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The party is up five points to 9% in the latest snapshot of voter intentions recorded in the Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll.

Ms Cairns, 33, took over as leader just a couple of days ago, after Ms Shorthall and Catherine Murphy announced their departure as party leaders

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns that he hopes that this will be the year that the Government "turns the corner on housing".

In letters sent to Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, People Before Profit said Fianna Fail and Fine Gael should be left out of future Governments.

Holly Cairns will officially become the leader of the Social Democrats at a meeting of the party on Tuesday.

The firebrand socialist has become well known for her views on issues such as the Mother and Baby Homes scandal

The co-chief of Germany's ruling Social Democrats (SPD) is sceptical about NATO's goal for each member to spend 2% of economic output on defence, according to a newspaper report, underscoring ambivalence in the country about bolstering the military.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht, the dpa news agency reported Tuesday. The defense minister-designate, Boris Pistorius, is a member of Scholz’ Social Democrats, and has been serving as interior minister of Lower Saxony…

Germany would be forced to cut ties with China in the way it has with Russia should China attack Taiwan, the leader of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) told the weekly Die Zeit in comments published on Wednesday.