Micheál Martin on Thursday was elected as Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) for the second time, leading a coalition of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and independents. This marks the second consecutive ...

Micheál Martin was elected Taoiseach this week at the second time of asking. First he, the Dáil and the wider public had to endure the spectacle of attempts to elect a Taoiseach ending in chaos.  But ...

Martin will have the opportunity to somewhat even out numbers when appointing ministers of State but after a tumultuous two days he will simply be relieved to finally return to the office of An Taoise ...

Soon after Micheál Martin had been proposed and seconded as the next Taoiseach, Michael Lowry left the Dáil chamber which then heard about Lowry’s attempted purchase of Doncaster Rovers ...

Micheál Martin has made several surprise appointments and demotions in his first act as Taoiseach. He was nominated by his fellow TDs on Thursday afternoon on a score of 95 in favour to 76 against. It ...

Irish lawmakers voted Thursday to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time at the helm of a coalition government.

Ireland's Micheál Martin was elected prime minister for the second time by a coalition of the country's two large centre-right parties and independents on Thursday, and set himself the task of warding ...

Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my belief that his work is of the level that would be befitting of a Nobel Prize ...

Micheal Martin has been elected as the Republic of Ireland’s prime minister for a second time. Lawmakers voted on Thursday 95 to 76 in support of the nomination of the Fianna Fail leader. Martin will ...

In a day of chaos and farce, the Dáil failed to elect a Taoiseach, tarnishing its democratic reputation Opposition TDs ...

Picture: Flickr Houses of Oireachtas Once upon a long ago, WB Yeats declared in an Irish institution, the Abbey Theatre, “You ...