Simon Harris is like a stale pint that’s sat on the bar for an hour. You’re never going to lap up his Major-esque “return to traditional values” mantra.

It means Harris, Micheal Martin and Mary Lou McDonald go into tonight's RTE Prime Time election TV debate more or less on level pegging at 19 to 20pc with voters and all to play for.

Simon Harris has become the youngest-ever prime minister of Ireland, officially taking office in Dublin on Tuesday after Leo Varadkar suddenly stepped down last month.

Yet there are some important differences between then and now. This time around, Simon Harris is clearly not going to make the same mistake as Varadkar did and allow undue caution to hold him back ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Simon Harris became Ireland's youngest ever prime minister on Tuesday, pledging to bring new ideas and energy to the less than 12 months he has boost the coalition government's ...

Simon Harris was three years into a university degree when he dropped out in 2008. A job had come up as a parliamentary assistant to an Irish senator, and Mr. Harris, an ambitious 20-year-old from ...