The failure of Sinn Fein to even come close to winning any seats in the Republic’s two by-elections shows that the party’s republicanism is “out of touch” with voters.

Traditionally, government parties suffer in by-elections as the electorate use the ballot box as a form of referendum on the ...

Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Ireland’s chief opposition party since 2018, can’t deliver a win in her Dublin Central power ...

Results in Dublin Central and Galway West were seriously bad for Sinn Féin. There’s no other way to spin them ...

Janice Boylan of Sinn Féin and Social Democrats candidate Daniel Ennis will be slugging it out for the vacant Dáil seat in ...

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald dismissed talk of her stepped down as leader after arriving at the RDS. Video: Enda O'Dowd . So Dublin went as the polls and the pundits pre ...

There is currently a vacant Dáil seat in the Dublin Central constituency after the resignation of Paschal Donohue, with the ...

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has pushed back against the questioning of her leadership and said byelections were “a ...

A third of voters told pollsters that the cost of living is their main concern in the election ...

Fine Gael’s Seán Kyne appears best placed to take Galway West seat while Fianna Fáil gets one of its worst ever byelection ...

It's safe to say that both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin were both very unhappy with their showings in the Dublin Central and ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris described the results as pointing to a 'very competitive by‑election' ...