People Before Profit Alliance

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

Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows party’s lead cut as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hold firm and smaller parties gain

Referendum countdown: Here is how many of the most prominent organisations recommend you vote - and why

More than 13,000 summonses for failure to pay TV licence issued last year, with Varadkar saying he would like a new system for funding public service broadcasting in place by 2025

Both referendums due to take place on March 8th, International Women’s Day