Counting has begun in the Irish general election, as exit polls suggest a close contest between the three major parties.

People in Ireland are going to the polls Friday, as the country holds a general election to fill 174 seats in the Dail ...

The polls have opened for the Irish general election. Voters are able to cast their ballot up until 22:00 local time to ...

Fine Gael expelled Mayo County Councillor Patsy O’Brien after he was found to have repeatedly sent pornographic material to a ...

The Republic of Ireland elects its government using a system of proportional representation known as the single transferable ...

Minister of State Anne Rabbitte has said she will reimburse the Oireachtas for prepaid envelopes used during the election campaign after a video emerged of her stuffing a postbox with hundreds of ...

The video is a shortened version of a speech delivered on Sept. 3, 2014, in the Houses of Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament. The debate was held by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade ...

In the pursuit of wealth, progressiveness and compliance, Ireland has an Oireachtas that has lost all moral and ethical compass, and all sense of decency. We cannot ignore the breakneck speed at ...

An increasingly common way for scammers to dupe people out of their money is through push payment fraud —when a person is tricked to send money from their account to one controlled by a fraudster.

In his speech to a joint sitting of the Oireachtas (both houses of the Irish parliament), he spoke of his pride in his Irish roots and support for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

On Tuesday morning, Trócaire and Christian Aid spoke at the Oireachtas joint committee on the environment and climate action. READ MORE: Where your county stands on Irish attitudes to the climate ...