Counting has begun in the Irish general election, as exit polls suggest a close contest between the three major parties.

Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ...

Counting will start across the Republic of Ireland at 09:00 local time Exit polls in the Irish election suggest a close ...

An exit poll in the Republic of Ireland suggests that Sinn Féin has 21.1% of first preference votes with Fine Gael having 21% ...

Ireland's two large centre-right parties looked on course to be returned to power after an election on Friday, but they will ...

Ireland's main opposition party Sinn Fein looked on course to narrowly win the most votes at a general election on Friday, ...

The leader of Ireland's opposition Social Democrats party gave birth to a baby girl on Friday, voting day in the country's ...

The Republic of Ireland elects its government using a system of proportional representation known as the single transferable ...

Eighteen of the party’s 35 incumbents are not contesting the General Election, with incumbency historically considered an ...

The boxes holding the ballots were opened at 9am at count centres across the country. The protracted process of sorting and ...

Ireland began voting Friday in a closely-fought general election with the incumbent coalition neck-and-neck with opposition ...

Ireland is voting in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government. It also will show whether Ireland bucks ...