The Irish General Election 2024 will be held on Friday, November 29 after Irish President Michael D. Higgins dissolved the 33rd Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament) at the request of Taoiseach Simon ...

Voter turnout in the Irish General Election 2024 sunk to 59.7% from 62.9% in 2020. This year's election saw the lowest turnout since 1923, the last time the number was below 60%. Related: Irish ...

Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, campaigns and talks to the media before the Irish general election, Nov. 28, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. / Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty.

THE IRISH Presidential election is less than six months away, and the leading players in the race to take over from Michael D. Higgins are becoming a little clearer. Ireland will go to the polls ...

But the story of the Irish general election on Nov. 29 is not that simple, and definitely should not be understood as evidence of widespread contentment with the status quo.

Irish political parties vying to lead the next government after a national election on Nov. 29 have published their manifestos, setting out their policies and how they will finance them.

The Republic of Ireland's general election has produced an outcome where no one party can govern alone and where even two parties together would come up short. Sinn Féin topped the popular vote ...

Opinion polls ahead of the Irish election suggested a surge in support for left-leaning Sinn Féin, which has historic links to the IRA. Those polls were borne out when the party saw the number of ...

A general election will be held in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday 8 February. Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar has asked President Michael D Higgins to dissolve the Dáil (Irish parliament ...

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said on Tuesday that he plans to call a parliamentary election later this week, likely setting up a polling date for the end of the month.

In the 2016 election, it formed a confidence-and-supply arrangement, along with independents, to prop-up the Fine Gael-led government. The two parties had dominated Irish politics since the early ...