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Sinn Féin and Labour express support for scrapping €3,000 student registration charge, but two main Government parties say boosting student grants is more equitable

Dublin West TD says parties must ‘come together to learn from what has happened in France’ in call for agreement

Another five years of FF/FG rule would be disastrous for the country. Left parties and Independents must come together and stop this happening

Verona Murphy’s Wexford Independent Alliance makes a splash and has five councillors elected

European election: Independents Michael McNamara and Mick Wallace, Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion, Green Party’s Grace O’Sullivan and Fianna Fail’s Cynthia Ní Mhurchú are battling for the other three seats

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of the seats declared so far

Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months

Local and European elections: Canvassing with People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, you can sense a cooler atmosphere, and Sinn Féin is certainly no longer flavour of the month

Cocktail of misinformation, disinformation and right-wing populism not as prevalent in Ireland compared to Europe

With polling showing Independents on nearly a quarter of the vote, Ivana Bacik makes election pitch

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

This day next week, Ireland goes to the polls to elect councillors, MEPs and a mayor for Limerick. Here’s the state of the nation

Local elections: More women starting to make a mark in a political system ultimately ‘designed primarily for men by men’

Richard Boyd-Barrett tells Housing Fight Back rally current State policy is a ‘disaster’

Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive

People Before Profit councillor Hazel De Nortúin submitted complaint which has been referred back to Standards in Public Office

Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell

Opposition parties demand early general election as Taoiseach shocks country by announcing he would resign as Fine Gael leader immediately and step down as the head of Government in early April

Staff and representatives had difficulty contacting new owners of business during two weeks’ notice given on closures

Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri says he did not want to see Ireland ‘go down the road’ of other European countries where anti-immigrant sentiment is surging