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Irish premier Simon Harris said it had been the honour of his life to serve as Taoiseach.

Taoiseach Simon Harris will ask President of Ireland Michael D Higgins to dissolve the Parliament ahead of a polling date on Friday November 29.

The Sinn Fein president said the 70-plus candidates being fielded by her party proved it was ‘serious about winning’.

Announcement comes as polls show Simon Harris’s Fine Gael and coalition partners Fianna Fáil in position to win fourth term

The highly-anticipated announcement kicks off a truncated campaign which will last mere weeks.

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

The Finance Bill will go to committee on November 5, a Government spokesperson said.

Sinn Féin held on to all seven of its seats at Westminster in the 2024 election, making it the largest Northern Irish party in the UK parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and in local government in Northern Ireland.

This year’s early contender for banger of the summer started in an unlikely place, the idyllic rural community of Lisdoonvarna on the edge of the Burren, West Ireland. The viral hit, The Spark was a collaboration between a crew of pre-teens in Lisdoonvarna and Kabin Studio in Cork City —…

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil each win 23% of first preference vote, with Sinn Féin on just 12% after expected landslide

Ireland's prime minister Simon Harris was being urged Monday to call an early general election to capitalise on a surge in support for the government and a slump for the main opposition in European and local polls.