RTE News: Ireland sets Feb 8 for new countrywide elections

The General Election is to be held on Saturday 8 February after President Michael D Higgins dissolved the 32nd Dáil this afternoon. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar briefed the Cabinet and opposition leaders this morning, before travelling to Áras an Uachtaráin to hold a short meeting with President Higgins.

This is the first time since 1918 that there will be a Saturday General Election.

For details on this report from RTE, fllow link below.

After 3 years of acrimony, N Ireland has a government again

By Ed Forry
January 13, 2020

 

by Jill Lawless, Jan 11, 2020 LONDON (AP) — Legislators returned to Northern Ireland’s assembly Saturday for the first time in three years after a deal was struck to restore the divided region’s mothballed power-sharing government.

Lawmakers gathered at Parliament Buildings in Belfast and chose a new executive, led by the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party and the Irish nationalists Sinn Fein. Legislators picked DUP leader Arlene Foster as first minister — a post she held before the previous assembly was dissolved — with Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neil as deputy leader.

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