Election 2024 final results: Fianna Fáil the biggest party in the Dáil with just one seat between Sinn Féin and Fine Gael
Final count finished in Cavan-Monaghan with the make up of the 34th Dáil now complete
Peadar Tóibín
Election 2024 results: The winners and losers from day one of count
Fianna Fáil leader says he sees clear path to government while Fine Gael leader expresses confidence that his party will play significant role in Coalition formation talks
Meath West: Peadar Tóibín (Aon)
Tóibín resigned from Sinn Féin in 2018 over its support for abortion, founding Aontú the following year
If this election campaign has proven anything, it’s that voters are not eejits
Election 2024: Everything will be revealed over the course of this weekend. But in the meantime, we learned a few things during this bumpy campaign
General election: Mary Lou McDonald indicates Sinn Féin voters should transfer to Social Democrats or PBP
Rival parties pressed on possible coalition arrangements in final campaign events before polling day
Meath West constituency candidates list: Only one seat is really callable in this hotly contested three-seater
Election 2024: Sinn Féin’s fortunes will come down to the national performance on the day
‘We’re opposed to ethno-nationalism’: Aontú's Peadar Tóibín on election prospects
Election profile: Morally conservative party proposes child benefits from fourth month of pregnancy to discourage abortion
Former IRA member among nursing home early voters for general election
Residents at Maryfield facility in Chapelizod, Dublin, among about 15,300 ‘special voters’ in nursing homes and hospitals entitled to cast their ballots early
Election 2024: Latest poll results show momentum is with Sinn Féin, says McDonald
‘I don’t think fair people will judge me on 40 seconds,’ Harris says following backlash over disability worker interaction
Temperatures plummet on election campaign trail amid blizzard of political promises
While plans differ between some parties on housing, the cost of living and taxes, all of them agree on a few basic tenets around housing
What’s the point of an election if it inevitably means the same parties get back in?
The shameful and eternal truth about the Irish left is that as long as it stands apart, it falls apart
Rose of Tralee festival beset by financial problems and legal actions
Plus: Brian Ormond’s shoe business missteps, Peadar Tóibín’s distaste for government funding of media, and effing drama in the Dáil
Number of complaints against taxi drivers reaches record levels
In 2O23 some 1,782 complaints regarding small public service vehicle drivers were recorded, with nearly half connected to a taxi driver’s failure to provide cashless payment
Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shameful
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
Cab seizes more than €116m in assets over 12 years, with €64.4m transferred to exchequer
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín raises concern over ‘time lag’ between seizure and arrival in State coffers
Micheál Martin says he was never briefed about alleged Russian spy in the Oireachtas
Peadar Tóibín says Senators ‘sniggered like giddy children’ as they denied being reported infiltrator during Seanad sitting
Gardaí have compiled list of Oireachtas members and other people they believe have been targeted by Russians
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín calls on Irish political parties to audit members to see if anyone has received potential contact from Russian intelligence
Overseas intelligence agencies’ following well worn playbook for recruiting in Ireland
‘Influence operations’ by Russia and China are not uncommon as reports allege an Oireachtas member is working as an asset for Russian security services
Peadar Tóibín was approached to meet Putin in 2017 but ‘wasn’t interested’
Aontú leader calls on political parties to audit members for potential contact from Russian intelligence
National children’s hospital ‘car crash’ set to be repeated with maternity hospital, Dáil told
Aontú leader claims building, fit-out tender as ‘half-baked’ as contract for children’s hospital and that Government is ‘incinerating taxpayers’ money’
Haven’t we already tried restricting access to contraception to stop people having sex?
Aontú is concerned the proposed extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds amounts to a State-sponsored behavioural nudge: where their parents got SSIAs or Eircom shares, today’s young women would get Mirena coils
Free contraception for 16-year-olds amounts to State giving licence for underage sex, says Aontú's Tóibín
Stephen Donnelly is seeking an expansion to the scheme providing free contraception to women – including possibly to 16-year-olds
Officials concerned about adult asylum seekers claiming to be minors
Internal briefing warns of ‘severe demands’ put on Tusla service for child asylum seekers
Another crime added to long list by GAAGo
Simon Harris leaps to defence of Helen McEntee after Peader Tóibín decries ‘cynical nonsense’
Dublin city centre ‘scourged with anti-social behaviour, drug-dealing, gang intimidation’
Mary Lou McDonald says inner-city communities ‘sick and tired’ of sense of ‘threat and dread’, lack of support and services
What is the EU Migration and Asylum Pact pact and why has it been so controversial?
Agreement is standardised immigration control system across member states including tougher borders and holding centres for migrants
Election results: The candidates and constituencies to watch and what the main parties are hoping for
The only certainty is uncertainty, but here are the key bellwethers and battlegrounds in the European and local elections
Aontú calls for new border agency to oversee Ireland’s migration system
Peader Tóibín says candidates will be ‘competitive’ in 24 local electoral areas
Peadar Tóibín gets warm reception in Slane over plan to ‘crowbar’ issues on to Government agenda
Not everyone is promising Aontú a first preference but the European candidate is changing the minds of some traditional voters
European election Midlands-North-West debate: Migration a heated topic, but winning candidates hard to pick
Live debate on RTE Upfront features Peter Casey, Barry Cowen, Luke Ming Flanagan, Saoirse McHugh, Chris MacManus, Pauline O’Reilly. Peadar Tóibín and Maria Walsh
European Parliament elections: a few clear leaders and then a mad scramble for seats
Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive
Substitute bench more important than usual in upcoming European elections
Names on European candidates’ replacement lists matter more than usual with a general election on the horizon
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