Kildare county councillor Angela Feeney told the High Court in Dublin that there were issues around transparency of counting votes.

Currently, a one-off registration system exists for tobacco, but not for nicotine inhaling products.

The Oireachtas said employee costs for their work on the election came to more than €110,000

Cork Labour Party Senator Laura Harmon missed out on a seat in the November 2024 general election, but tells John O’Shea that her sights are set firmly on the Dáil. 

Senator Seán Kyne, who is from Connemara, Co Galway, is the first Galway person to hold the office.

Cork city South West Ward councillors Laura Harmon and Garret Kelleher were both elected to the Seanad at the start of the month.

Senator Martin Conway resigned from the Fine Gael parliamentary party after admitting to being arrested by gardaí for being intoxicated in public.

Micheál Martin said he had been responsible for the 'most substantive policy change' in North-South relations

Senator Conor Murphy said Micheál Martin missed an opportunity to send a ‘positive message’ to unionist and Protestant communities.

Conway was arrested by gardaí on O'Connell Street, Co Dublin.

The last elected were independent candidate Eileen Flynn, Sinn Féin’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fáil’s Fiona O’Loughlin and Diarmuid Wilson.

The final count is taking place in the administrative panel.

Newry and Armagh MLA Liz Kimmins is to become the new minister for infrastructure.

The veteran republican took a seat on the industrial and commercial panel.

The veteran Sinn Fein politician is leaving his job as Stormont economy minister to take on a new role in the upper chamber of the Irish parliament.

Stormont minister Conor Murphy is hoping to land a seat on the industrial and commercial panel.

Votes are being counted for the 43 seats available on the upper house’s five vocational panels.

Cllr Conway's votes surpassed those of the outgoing Fianna Fáil Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee.

Just 31 votes separated the Greens’ Ms Chu and entrepreneur Aubrey McCarthy

Outgoing senators Ronán Mullen and Alice Mary Higgins were re-elected on the eighth count.

The vast majority of the public do not have a vote in the Seanad.

The Northern Ireland Economy Minister Conor Murphy has lodged his nomination papers for elections to the Seanad.

If successful Ann Marie Flanagan, who is an Independent candidate for the Administrative Panel in the 2025 Seanad election, would be the first ever disabled woman directly elected as a senator

Ann Marie Flanagan has stepped up her call to political parties to "urgently act on promises made to disabled people and their families" as she launched her Seanad campaign

Measures could be introduced so that train passengers who are delayed by more than an hour receive a full refund

The protest on Wednesday was an attack on democracy, he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland

James Heffernan was arrested three times in a 24-hour period after his nomination papers to run in last year's Seanad by-election were not accepted

The Senator said she still experienced racism and discrimination.

Marie Heaney heard the US president cite one of the poet’s best-known works in his Oireachtas address.

Water leaked into the Dáil and Seanad chamber due to the intense weather conditions earlier

Three days of hearings will be held in the Seanad chamber this autumn and a report of the findings will be published.

It follows claims by former and current zoo staff that were raised in the Seanad yesterday, including serious welfare issues and safety and management concerns.

Cork-based Michelle Healy tells us about her humanitarian background and explains why she is running as an independent in the 2020 NUI Seanad elections this month

This week, Cork candidates seeking votes to secure a place on the Seanad NUI Panel will outline their campaigns. Today, LAURA HARMON talks about her political career to date and outlines her plans for the future, should she be elected