Tánaiste Simon Harris has announced that Fine Gael will develop a blueprint for a united Ireland by November.

EU politicians agreed on text which promises to increase deportations of undocumented migrants

Michael Healy-Rae has blamed comments made by his brother Danny during the fuel protests for the chain of events that led to his resignation as a minister of state and cost Kerry a ministry.

Eoin O’Driscoll previously worked for Teneo, the advisory firm that manages public relations for Re-turn

Gardai are investigating a suspected hoax 'mass shooting' threat sent to schools in Carlow that included a sinister image and led to multiple closures.

Tanaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris earlier said Mr Kyne’s victory in Galway West would be "a victory for centrist politics" and said it showed the "healthy state" of Fine Gael

I have found this a very disappointing weekend in many respects for sports. Two Irish rugby teams (Ulster and Leinster) both lost their cup finals against French opposition (Montpellier and Bordeaux in the Challenge Cup and Champions Cup, respectively). Glamorgan’s cricketers lost their first two Twenty20 games of the season (both narrowly). And today’s last […]

Fine Gael director of elections, Minister Peter Burke, said Mr Kyne had fought a "strong" campaign and people "chose the politics of building solutions as opposed to the politics of anger"

Counting is under way in the Dublin Central by-election, with early tallies showing Social Democrats candidate Daniel Ennis leading in a dramatic race for one of the Dail's most closely watched seats.

Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh has announced that she is pregnant with her first child after undergoing IVF treatment. The former Rose of Tralee shared the news on social media before admitting that she had not planned on ‘doing it on my own’. However, Walsh expressed that having a child was ‘always a part of my […]

In her speech to party faithful at the Ard Fheis in Belfast, the Sinn Fein leader said the Government needs to introduce an emergency budget after trying to "buy off" fuel protesters

'Micheal is living in an ivory tower surrounded by his highly paid advisors and civil servant totally detached from reality'

The Fine Gael leader said recently: "People in rural Ireland are very quick to tell people in urban Ireland that ‘we are the real workers, we’re the ones paying the bills, we’re the ones feeding the country.’"

Voting will take place in the Dáil on Tuesday as TDs return to the chamber after two weeks off

Saoirse Alyward lost her baby Jax at 31 weeks after being injured in a road crash

A Meath man discovered a jar of homemade jam from 1976 during a house clearance and ignored his wife's warning before tasting it.

The former Fine Gael leader said the White House meeting which is scheduled for St Patrick's Day is more than just a photo opportunity.

After months of relentless wind, rain and snow warnings affecting much of Ireland, Met Eireann has confirmed a major change is on the way to how weather alerts are issued.

Locals in Clogga, a small townland east of Sixmilebridge, have been continuously losing electricity due to the pesky peckers over the last 14 months - sometimes for multiple days at a time.

A split is growing between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over Tánaiste Simon Harris’s plans to introduce a new scheme to boost the savings of middle-income earners, Extra.ie has learned. Cabinet sources this weekend said Fianna Fáil want the Finance Minister’s investment plan to be tied to housing as the Coalition continues to lag far […]

Mr Harris said the Fine Gael representative was “hard-working and deeply committed” who “served the people of North-West Cork” for more than 17 years.

Born on February 9, 1926, Garret FitzGerald is regarded as one of the most influential political figures of his generation with a career spanning decades