Catherine Connolly takes office as Ireland’s president today. Her left-wing insurgent campaign took the Irish political establishment by surprise, winning a record number of votes and proving the Left ...

Galway West by-election will be held in May to fill the seat vacated by Connolly when she became president of Ireland ...

Voters across the Republic of Ireland will head to the polls on October 24 to elect a new head of state to replace Michael D. Higgins. His replacement will be Ireland’s tenth president since the role ...

All of these describe tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s) vote-a-rama on local tax questions. Boring because the outcomes are pretty much a foregone conclusion with little opposition to proposed tax increases.

Vote-counting begins on Sunday following Ireland's general election which exit polls called as a three-way tie, meaning every ballot will count in the battle to form the next government. Prime ...