Saturday 27 February 2021
It often seems as if the debate on pluralising ‘referendum’ can be as divisive as the issues being voted upon. So who’s right?
Do you want the new court to be established or for our courts system to remain the same?
Do you want the Seanad saved or abolished?
The implications of the Court of Appeal referendum are going over people’s heads because most citizens have never had any direct or personal engagement with the Supreme Court, writes Myles Duffy.
More than half of delegates at the constitutional convention think the number of members in the Dáil should be left unchanged.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hopes to complete a political comeback with victory for his Labor Party.
The Dáil and Seanad may not be voting but that doesn’t mean TDs and Senators are on holidays. In fact, the summer months are when a lot of important work gets done, writes Anne Ferris TD.
The election is seen as vital for restoring constitutional order after a coup in March last year.
Fine Gael has confirmed in a tweet this evening that the referendum will take place on Friday, 4 October.
The referendum is likely to be held on the same day as a number of other votes designed to modernise the Constitution.
The Government is going to hold a referendum to lower the voting age. Good idea?
You can change the way you “thumb” in the apps.
The country’s president is hoping to secure a majority in both houses of parliament so he can push through reforms in the country’s corruption-ridden system.
Name recognition surely benefits politically candidacy both here and abroad, but it shouldn’t just be the Kennys, McEntees or the Clintons that are getting involved in the politics of shaping nations – we all should be, writes Larry Donnelly.
Following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, more than 70 per cent of people turned out to elect the first assembly. Fast forward 15 years and the people seem disenchanted, but why, asks David McCann.
If we want to reclaim the current political landscape we need to re-establish the ground rules for office holders and ensure their words turn into actions, writes Martin Critten.
McEntee, 26, sees off the challenge of FF’s Thomas Byrne – while Labour licks its wounds after dropping down to fifth place.
Overall turnout in the by-election is expected to be in the low 30s as voters decided who they wanted to replace the late Shane McEntee in the Dáil.
There are 11 candidates in the running for the Meath East seat following the death of Shane McEntee TD.
The nun said she was trying to fulfil her late friend’s wishes in the US election.
The public vote is now open to choose a winner from doodles by school students around the country.
The campaign was focused on rescuing the recession-hit EU member state from bankruptcy.
A new opinion poll shows the party are back on top, but will they move across the Dáil chamber the next general election?
The Labor party leader said the move would give “shape and order” to the year.
In 1912, the suffragettes were engaged in an increasingly confrontational campaign to secure voting rights for women which included bomb attacks and hunger strikes.
Opponents to the new constitution have said it will weaken human rights, particularly women’s rights and undermine the independence of the judiciary.
The Supreme Court delivers its full ruling into why the Government’s website for the Children’s Referendum was not impartial.
Alan Farrell hopes to introduce legislation that would see all elections and referenda held on weekends or rest days and insists he has not been deterred by Saturday’s low turnout.
Which do you think is better…midweek or weekend?
The turnout to vote was low all around the country – but the highest and lowest turnout coincided with constituencies at either end of the Yes and No vote…
Which electoral area had the highest proportion of ‘Yes’ votes? Which one had the highest percentage of ‘No’ ballots? And into which top 10 does the Taoiseach’s home constituency fall?
The Yes vote has been passed, but issues could remain around turnout, Saturday voting, and whether the result will be challenged.
Meanwhile, Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald defended her role in leading the referendum campaign.
CSPE should educate on how the economy, government and tax fits together, rather than just how proportional representation works, writes Aaron McKenna.
Do you need ID to vote? Are you registered to vote? The answers to these, and more.
The site had been taken down following a Supreme Court ruling yesterday morning, but then put back online with most of its content removed.
The government’s scaled-down version of ChildrensReferendum.ie needed amending this evening after it omitted part of the referendum being held on Saturday.
Children’s minister Frances Fitzgerald says the Office of the Attorney General gave legal advice on the website and booklet.
The Irish and US political systems are different – but both have their good points, writes Professor Maura Adshead.
