The presidential election has finally sparked into life with two firm candidates confirmed this week and more certain to follow, writes Political Reporter Sandra Hurley.

It was with ­incredulity that I read Máiría Cahill’s column (‘Politicians fiddle while children’s future burns’, Sunday Independent, July 13), in which she alleged Sinn Féin and the SDLP, along with ...

The decision to lower the voting age to 16 is both cynical and stupid – yet had the support of most of the main Northern ...

The Kerry Sinn Féin Chairperson is calling on the government to extend voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds in the Republic ...

Fine Gael's Cllr Damien Geoghegan responded: “It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone. In 2015, the then Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of ...

Detectives are appealing for information following a report of a fire at a property in Lurgan in the early hours of this ...