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17 Days to go

The TrailFix: Will the TV debates liven up this 'boring' election?

9 Feb 2016

12.7k

recognition

Minister says MMA should be recognised as a sport but government funding is 'a long way away'

9 Feb 2016

13.5k

On the canvass

'Get the f*** out of Wicklow': Enda met his first protesters of the election today

9 Feb 2016

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Election 2016

Sinn Féin wants to scrap the Special Criminal Court

9 Feb 2016

24.5k

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in it to win it

Micheál Martin got a little testy today on his party's chances of winning

9 Feb 2016

16.6k

feel the bern

Bernie Sanders sneaks ahead of Clinton as first few votes cast in New Hampshire

9 Feb 2016

17.2k

Fighting Crime

"The uniform no longer gives protection" - Gardaí call for more firepower amid gang feud

9 Feb 2016

24.0k

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Trump

"He's a p***y" - Donald Trump repeats slur used to describe rival

9 Feb 2016

20.1k

Election 2016

The deadline for voter registration is TODAY: here's what you need to know

9 Feb 2016

21.0k

Opinion

You risk blowing your savings on a lifetime supply of customised pens when you run for election

Roslyn Fuller

9 Feb 2016

1.4k

18 days to go

The TrailFix: Another tough week for Gerry Adams - but will it matter?

8 Feb 2016

17.9k

130

The Daily Poll

Poll: Do you think the Special Criminal Court should be scrapped?

8 Feb 2016

32.5k

152

Fiscally speaking

Another hole has been poked in Fine Gael's numbers

8 Feb 2016

30.9k

178

drumcondra attack

Gerry Adams has responded to Enda's comments linking IRA weapons to Friday's shooting

8 Feb 2016

34.5k

198

general erection

Irish Election Rides just confirmed that it's back in time for #GE2016

8 Feb 2016

23.4k

booby sands

Controversy after YFG member tweets altered image of Mary Lou McDonald on beach

8 Feb 2016

76.7k

182

The Daily Poll

Poll: Have you had a call from canvassers?

8 Feb 2016

25.0k

120

Overcrowding

Varadkar defends comments about extra resources making hospitals slow down

8 Feb 2016

12.7k

Heated

How Lucinda and Averil clashed over abortion as students more than a decade ago

7 Feb 2016

52.7k

174

shatter resistant

'When you tell the truth in politics you get into trouble - but the truth helps me sleep at night'

7 Feb 2016

15.9k

booby sands

This Mary Lou leaflet contains a very unfortunate typo about Bobby Sands

7 Feb 2016

72.1k

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The Daily Poll

Poll: Should we bring in an 'NCT for people'?

7 Feb 2016

34.4k

big no-mementum

Chris Christie dealt the resurgent Marco Rubio a huge blow with this drop-the-mic attack

7 Feb 2016

21.4k

Out of Order

Mary Lou called Brian Hayes a 'gurrier' when he tried to grill her about Slab Murphy

7 Feb 2016

42.7k

219

Angry Noonan

'Prove it, prove it!': Noonan blames media and insists he didn't get his maths wrong

7 Feb 2016

23.4k

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paging dr carson

The intros at last night's Republican debate turned into an awkwardly hilarious traffic jam

7 Feb 2016

12.9k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Did Enda Kenny really call Michael Lowry 'a man of the highest integrity'?

7 Feb 2016

23.8k

145

column

'Power is a drug': Alan Kelly's recent interview showed the true colours of Irish politics

Tom Clonan

7 Feb 2016

1.4k

poster pin ups

Here's what our political parties have spent on election posters *

7 Feb 2016

23.9k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Is Alan Kelly right to say 80% of people are paying for water?

6 Feb 2016

48.7k

189

Speaking out

Alan Shatter has a lot to say about 'venomous' online abuse

6 Feb 2016

18.9k

118

straight into jobstown

Into the storm: Scrambling for votes in one of the country's most volatile constituencies

6 Feb 2016

35.2k

148

up and down

Fine Gael picks up support while Sinn Féin drops

6 Feb 2016

22.9k

171

Thurles

People aren't happy about this Michael Lowry banner erected on a 15th Century landmark

6 Feb 2016

38.5k

104

flying sex toy

Throwing dildos at politicians not an appropriate way to celebrate New Zealand, says PM

6 Feb 2016

22.7k

Sweet Micky

Haiti's President has released a sexually suggestive song called "Give Them The Banana"

6 Feb 2016

11.8k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Did Labour really break a pledge not to increase student fees?

6 Feb 2016

18.2k

Fiscal Space

The phantom €2 billion: How everyone except Sinn Féin got the maths wrong

5 Feb 2016

111k

178

21 days to go

The TrailFix: The gloves are off as Gerry and Joan go at it

5 Feb 2016

16.3k

FactCheck

FactCheck: Were 135,000 new jobs really gained under Fine Gael?

5 Feb 2016

32.9k

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