Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne has said Taoiseach Micheál Martin needs to bring more urgency to delivering on critical infrastructure

Bookies have slashed odds on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan being the next Fianna Fáil leader amid pressure on Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Catherine Connolly has been officially inaugurated as the President of Ireland

Ivan Yates has said he did ‘nothing wrong’ by not declaring to his audience that he had provided media coaching to Jim Gavin.

The Taoiseach has said he is confident the Fianna Fáil presidential campaign review will be completed next week

Former Fine Gael Minister and political commentator Ivan Yates provided services to Fianna Fáil's presidential candidate Jim Gavin

Backed by Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats, People Before Profit-Solidarity, and the Green Party, Connolly won the Presidential election with 63 per cent of the vote.

Ivan Yates is to leave the hugely popular political podcast he co-hosts with Matt Cooper, Path to Power

A new report found that across more than 16,000 radio mentions, the party fallout generated over 2,000 mentions

Mr Kelly sought the party’s nomination at the same time as eventual candidate Heather Humphreys.

“Look, we fucked up,” is how Michael Finucane put it.

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Catherine Connolly has been elected Ireland's 10th president on a record margin after taking 63.3 per cent of the vote

Ms Humphreys told RTÉ: “Catherine will be a president for all of us, and she will be my president, and I really would like to wish her all the very, very best."

Coast Guard members brought a Garda and the box to the island by boat yesterday at 8.15am and collected them later in the day, just after 6pm.

The electoral commission has said there “will clearly be a need for deeper and further reflection” about why there were so many spoiled ballots in the presidential election.

It was reported to gardaí that two females had been assaulted in North Strand Road, north Dublin, on Friday.

Counting started at 9am in the presidential election

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The race for the Áras is a two-horse race between Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys.

Dr Stack took the action against the Attorney General, Ireland, the Minister for Local Government and Heritage, the Presidential Returning Officer and Tánaiste Simon Harris.

The latest opinion poll shows that 21 per cent of people are undecided on who to vote for in the presidential election on Friday

Meta, which owns Facebook, removed the RTÉ News AI account on Wednesday after being contacted by the Irish Independent.

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Connolly commented under the post saying "GRMMA", an abbreviation for "go raibh míle maith agat", which is the Irish for thank you very much.

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The former teacher interrupted the presidential hopeful as she prepared to deliver a speech in Limerick on Saturday.

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Catherine Connolly leads Heather Humphreys in every qualifying county head-to-head on local radio

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the presidential election is still "all to play for"

Ivan Yates has responded to the controversy

Politicians have been told to stop bringing up the presidential election in the Dáil

Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly will be quizzed in the studio by Pat Kenny with less than two weeks to go until voting on Friday, October 24th.

Speaking during a visit to Millstreet in Co Cork on Friday, Mr Martin was coy as to whether it would be his first time voting for a Fine Gael candidate

The two presidential candidates were quizzed about their past records and plans for the presidency during the debate on RTE Radio 1.

The Irish Times reported on Thursday that she submitted a claim under the Parliamentary Activities Allowance for €3,691 related to “Syria” in her statements to the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) Commission for 2018.

Barry Cowen said he would be voting for Heather Humphreys, but would not be recommending or expecting other members of Fianna Fáil to do so.

The Youth Council has urged over 630,000 young people to register to vote

Fianna Fáil candidate Jim Gavin announced he would be withdrawing from the race after acknowledging he had ‘made a mistake’.

Reports have arisen in the last number of days regarding stories about him failing to register a tenancy with the Residential Tenancies Board, and allegedly owing money to a previous tenant. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said Gavin's decision to withdraw is the "correct one."

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, and Labour leader Ivana Bacik were among dozens joining Ms Connolly on a canvas of O’Connell Street in Dublin on Sunday.

Jim Gavin is the third choice for the public, according to the Ireland Thinks polling in the Sunday Independent.

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Ms Connolly admitted that it had upset her that Ms Ní Shionnain found herself in the media spotlight due to her connection with her.

Ms Connolly denied that she had spoken to gardaí about the woman, or that she had received advice not to hire her

Writing in The Irish Times, Mr McDowell said he had been "consistently liberal", and felt the Ms Steen's candidacy would be a "step backwards" for Ireland

TD for the Dublin Fingal West constituency, Louise O'Reilly, particularly emphasised the role Adams could have played in advancing Irish unity

Here is everything you need to know about how voting for the presidential election on Friday, October 24th

It comes as flags have been flown across Ireland in a move interpreted as expressing concern around immigration into the country.

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