Ireland's political leaders have responded to Wednesday night's tragic plane crash in Washington, DC, the deadliest in the US since November 2001.

Opposition parties have signalled their clear opposition to a Government proposal aimed at resolving the row over speaking ...

Women junior Ministers were placed in the front row at the Leinster House photocall but it fooled no one, as just six of the 23 appointees are women ...

The Government has defended itself against criticism after promised corrective action on gender balance failed to materialise ...

”You’re very male,” Mary Lou McDonald said in the Dáil last week, after the Cabinet was announced, with the air of someone ...

MICHAEL Healy-Rae celebrated his appointment as Minister by thumping the air outside Government buildings as Taoiseach ...

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

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

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has remembered the oldest and youngest victims of the atrocity. The Real IRA bomb attack on August 15 1998 came on the 66th birthday of former nurse and mother-of-11 Mary ...