents option while Bacik expected to speak separately with Martin and Harris this week
Katherine Zappone enters Seanad election race
Former Independent minister is seeking to be elected to the Seanad for the University of Dublin constituency
Fianna Fáil seeking to reclaim old Leinster House meeting rooms from Fine Gael
Party requests return to coveted fifth-floor meeting rooms, which it lost in 2011, now its Dáil numbers have risen
Seanad offers lifeboat to enable TDs who lost their seats remain in Oireachtas
Nominations close for ‘inside panels’ on New Year’s Eve and December 18th for ‘outside’ panels with with the count taking place on January 30th
Clare Daly finds a Dublin Central political address once linked to her ally Mick Wallace
Plus: no sign of the next laureate for fiction; the less-than-diverse membership of Aosdána; and Niall Blaney’s poor attendance record
Fine Gael candidate John McGahon divides opinions in Dundalk over 2018 incident
McGahon, found not guilty of assault causing harm to another man, has been endorsed by Taoiseach Simon Harris ‘on the basis of what happened in a court’
Plans for a bicycle maintenance station at Leinster House ‘stall’ after furore over €336,000 shelter
Officials at Leinster House asked in July for more bike spaces for the complex, saying demand for existing stands was very high
Death announced of former senator Billy Lawless who built successful pub business in Chicago
Galway native was nominated to the Seanad in 2016 by then taoiseach Enda Kenny
The Irish Times view on Seanad reform: too little, too late
It was only after decades of procrastination that the political establishment was forced into action following a legal challenge
‘Accelerated timeline’ for passing of Finance Bill to facilitate early general election, says Chambers
Coalition party leaders agreed on Monday night that polling day will be this year but not on an exact date
McDonald to make ‘unequivocal’ apology in Dáil to teenager who received inappropriate texts
SF leader confirms she will correct Dáil record after ex-party member confirms he was 16, not 17 when messages were sent
Crisis upon crisis: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin as an election looms?
The party faces strategic problems over where it positions itself and who its core voters are. And as it’s trying to figure all this out, it gets hit with one controversy after another
Controversial hate speech provisions removed from criminal justice legislation as Bill passed in Seanad
New laws stalled in Upper House after criticism by backbenchers, Senators, free speech groups and tech billionaire Elon Musk
Who is Niall Ó Donnghaile, the former Sinn Féin senator who resigned over ‘inappropriate’ texts to teenager?
A former Lord Mayor of Belfast, he resigned his Seanad seat last year citing health reasons
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