🚨 🇮🇪 BREAKING | Maria Steen, who failed to secure a nomination in this year's presidential election, will NOT run in the Dublin Central by-election.

🚨 🇮🇪 BREAKING | Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ray McAdam, looks set to seek the Fine Gael nomination to run in the Dublin Central by-election. (@rtenews)

🚨 🇮🇪 NEW | Independent Ireland leader, Michael Collins, says the party will run a candidate in the Dublin Central by-election. He also called on the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections to be held as soon as possible.

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🚨🇮🇪 NEW | Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, who narrowly failed to secure a seat at the last general election, is “seriously considering” running in the Dublin Central by-election.

🚨🇮🇪BREAKING | Cllr. Malachy Steenson (IND) announces his intention to run in the Dublin Central by-election.

🚨 🇮🇪 NEW | Jennifer Whitmore and Danny Healy Rae clash in Dáil Éireann during the Mercosur deal debate.

🚨 🇺🇸 BREAKING | US House of Representatives has voted to release the Epstein files.

🚨BREAKING | President Catherine Connolly has appointed Hildegarde Naughton as Minister for Education and Youth.

🗳️BY ELECTION | Following Paschal Donohoe’s resignation, there will now be TWO by-elections taking place in 2026. - Galway West (to replace President Connolly) - Dublin Central (to replace Donohoe)

🚨🇮🇪 | The cabinet reshuffle has now been completed, following Paschal Donohoe’s resignation earlier today. Finance - Simon Harris Foreign Affairs and Defense - Helen McEntee Education - Hildegarde Naughton All other ministers remain in post.

🚨 🇨🇦 BREAKING 🚨 Canadian government budget PASSES through the House of Commons, preventing a snap election. ✅ YES: 170 🚫 NO: 168

🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING | Canadian Green Party MP, Elizabeth May, says she will vote for the Liberal government’s budget. This now means that Mark Carney needs either one more vote or two abstentions for his first budget to pass.

🇨🇦 NEW: In Canada today, Prime Minister Mark Carney is hoping to have his first budget approved by the Canadian Parliament. If it does not pass, his minority government will collapse and a snap election will be called, just months after the Liberal Party won a 4th term.

🚨NEW: Leaders of the opposition and Senator Frances Black have called on the government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill before Christmas.

🚨NEW: President Catherine Connolly congratulates the Irish men's football team, after they qualified for the World Cup playoffs:

President Catherine Connolly arrives at tonight's State Reception at Dublin Castle: https://t.co/n8kRvgfTlf

President Catherine Connolly has met with Former Presidents Michael D. Higgins, Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson in Áras an Uachtaráin.

President Catherine Connolly held a lunch at Áras an Uachtaráin this afternoon to celebrate her inauguration.

Preparations underway in Dublin Castle’s St Patrick’s Hall where Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tenth President of Ireland shortly @Independent_ie