The nomination period for the upcoming by elections on May 22nd closed at noon on Friday.

The Sinn Fein leader said a unity referendum by 2030 is still possible and she hoped unionist political leaders would see the ‘chance of real wins’.

The Sinn Féin president said the party has ‘great pep in our step’ and is ‘at its strongest point’ since partition.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said he would fulfil his mandate and lead into the next set of elections.

The Strangford MLA is the first person to lead the party twice.

Mr Kelly sought the party’s nomination at the same time as eventual candidate Heather Humphreys.

The Sinn Féin president said her party will contest the resulting by-election in the constituency

Many of those who spoiled their ballots in the presidential election had written in Maria Steen’s name instead of the eligible candidates.

The left-wing independent candidate showed her political and physical stamina during the final months of the campaign.

She grew up on a farm outside a village called Drum, located at the Cavan-Monaghan border.

The people of Ireland will go to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to Michael D Higgins as president of the country.

The two presidential candidates were quizzed about their past records and plans for the presidency during the debate on RTE Radio 1.

The major opposition parties joined her on stage to endorse the left-wing presidential candidate from Galway.

The Fianna Fáil nomination process for a presidential candidate has closed.

The Taoiseach said former pop star Geldof was one of a number of people who had expressed an interest in running for the role.

‘This is about the presidency, its not about Fianna Fáil,’ the party leader said.

The most common trigger for these experiences was immigration, according to Coimisiún na Meán research.

Entrepreneur Gareth Sheridan has claimed that he has been the victim of a ‘co-ordinated attack’ by people close to his former business associate.

Two hopefuls have announced their intention to seek Fine Gael’s nomination for president.

The former Labour party leader said ‘one should always keep one’s options open’, when asked if would rule out a bid for the role.

Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan has said it was unacceptable that details about An Post were revealed at a Cabinet meeting and that ongoing issues with restructuring were “conflated” with concerns raised by postmasters

Kildare county councillor Angela Feeney told the High Court in Dublin that there were issues around transparency of counting votes.

The Electoral Commission said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about legacy accuracy issues in registers maintained by local authorities across the country.

She will serve alongside Gavin Robinson who has been re-elected as DUP leader.

The last elected were independent candidate Eileen Flynn, Sinn Féin’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fáil’s Fiona O’Loughlin and Diarmuid Wilson.

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Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald said her party is the only one that Fianna Fáil has not spoken to in terms of a new coalition government.

Fianna Fail was the clear winner of the recent poll, securing 48 of the Dail’s 174 seats, ahead of Sinn Fein on 39 and Fine Gael on 38.

There is little over a week left until polling day.

The Fine Gael leader said: ‘We need to call that out.’

Tanaiste Simon Harris and Tanaiste Micheal Martin both condemned the proposal to examine the broadcaster’s objectivity.

Micheál Martin said John McGahon would not be running in the election if he was a member of Fianna Fáil.

A new opinion poll has put support for Simon Harris’s party on 25 per cent, ahead of both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin on 19%.

Mary Lou McDonald is hoping to lead Sinn Fein into government in Ireland after the election on November 29.

Richard Boyd Barrett said government parties want to drag Ireland into escalating conflicts.

Louise O’Reilly said the parties are not ‘fooling anybody’ by arguing about their differences when they ‘agree of pretty much everything’

The two party leaders hit the campaign trail on Monday to vie for votes.

Simon Harris said the election will be called by the end of the week.

Simon Harris said the Finance Bill must be passed before the Dail is dissolved.

The country will go to the polls before Christmas.

Coalition leaders have suggested they want to make progress on some pieces of legislation before any election

The Commission also said that the layout and design of the ballot papers for referendums were not sufficiently clear.

Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin got ‘a knock’ after the party put in a poor performance earlier this month.