About DáilDex
Ask around. Most people your age know who the Taoiseach is. Fewer know who represents them — the person they either voted for, or didn't bother to, in their own constituency. Fewer still could tell you one thing that TD has actually done in the Dáil this year.
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Choose a frontier model, check official Irish sources and move from an answer into a DáilDex learning guide.
That's not really anyone's fault. Following Irish politics properly means knowing where to look — Oireachtas records, committee minutes, half a dozen news sites, a system that was never built for someone who just wants to know "is my TD actually doing anything." So people don't. Then an election happens, some of them vote anyway, based on a leaflet or a name they half-recognise, and the whole thing repeats.
DáilDex exists because that gap seemed worth closing — not with another dashboard nobody opens, but with something that shows up where people already look: their inbox.
anyone know who our TD even is
no clue man, i did vote tho
Follow any TD or Senator. When they vote, speak, or ask a question in the Dáil or Seanad, you get a short, plain-English email about it, sourced straight from the official record. No jargon, no spin, a link back to the source every time.
If you want to know more, you just reply to the email. Ask a follow-up — how did other TDs vote, has the party said this before, what does the bill actually change — and you get an answer back in the same thread, sourced the same way.
That's the whole product. No app to download, no dashboard to remember to check. It comes to you.
Every TD and Senator, watched around the clock. Nothing waits for someone to notice a vote or a speech. The official record is checked continuously, and anything new is reported within minutes, sourced straight back to where it happened.
Every alert names where it came from. The official record always comes first — news and social feeds are supplementary, and nothing goes out until it's checked against the source.
Primary source
Votes, Dáil and Seanad contributions, parliamentary questions, committee work, and member records — pulled straight from the Houses of the Oireachtas public API and linked back on every alert.
api.oireachtas.ieSelected political coverage for context around Dáil activity — always secondary to the official record.
Parliamentary and policy reporting, used where it adds useful background to what happened in the Dáil.
Political news and analysis from one of the main national outlets — cited, not summarised without a link.
Social accounts too. We follow the official Oireachtas feeds and major newsroom political accounts on X and other public channels — mostly as an early signal that something's happening. Nothing is reported from social alone; it always gets checked against the record before an alert goes out.
DáilDex doesn't tell you who's good or bad, who's lying, who's corrupt. It's not built to have an opinion — it's built to show you the record and let you form your own. Every alert links back to where it came from, so nothing you get is just "trust us."
DáilDex doesn't rate representatives, rank parties, or tell you who's right. It reports what happened and links to the source.
No representative, party or campaign can pay for placement, better wording, or a say in what gets sent. Structural, not a promise.
What you follow says something about what you care about. That's yours — never sold, never shared with parties or campaigns.
If you're a TD or Senator and want to verify there's no bias baked in — we're happy to walk you through the full source code, on a call or in person. Nothing hidden. The point isn't "trust us"; it's "look if you want to."
Nobody's data is for sale. Ever. Not to parties, not to campaigns, not to anyone. What you follow says something about what you care about, and that's yours, not a product.
The base version — following TDs and Senators, getting alerts — is free, permanently, for anyone in Ireland who wants it. That's not a trial. Keeping this genuinely open to people who can't or won't pay is the whole point; the day it costs money to know what your own representative is doing, it's failed at what it set out to do.
Follow TDs and Senators, get plain-English alerts. Open to anyone in Ireland, for as long as DáilDex exists.
For readers who want to ask a lot more follow-up questions than the free allowance covers.
Search and export tools for journalists and researchers who need to work at scale.
For anyone who just wants to back it directly. Never required to use the free service.
Built by one person in Ireland who noticed the gap and got annoyed enough to fix it. Independent — not backed by a party, a media company, or anyone with a stake in how any of this gets covered. If that changes, it'll say so here.
— still building it.
Pick a TD or Senator and confirm your email. DáilDex will take it from there.