Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have rejected suggestions that the Coalition leaders have failed when it comes to ensuring gender equality in their ministerial appointments.

The arrangements underpinning the support of the Regional Independent Group (RIG) and the Healy-Raes for the incoming Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition government seem to be in a political grey zone of constructive ambiguity.

Micheál Martin, who was poised to be elected as Ireland's new Taoiseach today, slammed the chaotic Dáil proceedings as a "subversion of the Irish Constitution."

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael members have voted to ratify the draft Programme for Government that will see both parties form a coalition government

Jerry Buttimer expected to be appointed Minister of State with Robert Troy also to make a ministerial comeback

The guaranteed salary of the Ministers of State will be €159,525, rising to €172,670 for Super Junior Ministers who attend cabinet.

Last week’s chaotic scenes demonstrated that there is an opportunity for Opposition parties to come together and win public support in doing so

Because, yeah, no, as Ross O’Carroll Kelly might say, last Thursday's appointment of the Cabinet was a giant disappointment. They really channelled Zuckerberg's “masculine energy” thing. I watched the RTÉ news with an even more sour boomer whose face would have curdled milk.

For the second straight year, Century headed to BHS without a loss. For the second straight year, the Patriots left with a loss, thanks to a strong finish from the

No senior Minster and Taoiseach Micheál Martin drops Seán Fleming as junior minister with Offaly also out in the cold

Three Clare county councillors have requested Clare County Council to make urgent contact with national government about what they see as a serious deficiency in the Housing Aid for Older People

The Laois TD was one of the highest profile TDs in the last Dáil as he was the Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee when he was a Sinn Féin TD. He was replaced as leader of this committee after he resigned from Sinn Féin over a disciplinary process that arose from an interaction he had with a female member of Sinn Féin.