Members of the Irish Parliament

THE leader of the Irish Green Party sent a message of solidarity to his Scottish counterparts as they held their spring conference in Greenock. Eamon Ryan TD, a member of the Irish Parliament, sent a St Patrick's Day message praising co-operation between Ireland and Scotland. The leader of the Irish ...

The initial policy of Sinn Fein was the re-establishment of the Irish parliament which had been abolished by the 1800 Act of Union and the creation of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy. The policy of the then-existing Irish Parliamentary Party was condemned for saving 'the face of tyranny by sending Irishmen to ...

Only 22 per cent of the Irish parliament is female, and women account for 16 per cent of board members on Iseq-listed companies. In a country bursting with highly educated, talented women, something is clearly going wrong. It behoves us to ensure that this cause is championed not just once a year, but ...

The speeches drew occasional shouting from the huge crowds. The massive rally, which was organized by a local non-political party-affiliated organization under the slogan of Save The Eighth, came a day after the lower house of the Irish parliament started debating a government-tabled bill proposing to ...

Today, the Government will bring the referendum before the Dail, the lower house of the Irish parliament. A policy paper due to be published this week will outline proposals to allow for a 12-week protected period where a woman can access abortion if she needs to in consultation with her doctor, and also ...

The Irish government might give its backing to legislative proposals that would basically make the touting of tickets for profit illegal in Ireland. Two members of the Irish parliament, Noel Rock and Stephen Donnelly, have been calling for tough new regulations limiting online ticket touting for a while now.

A County Armagh farmer looks set to become the latest person from NI to sit in the Seanad ( Irish senate). Ian Marshall is a former president of the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) who owns a farm near Markethill. He has also worked with Queen's University Belfast as business development manager.

An Irish MP has blamed damage to a road on fairies, saying that disturbance to their forts caused a dip in the tarmac. In Irish folklore, tampering with fairy forts can cause one to become cursed. A dip on the N22 road in Ireland was repaired recently, but re-appeared mysteriously.

From 1927 until the 1970s it was illegal to sell alcohol during religious holidays like St. Patrick's day in Ireland thanks to a law introduced by Irish MP James O'Mara. prince william and dutchess kate drink guinness Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, drinking ...