Sinn Féin

Election 2024: People Before Profit leader wants to remove income limits for social housing and impose wealth tax on high earners

In terms of outcome of the upcoming election, a new coalition made of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and someone other than the Greens has emerged as the most popular choice

Ireland is almost unique among western democracies in offering a real choice between voting for Independents and established parties. But are Independents a positive or destabilising force?

Election 2024: Many voters struggling to get on property ladder will be basing their first preferences on parties’ policies on issue

Option of government led by Sinn Féin rises in popularity and is preferred to return of outgoing coalition

Latest poll indicates Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition still preferred, despite Simon Harris slump

Hostility to Sinn Féin over immigration has dissipated in its strongholds but the party has not yet captured the momentum of its successful 2020 general election campaign

The issue of school resources and pay for teachers also arose during the dedicated children’s hustings

Residents at Maryfield facility in Chapelizod, Dublin, among about 15,300 ‘special voters’ in nursing homes and hospitals entitled to cast their ballots early

‘I don’t think fair people will judge me on 40 seconds,’ Harris says following backlash over disability worker interaction

For members of Nore Dragon Paddlers, all of whom have survived breast cancer, seeing their children leave Ireland because they can’t afford a home is a big issue

Plan ‘would provide banks with the exact same security as the current government schemes do’, says party’s housing spokesman

Latest Irish Times/B&A Ipsos poll shows sharp drop in support for Fine Gael and modest boost for Sinn Féin

Poll shows Fine Gael is in trouble and will need a dramatic turnaround in the first few days of the week to arrest the decline

Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman describes encounter between the pair as a ‘defining moment’ of the election campaign

The housing crisis is mentioned in both south county and west Dublin, but it and the cost of living preoccupy more minds in the latter

Green Party leader says Sinn Féin would have to change its position on several issues for the Greens to consider a coalition with that party

Final week of election campaign sees big drop in support for Fine Gael

Irish Times poll sees both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin increase their support

From building targets and government supports for prospective house buyers to rising rents and building defects, housing is a central issue in this election

Social Democrats, Labour and Greens jostling for position among smaller parties

Friends of the Earth rated parties on their pledges in areas of leadership, homes, energy, transport and food

Biggest challenge to date in the career of the Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader

The party, rocked by fallout from child sex offences against former press officer Michael McMonagle, is facing internal calls to professionalise and shed its siege mentality

Election Daily: Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to discuss Irish Times poll findings

Sniping between the two parties is counterproductive and risks turning off voters

Sinn Féin has its work cut out in the constituency as newly elected MEP Kathleen Funchion is a big electoral loss for the party

Developments such as the rise of social media and Ring doorbells have changed the landscape for election campaign canvassers

Micheál Martin, Mary Lou McDonald and Simon Harris out canvassing with election now days away

Seen & Heard: Party manifesto funding ‘holes’; Daft.ie nears €300m sale; Buyer for Bord na Móna recycling operation

Election campaign trails can tell us a lot about what leaders are thinking

Taoiseach says he ‘feels really bad’ about an interaction with Charlotte Fallon

Some 56 ‘persons of interest’ in rioting now identified after Garda release of 99 images

Sutcliffe is a candidate in the Dublin South Central constituency

There’s plenty happening on the campaign trail as all the major parties continue their efforts with the election just a few days away

Simon Harris said he does not think he has ever met Michael O’Leary

Differences in the terms on which various workers are employed developed as cuts imposed after the financial crash were not reversed for section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers

This week the panel talks about the campaign so far with the focus was on housing, the message of change and the party leaders’ performances

Sinn Féin manifesto's bizarre plans for an investigation into RTÉ’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza are part of a worrying pattern

When Labour is preaching prudence, you know we’ve got a problem