Seats filled: 1 6.50 p.m. The first count has finally arrived in Wexford and, as predicted, Verona Murphy (IND) has exceeded the quota of 10,502 with 11,340 first preference votes and is deemed ...

Vote counting in Ireland's general election began Saturday as an exit poll indicated a tight finish between the three main parties with the incumbent centre-right coalition most likely to form ...

Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ...

The Republic of Ireland elects its government using a system of proportional representation known as the single transferable vote. Voters rank candidates in their constituency in order of preference ...

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Ireland is voting in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government. It also will show whether Ireland bucks ...

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris' Fine Gael party has seen its lead over both its main coalition partner and the main ...

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris' Fine Gael party holds a six-point lead over both its main coalition partner Fianna Fail ...

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It was put to Ms McEntee that the proposal was to decriminalise cannabis possession for personal use and that former Fine Gael Drugs Minister Hildegarde Naughton told the Irish Independent in ...

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The new Independent Ireland party is an attempt to ... There are candidates who are outright Ireland-for-the-Irish, anti-migrant, send-them-home racists. And there are those who are legitimately ...