Friday marks the start of the 119th United States Congress as new members are scheduled to be sworn in on Capitol Hill. As ...

Talks between the country's two main centrist parties about forming a coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party have fallen apart. Here's how things got to this point, and what could ...

Another €1.5m in golden handshakes have been paid to former councillors who left local authority seats, despite many of them failing to quit politics. A recent Sunday Independent investigation ...