In 2016, Mr Conway ran for ­election to the Seanad and was re-elected to the administrative panel for another four years. It ...

Senator Martin Conway found himself at the centre of a two-headed political controversy this week. He was arrested after being found intoxicated on Dublin’s O’Connell street last month, and he also ...

Under the Government agreement, six of the senators will be selected by Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and ...

And as Achill’s Cllr Paul McNamara said, if Fine Gael was in power they would be doing exactly the same thing. So, after lots of huffing and puffing SeΡn Carey was elected leas-cathaoirleach. This was ...

Clare’s newly elected senator claims it would be a ‘retrograde step’ for the county if Clare had no representation in the upper house of the Oireachtas. First elected to the Seanad in 2011, Martin ...

Tipperary Fine Gael Senator Garret Ahearn was re-elected to Seanad Éireann this afternoon. The senator from Grange near Clonmel has secured one of the seven Administrative Panel seats in the election.

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open. You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to ...

Leonora Carey has come up short in her bid to secure a seat in the Seanad. Carey, who ran for Fine Gael in the recent general election, was aiming to secure a place on the Labour Panel of the upper ...

Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism! FINE Gael’s Elenora Hogan is now officially a councillor after she was formally co-opted onto Limerick’s local authority. Ms Hogan ...

The death has taken place of Tipperary County Council member John Fahey. The Fine Gael man was hugely popular in local politics. A native of Killenaule, he was a member of Carrick on Suir Municipal ...

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is to move to improve the ratio of women in government when naming 23 junior minister positions today. Both Government parties, however, have privately admitted the ...

This three-year programme comprises three areas of practice: Painting, Fine Art Media and Sculpture, with an integrated critical studies component. All practice-based staff are practising artists and ...