All parties struggling to find candidates of sufficient stature to replace President Michael D Higgins

Bertie Ahern spent months publicly offering himself – though less ubiquitously of late, suggesting some private messages of discouragement have been sent

European governments need to take concrete steps to pull support for Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, legal opinion states

Former minister for education and Dún Laoghaire TD says the decision will ultimately be up to Taoiseach Micheál Martin

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To ramp up its wind power resources, Ireland needs to reform its planning system and launch a public awareness campaign to highlight the long-term benefits of the renewable energy source

Businessman and charity co-founder the latest person to reveal they are considering presidential tilt

Take Ireland’s top manufacturer of insulation - not Kingspan, but the HSE. It creates layers of impenetrable padding between political decision-makers and the consequences

Slow race towards European Parliament restarts this morning as counts in Dublin, Midlands-North-West and Ireland South resume

Local and European elections: Taoiseach Simon Harris does lap of honour at count centre as Sunday’s tale of two parties came with an ending neither was expecting

FG’s Regina Doherty comes in second but candidates placed third to sixth separated by less than 5,000 votes after first count

Election results: Sinn Féin will make gains in comparison to 2019 result but TD David Cullinane says ‘obviously we expected to do better’

Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months

The Dublin MEP says he will have to fight to retain his seat despite being seen as the frontrunner

MEP ‘clearly said he does not support the continuation’ of nitrates derogation, says IFA president

All eight Dublin MEP candidates were very well briefed, armed with immediate data and quotable quotes, and did not hold back during a spiky debate

Daughter Maria Bailey TD said father reared her to be a ‘strong, independent woman’

Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews takes fourth seat, saying he will ‘figure out what to do’ until Brexit

Politicians risk €150 fine per early election poster

Inside Politics: Party rolled its eyes when John McGuinness was on radio