The UK's electoral watchdog has imposed a £250 fine on the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) following an investigation into its accounting records. The party failed to keep ...
Electoral Law
Legislation to extend the franchise for Seanad's university seats is to be introduced in response to a Supreme Court ruling last year. Mr Justice Gerard Hogan ruled ...
An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland's independent electoral commission, has published its first-ever annual report. The watchdog, chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Ms Justice Marie Baker, was established ...
A new voluntary framework designed to help online platforms and search engines tackle misinformation ahead of this June's elections has been launched by An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland’s ...
The European Commission has published new guidelines aimed at tackling online risks to the integrity of elections. The guidelines recommend mitigation measures and best practices to be ...
Ireland's independent electoral commission, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, has formally launched the independent information campaign for the two constitutional referendums taking place in March. An Coimisiún Toghcháin has ...
Two referendums seeking approval to change what the Constitution says about family and care, including the controversial provision about women's "life within the home", are to be ...
An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland’s new independent electoral commission, has published its first draft research programme for 2024–26. Established earlier this year, An Coimisiún holds a new and ...
The Dáil should be made up of 174 TDs elected from 43 constituencies, Ireland's newly-established statutory electoral commission, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, has recommended. In a report published ...
The Supreme Court will tomorrow begin hearing arguments on the timing of its proposed declaration on the unconstitutionality of the laws governing elections for Seanad University Panels. ...
The Supreme Court has upheld a challenge to the constitutionality of the laws governing elections for Seanad University Panels. The legal proceedings were brought by a graduate ...
Ms Justice Marie Baker has been appointed as chairperson of An Coimisiún Toghcháin, the new statutory electoral watchdog formally established from today. The Supreme Court judge's appointment ...
Professor Caroline Fennell, a professor emerita of law at University College Cork, is among the first four people nominated for appointment to the new Electoral Commission, which ...
The establishment of a new statutory and independent Electoral Commission will now proceed following the approval of legislation. The Electoral Reform Bill — intended to "bring about ...
The UK government has been accused of undermining free and fair elections after securing support in the Lords for its plans to give ministers more control over ...