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

Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice ...

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Sinn Fein's Padraig Mac Lochlainn had called for the Dail to be suspended for an urgent meeting of the Business Committee ...

The Irish parliament has been suspended twice amid a row over speaking time rights afforded to independent politicians who were part of a negotiating team in the Government formation talks.

Politics, at its core, is all about survival and few can argue that Micheál Martin is anything other than a survivor.

Here was Fianna Fáil back again as the largest party in government after looking to be on the verge of oblivion 15 years ago.