Sinn Féin councillors have accused other Derry City and Strabane District Council members of “hijacking” a council motion.

Councillor Brian Tierney has apologised to fellow elected members for the “huge, huge mistake” of providing a reference for a former soldier who was later convicted of rape.

The first woman to be elected Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, Verona Murphy, will host a celebration at Leinster House today to ...

According to Pythagoras, numbers rule the universe. They have also played quite a part in government formation as the surfeit of junior ministers demonstrates.

The guaranteed salary of the Ministers of State will be €159,525, rising to €172,670 for Super Junior Ministers who attend ...

It’s the fourth year of D-1 play for the University of St. Thomas women’s basketball program and it’s safe to say that they ...

Because, yeah, no, as Ross O’Carroll Kelly might say, last Thursday's appointment of the Cabinet was a giant disappointment.

The Laois TD was one of the highest profile TDs in the last Dáil as he was the Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee ...

Newly elected Sinn Féin TD for Louth /East Meath Joanna Byrne has been named to her party’s front bench as party spokesperson ...

Newly elected Sinn Féin TD for Louth/East Meath, Joanna Byrne, has been appointed the party’s spokesperson Arts, Sport, ...

Mexico’s first female president On October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first female and Jewish president, making history. In a nation where women were granted the right to vote only in 1953, ...

The Coalition is coming under increasing criticism over its 'cold house for women' status after it cut the number of female ...