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TG4 broadcast live Dáil proceedings with their service Dáil Beo and also provide extensive live coverage of Committee meetings. In November 2007, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced in the Dáil that he favoured an Oireachtas channel stating that "compared with a lot of tripe that is on TV, the Oireachtas channel would be far better and very ...
Leader's Questions is an Irish TV programme broadcast on RTÉ One and RTÉ News channel. It is produced by RTÉ News and Current Affairs, edited by Joe Mag Raollaigh and is presented by Sharon Ní Bheoláin. Political correspondents Micheál Lehane and Paul Cunningham also present from time to time.
The First Dáil (Irish: An Chéad Dáil) was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919 to 1921. It was the first meeting of the unicameral parliament of the revolutionary Irish Republic . In the December 1918 election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom , the Irish republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland.
First preference percentage share for the largest three parties was: Fianna Fáil 21.9%, Fine Gael 20.8%, Sinn Féin 19.0%. Turnout for the election was 59.7%, the lowest in more than a century.
Ireland faces weeks of coalition talks before it gets a new government, as the country’s two major center-right parties work to form a stable administration. With all 174 legislative seats ...
The position of Ceann Comhairle was created on the first day of the Dáil on 21 January 1919, when it was first established as a breakaway revolutionary parliament. [6] The first Ceann Comhairle was Cathal Brugha, who served for only one day, presiding over the Dáil's first meeting, before leaving the post to become President of Dáil Éireann.
Watch the moment Irish premier Simon Harris was re-elected to the Dáil, the lower house of Ireland's parliament, securing his position as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Wicklow on the first count on ...
The government of the 1st Dáil was the executive of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic.At the 1918 Westminster election, candidates for Sinn Féin stood on an abstentionist platform, declaring that they would not remain in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but instead form a unicameral, revolutionary parliament for Ireland called Dáil Éireann.