Maria Steen has said she is “very grateful and humbled” to voters who wrote her name on the ballot in the presidential ...

Mary Lou McDonald expresses preference for encouraging transfers between left-wing parties over single unity candidate ...

There also appeared to be a significant number of spoiled votes as the ballot boxes were opened. If Mr Gavin got over 12.5 ...

Ultimately, Fine Gael has no one to blame for this but itself. It had a respectable candidate, but it did not run a good ...

Follow the latest here on the Irish Independent’s ‘Race to the Áras’ live blog Catherine Connolly: I will represent you to the best of my ability Follow the latest developments in our live blog: ' ...

They say that going to a wedding is the making of another, and in politics, one election is often the creation of another.

Left-wing Catherine Connolly pledged to be an "inclusive president for all" after being elected to replace Michael D Higgins, ...

The veteran Left-winger Catherine Connolly was elected as Ireland’s new president, winning by a landslide margin after her ...

Lucy Powell beat Bridget Phillipson - the Starmerite candidate - by a margin of 54 per cent to 46 per cent, in what had been ...