In a vicious result in Louth, Drogheda’s Ged Nash has lost his seat. The 41-yr-old was in a gutter fight with Fine Gael’s Peter Fitzpatrick for the last seat in the 5-seater. It was unclear …
A garda is recovering in hospital tonight after he was badly beaten in Dublin early this morning. Two gardai were chasing a man on foot down a street in Ballinteer this morning at 6am. It’s …
The Minister for children James Reilly has lost his seat in Dublin Fingal. The former doctor was also the deputy leader of Fine Gael. He is now said to be contemplating retiring entirely. The Rush …
In an unbelievable result, Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has somehow managed to get re-elected. After the 6th count, the man responsible for Irish Water edged past Fine Gael’s Tom Hayes. Kelly said: “I suppose …
Actor Frank Kelly has died aged 77. Best known for his role as Fr Jack Hackett in Fr Ted, Kelly had a widespread career which saw him walk the boards quite a lot. Having survived …
The country went to the polls just two days ago… and there’s already talks of a new election to form a government. The results still aren’t in so nothing is definite, but the most likely …
Without a shadow of a doubt, Fine Gael very much under-performed yesterday. Not only did they not receive an overall majority, they are finding themselves in a struggle this morning to even consider forming a …
Bucking the trend of a Labour demolition, in an absolutely mindboggling turnaround, Joan Burton has astonishingly managed to get the last seat in her constituency of Dublin West. From late last night and early this …
Alan Shatter’s political career is over. He has lost his seat in Dublin-Rathdown. He was overtaken by Fine Gael colleague Josepha Madigan, as well as being overtaken Green Party candidate Catherine Martin on the sixth count. …
The Communications Minister Alex White is about to lose his seat. In his Dublin Rathdown constituency, it now is almost mathematically impossible that Alex White is going to lose his Labour seat as part of a national …
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