The upper house of Oireachtas is located inside Leinster House, the same building as Dáil Eireann Counting is continuing for nominees to Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the Irish parliament).

Dáil Éireann delivered that assembly. Who attended the first meeting of Dáil Éireann? All victorious candidates in the 1918 election from Irish constituencies were invited to attend the First ...

Conway resigned from the Fine Gael parliamentary party on Sunday following his arrest for public intoxication.

The Irish government said its focus throughout this process was to ensure that every TD elected by the people could fulfil their mandate and have speaking rights in Dáil Éireann. Government ...

‘These meetings were held to ­enable the democratic process of this House and do what we were all elected to Dáil Éireann to do, that is, to elect a Taoiseach and Government. ‘All parties ...

POLITICIANS have been sent a report on bad language following an embarrassing Dail spat between Mary Lou McDonald and Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Former sports presenter Evanne Ní Chuilinn's the latest name to receive (and presumably reject) the 'celebrity politician' tag.

Because Dáil debates can become fairly rowdy, there's been plenty of occasion for chairs to rule a word out of order Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Jack Chambers, in the Dail chamber.

You can check out at any time. More info Opposition TDs have threatened a repeat of the chaos seen in the Dáil last week over Government proposals that Michael Lowry and other independents could ...

The Seanad election must take place up to 90 days after Dáil Éireann has dissolved. This means that the new Dáil is formed before the Seanad election. Forty-nine of the Seanad's 60 members are ...