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Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin all on about 20% in opinion polls after short, sharp campaign

With a housing emergency weighing heavily on voters’ minds, anything could happen at the polls on Friday, says journalist Justine McCarthy

The first leaders’ debate of Ireland’s current election campaign featured no fewer than ten party leaders. While this format was perhaps a questionable editorial choice, it was also simply a reflection of the now very diffuse – and quite messy – character of Ireland’s political system.

Editorial: Simon Harris has called a vote for 29 November because he is leading in the polls. But the current economic boom masks serious inequalities

O'Leary told Ireland's tourism minister to go back to the classroom as he called for more business people in politics.

Simon Harris expected to dissolve parliament on Thursday or Friday, with election day likely to be at end of November

Dáil members call for investigation after far-right leader gave false country of birth to Canada’s immigration officers

“The system over there, rather than protecting this woman, who is an Irish citizen, chose instead to detain her, to charge her.” The post Irish Woman Arrested In Dubai After Husband Attacked Her first appeared on Bored Panda.

Martin Leahy has performed Everyone Should Have a Home outside parliament every week for two years. After 100 performances, he is pessimistic about change

Lawmaker Simon Harris was elected Ireland's prime minister by a vote in parliament Tuesday, becoming at 37 the country’s youngest-ever leader.

A ‘meticulous door knocker’ as a councillor in 2009, 37-year-old is now poised to become Ireland’s youngest PM