The people of Ireland will go to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to Michael D Higgins as president of the country.

The two presidential candidates were quizzed about their past records and plans for the presidency during the debate on RTE Radio 1.

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

The Fianna Fáil nomination process for a presidential candidate has closed.

The Taoiseach said former pop star Geldof was one of a number of people who had expressed an interest in running for the role.

‘This is about the presidency, its not about Fianna Fáil,’ the party leader said.

The most common trigger for these experiences was immigration, according to Coimisiún na Meán research.

Entrepreneur Gareth Sheridan has claimed that he has been the victim of a ‘co-ordinated attack’ by people close to his former business associate.

Two hopefuls have announced their intention to seek Fine Gael’s nomination for president.

The former Labour party leader said ‘one should always keep one’s options open’, when asked if would rule out a bid for the role.

Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan has said it was unacceptable that details about An Post were revealed at a Cabinet meeting and that ongoing issues with restructuring were “conflated” with concerns raised by postmasters

Kildare county councillor Angela Feeney told the High Court in Dublin that there were issues around transparency of counting votes.

The Electoral Commission said it was ‘deeply concerned’ about legacy accuracy issues in registers maintained by local authorities across the country.

She will serve alongside Gavin Robinson who has been re-elected as DUP leader.

The last elected were independent candidate Eileen Flynn, Sinn Féin’s Nicole Ryan and Fianna Fáil’s Fiona O’Loughlin and Diarmuid Wilson.

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Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald said her party is the only one that Fianna Fáil has not spoken to in terms of a new coalition government.

Fianna Fail was the clear winner of the recent poll, securing 48 of the Dail’s 174 seats, ahead of Sinn Fein on 39 and Fine Gael on 38.

There is little over a week left until polling day.

The Fine Gael leader said: ‘We need to call that out.’

Tanaiste Simon Harris and Tanaiste Micheal Martin both condemned the proposal to examine the broadcaster’s objectivity.

Micheál Martin said John McGahon would not be running in the election if he was a member of Fianna Fáil.

A new opinion poll has put support for Simon Harris’s party on 25 per cent, ahead of both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin on 19%.

Mary Lou McDonald is hoping to lead Sinn Fein into government in Ireland after the election on November 29.

Richard Boyd Barrett said government parties want to drag Ireland into escalating conflicts.

Louise O’Reilly said the parties are not ‘fooling anybody’ by arguing about their differences when they ‘agree of pretty much everything’

The two party leaders hit the campaign trail on Monday to vie for votes.

Simon Harris said the election will be called by the end of the week.

Simon Harris said the Finance Bill must be passed before the Dail is dissolved.

The country will go to the polls before Christmas.

Coalition leaders have suggested they want to make progress on some pieces of legislation before any election

The Commission also said that the layout and design of the ballot papers for referendums were not sufficiently clear.

Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin got ‘a knock’ after the party put in a poor performance earlier this month.

Leo Varadkar said ‘an instability’ could have been created if one Government party had got too far ahead of the other

Sinn Fein’s leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has paid tribute to Michelle Gildernew’s efforts in the European election

‘We won’t be told by anyone else how to do our elections,’ Taoiseach Simon Harris said

Fianna Fáil has doubled its presence in the European Parliament

Mr Flanagan promised his constituents he would not let them down.

Fianna Fáil has retained its two seats, and is on track to obtain at least one more

The Cork man was re-elected after the 18th count in the 10-county constituency.

In the European elections, despite days of counting votes, it is not yet clear whether Sinn Fein will increase its tally of MEPs.

Kathleen Funchion got 61 per cent of transfers from her running mate Paul Gavan’s eliminated share.

Sinn Fein are still in a battle to gain a European Parliament seat, as counting continues in two of three constituencies.