The party, founded in 2015, look like they could be possible kingmakers in the next government.

The Cork South-West candidate has described being heavily pregnant and running for election as ‘a juggling act’.

Leaders of the smaller left parties had a chance to debate against the larger parties and amongst themselves when Katie Hannon hosted the first televised leaders’ debate of the election campaign earlier this month.

Launching its manifesto, Cian O’Callaghan outlined a series of ‘red lines’ that his party would require before contemplating entering government.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the Help to Buy scheme was like giving voters ‘a tiny shovel to get out of a massive hole’.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dáil term would ‘send a powerful message’

Taoiseach Simon Harris said the scheme giving grants to first-time buyers was helping people to bridge the gap.

Holly Cairns said ministers have tried to ‘splash cash around indiscriminately’.

Party leader Holly Cairns outlined a number of long-term measures to ‘genuinely transform people’s lives’.

The party leader said the Social Democrats would go to the electorate making it clear that it wanted to be part of the next ruling coalition.

Simon Harris said ‘the effort to make her some sort of bogey woman does not tally at all with the action she is taking’.

Current party leader Holly Cairns paid tribute to the pair, describing them as 'trailblazers in Irish politics'

Natasha O’Brien was attacked by a serving member of the Defence Forces on a night out in Limerick in 2022.

Simon Harris said there should be no place in the Irish Defence Forces for personnel with criminal convictions.

Social Demcorats leader Holly Cairns told the Oireachtas that costs of running primary schools have soared.

The Cork South-West TD said she felt vulnerable announcing the pregnancy after going through two miscarriages in the past year.

The Fianna Fail leader hit back at Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, who accused him of ‘spin’.

As health minister in 2017, Mr Harris set a target that no child would be waiting longer than four months for scoliosis surgery.

Mr Harris has 95,100 TikTok followers and 172,000 Instagram followers

‘We don’t need a new Fine Gael taoiseach. We need a new government,’ Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said.

It brings many questions around the next leader of the country, what it means for the Coalition, and whether it will bring about the next general election

Ireland is also pursuing the possibility of assisting with aid airdrops into the region.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the State’s ‘neglect’ towards disability was ‘ruining lives’.

Cork City Councillor Mary Rose Desmond said it was "shocking to think that any public representative, or anybody at all in society, would have to close their premises for safety reasons"

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has said that Labour does not have the same practices as her party

Social Democrats Holly Cairns leader has criticised other parties for not being honest with the public about the scale of change needed.

The new Social Democrats leader reflects on her time in office as Social Democrats leader.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said there has been no official confirmation whether the nine-year-old Irish-Israeli girl will be set free.