Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said any potential changes to allow Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to be allowed to vote in ...

Both propose enabling Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to vote in presidential elections. Restricting the franchise to Irish citizens could be seen as respecting British sovereignty and unionist ...

Political party Aontú has submitted a bill to allow Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland to vote in presidential elections in the Republic. Leader Peadar Tóibín said the party had ...

Sinn Féin leaders are urging the Irish Government to make presidential voting rights for Irish citizens in the North "a priority." A Sinn Fein motion calling for Irish presidential voting rights for ...

Michelle O’Neill, First Minister of Northern Ireland and vice-president of Sinn Fein, urges Dublin to push ahead with ...

"It is time to extend voting rights in elections for President of Ireland to all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland," Sinn Féin MLA Declan Kearney says.

Most interestingly the vote in Northern Ireland could signal ... seeks to pose a serious threat at the next election. In Northern Ireland, people voted to elect 90 Assembly Members and ultimately ...

The deadline for a deal to prop up Northern Ireland’s institutions was 5pm, exactly a week after Sinn Fein deputy first minister Martin McGuinness quit. The only chance of avoiding a snap election was ...

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Over one million Irish people living in Northern Ireland are not eligible to vote in the election, according to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín.