The major opposition parties joined her on stage to endorse the left-wing presidential candidate from Galway.

Eoin Hayes won’t be suspended or expelled from the Social Democrats

Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Ms Cairns added that her party would be financially supporting Ms Connolly’s campaign and was now working out the exact nature of that support.

That is despite the house sitting just once in December

Eoin Hayes was suspended after misleading the media about when he sold shares in a company linked to the Israeli military.

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Ms McDonald has reached out to the Social Democrats and Labour Party, but the numbers to make up a Sinn Féin-led coalition look unlikely

Fianna Fáil is on course to be Ireland’s largest party after the general election

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael looked well placed to return to power but Sinn Fein insists it could be part of a new government of the left.

Outgoing coalition partners Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, however, claim they are well placed to return to power following Ireland’s General Election

The party, founded in 2015, look like they could be possible kingmakers in the next government.

The Cork South-West candidate has described being heavily pregnant and running for election as ‘a juggling act’.

Leaders of the smaller left parties had a chance to debate against the larger parties and amongst themselves when Katie Hannon hosted the first televised leaders’ debate of the election campaign earlier this month.

Launching its manifesto, Cian O’Callaghan outlined a series of ‘red lines’ that his party would require before contemplating entering government.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the Help to Buy scheme was like giving voters ‘a tiny shovel to get out of a massive hole’.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dáil term would ‘send a powerful message’

Taoiseach Simon Harris said the scheme giving grants to first-time buyers was helping people to bridge the gap.

Holly Cairns said ministers have tried to ‘splash cash around indiscriminately’.

Party leader Holly Cairns outlined a number of long-term measures to ‘genuinely transform people’s lives’.

The party leader said the Social Democrats would go to the electorate making it clear that it wanted to be part of the next ruling coalition.

Simon Harris said ‘the effort to make her some sort of bogey woman does not tally at all with the action she is taking’.

Current party leader Holly Cairns paid tribute to the pair, describing them as 'trailblazers in Irish politics'

Natasha O’Brien was attacked by a serving member of the Defence Forces on a night out in Limerick in 2022.

Simon Harris said there should be no place in the Irish Defence Forces for personnel with criminal convictions.

Social Demcorats leader Holly Cairns told the Oireachtas that costs of running primary schools have soared.

The Cork South-West TD said she felt vulnerable announcing the pregnancy after going through two miscarriages in the past year.

The Fianna Fail leader hit back at Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, who accused him of ‘spin’.

As health minister in 2017, Mr Harris set a target that no child would be waiting longer than four months for scoliosis surgery.

Mr Harris has 95,100 TikTok followers and 172,000 Instagram followers

‘We don’t need a new Fine Gael taoiseach. We need a new government,’ Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said.

It brings many questions around the next leader of the country, what it means for the Coalition, and whether it will bring about the next general election

Ireland is also pursuing the possibility of assisting with aid airdrops into the region.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the State’s ‘neglect’ towards disability was ‘ruining lives’.

Cork City Councillor Mary Rose Desmond said it was "shocking to think that any public representative, or anybody at all in society, would have to close their premises for safety reasons"

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has said that Labour does not have the same practices as her party

Social Democrats Holly Cairns leader has criticised other parties for not being honest with the public about the scale of change needed.

The new Social Democrats leader reflects on her time in office as Social Democrats leader.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said there has been no official confirmation whether the nine-year-old Irish-Israeli girl will be set free.