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Former government minister Michael Lowry refuses to resign the seat he recently claimed back in Dáil Éireann in the aftermath of the Moriarty Tribunal's findings that he assisted billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien "beyond doubt" in gaining a mobile phone license for Esat Digifone, in actions judged "disgraceful and insidious" by the tribunal. Taoiseach Enda Kenny admits Fine Gael accepted a donation worth thousands of dollars from Esat at the time.
2011-03-24

Phil Hogan says Fine Gael and the Labour Party have agreed a draft of a proposed Programme for Government as talks between the political parties resume at Government Buildings in Dublin following the recent general election.
2011-03-5

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny receives international congratulations from Angela Merkel, David Cameron and José Manuel Barroso, with Cameron inviting him to 10 Downing Street.
2011-02-27

The first seat of the general election goes to Labour Party finance spokeswoman Joan Burton, who tops the poll in the Dublin West constituency. Leo Varadkar of Fine Gael and Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party take the second and third seats respectively in this four-seat constituency.
2011-02-26

As the ruling Fianna Fáil party faces national wipeout, outgoing Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr is saved by his own personality. He takes the final seat in the Dublin West constituency, the only Fianna Fáil candidate elected from 47 seats across the capital, with his brother Conor Lenihan and aunt Mary O'Rourke losing out in their bids for re-election elsewhere.
2011-02-26

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny tops the poll in the Mayo constituency and claims that the results are a "massive endorsement" of his party.
2011-02-26

John Gormley, leader of the ruling coalition's Green Party and former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is eliminated in the Dublin South–East constituency.
2011-02-26

Taoiseach Brian Cowen promises to dissolve Dáil Éireann next Tuesday and to announce the date of the Irish general election, 2011.
2011-01-28

Bertie Ahern, the former taoiseach who led the stricken Fianna Fáil political party from 1994 until 2008, announces he is to resign from Dáil Éireann at the forthcoming general election.
2010-12-30

Irish Minister for Justice and Law Reform Dermot Ahern announces he is not to contest his seat in Dáil Éireann at the next general election (due in 2011) as he has "a painful medical condition necessitating heavy medication".
2010-11-30