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Jim Gavin defeated former junior minister Billy Kelleher in a secret ballot of the parliamentary party on Tuesday.

The Sinn Fein leader said her name would ‘not go forward’ as the party’s nominee for president.

The Sinn Fein vice president refused to be drawn on whether her own party would be running a candidate in next month’s presidential election.

So far, just two candidates have secured enough support to get on the ballot paper.

Jack Chambers told reporters it was his understanding that Mr Gavin will seek the party’s nomination.

On this year’s International Women’s Day, Ireland votes on whether to remove the decades-old ‘women in the home’ clause from its constitution, alongside a second referendum on revising the definition of family. Despite a desire to remove the gendered and outdated language of the 'women in the home' clause, concern…

The Government will hold a number of consultative forums next week in Cork, Galway and Dublin about the future of Ireland’s neutrality.