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GE2024Final CountdownAt a glance: The candidates have been making their last-ditch attempts to earn your vote
GE2024Looking BackProgramme for Government: How the outgoing coalition did on some of its key promises
Ribbon cutting
Clontarf to city centre cycle lane opens, but some express ‘frustration’ over missed deadlines
GE2024Housing CrisisHere's what Ireland's political parties are promising for renters and prospective homeowners
GE2024FactCheckFactCheck: Are a third of hotels and B&Bs outside the M50 used to house asylum seekers?
GE2024WaterfordWaterford TD apologises for 'upset' caused by projecting election ad onto palliative care building
GE2024the race is onWho's running in your constituency? Find out with The Journal's candidate database
South Sudan
In South Sudan with aid boss John Rynne: 'The maps drawn in colonial times are starting to erode'
Niall O’Connor travelled to South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the forgotten African crisis. This is his third dispatch from the region.
GE2024Explainer
General election: How does PR-STV work and should I vote the whole way down the ballot paper?
Allow us to explain.
Green Party
Independents do not provide stability to coalitions, says Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman
GE2024Cliffs notesWe read manifestos so you don't have to: Here's what the 3 big parties promise on 3 key areas
inheritance tax
Where do the main parties (and former minister Alan Shatter) stand on inheritance tax?
Social Media
TikTok approved 'obvious' election-related disinformation ads, including in Irish language
kanturk chats
'Prices are bedamned': Kanturk locals on the election and the Taoiseach's supermarket slip-up
The Journal headed for the town today and spoke to local people to get their view on the fallout from the one real standout moment from an otherwise insipid campaign.
GE2024UndecidedHarris 'not sure' if he'd ask Fine Gael candidate John McGahon to canvass with him in Louth
GE2024Rock OnFine Gael's Noel Rock says 'public can decide' if Dáil work conflicts with past lobbying career
GE2024General Election
Here is where Ireland's political parties stand on Gaza
Many Irish voters feel passionately about the Palestinian cause and want their public representatives to do more on the issue.
GE2024ge24
Who's 'jiving' into Government? No clear answer as gloves fail to come off in final TV debate
McDonald says FF and FG can’t be allowed ‘jive’ their way back into Government Buildings.
As it happened
Leaders squeeze in jabs late in debate, ruling out Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil working with Sinn Féin
The leaders of the three biggest parties took part in the RTÉ Prime Time debate this evening.
GE2024debunkedFactCheck: Image of Simon Harris poster saying 'more waste, it wasn't me' has been doctored
Dublin Central
Clare Daly defends criticism of government over ‘single male’ asylum seekers in East Wall
Election Posters
Gardaí launch enquiries into 'divisive' anti-immigration election posters in Dublin
impersonators
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Soc Dems say Bluesky accounts posting under their names are fake
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