# Alan Kelly

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Alan Kelly: Ireland must face up to its climate change obligations

Outgoing Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly is in New York as over 150 countries sign the historic Paris climate deal.

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Apr 22nd 2016, 1:04 PM

# After Joan

It looks like this man could be the next Labour leader

Brendan Howlin is emerging as the clear favourite to succeed Joan Burton.

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Mar 31st 2016, 5:26 PM

# calls to step aside

Joan Burton will decide her fate as Labour leader after a government is formed

Meanwhile, Alan Kelly apologised for comments he made about power being a drug that suited him.

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Mar 30th 2016, 9:10 PM

# Housing Crisis

Fingal County Council confirms it's trying to buy Tyrrelstown houses

The council said that talks with the developer had not progressed as of yet.

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Mar 23rd 2016, 9:19 AM

# Protest

Alan Kelly: Fingal County Council is trying to buy Tyrrelstown houses

Some 100 families face the threat of eviction.

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Mar 22nd 2016, 11:00 PM

# glad it's over

10 things about Ireland's general election the world needs to understand

Political discourse can involve One Direction. That’s how it works here.

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Mar 3rd 2016, 9:30 PM

# helluva drug

Alan Kelly's re-election reaction is already turning into a glorious meme

Bit of power. Be grand.

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Feb 28th 2016, 4:00 PM

# Trip to Tipp

Environment Minister Alan Kelly has kept his seat

“Tomorrow we start rebuilding this party.”

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Feb 28th 2016, 2:56 PM

# GE16 Fact Check

FactCheck: The truth and the lies from TV3's Deputy Leaders' Debate

TheJournal.ie’s GE16 FactCheck has sifted through the claims made by Kelly, McDonald, Reilly and Cowen.

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Feb 16th 2016, 10:39 PM

# manifesto

Alan Kelly: What Labour has achieved is astonishing

The party also called plans to abolish Irish Water “farcical”.

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Feb 15th 2016, 12:53 PM

Voices

'Power is a drug': Alan Kelly's recent interview showed the true colours of Irish politics

We need more than narcissism and hubris in Irish politics, writes Tom Clonan.

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Feb 7th 2016, 8:00 AM

# GE16 Fact Check

FactCheck: Is Alan Kelly right to say 80% of people are paying for water?

TheJournal.ie’s GE16 FactCheck has tested an eye-catching claim by the Minister for the Environment.

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Feb 6th 2016, 9:00 PM

# AK-47

Alan Kelly is astonished at claims he verbally attacked Newstalk presenter

“I don’t think that’s a fair question. No, obviously not.”

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Feb 5th 2016, 4:54 PM

# Election fever

Joan Burton says Alan Kelly is 'an incredibly obedient employee'

Meanwhile, Gerry Adams says that 15 seats would be a good election for Sinn Féin.

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Feb 3rd 2016, 3:45 PM

# That's him told

Slapped down: Joan Burton insists she IS Alan Kelly's boss

The Labour deputy leader said yesterday that in politics “you are your own boss”.

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Feb 1st 2016, 3:52 PM

# Election fever

Everyone hopes Enda will reveal all tomorrow

We mean the date of the election of course.

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Feb 1st 2016, 3:25 PM

# new bin charges

New bin charges will see individual bags banned

Councils will have the power to allow people living in areas unsuitable for wheelie bin collection be able to use them.

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Feb 1st 2016, 12:20 PM

# The last hurrah

7 things we learned at the Labour conference

At its last big gathering before the election, Labour was doing an awful lot of standing up in Mullingar today.

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Jan 30th 2016, 9:30 PM

# Bullish

Labour reckons its incredibly fabulous candidates can win 36 seats

Ministers are in confident mood as the party’s one-day conference gets underway in Mullingar.

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Jan 30th 2016, 11:36 AM

# Nowhere to be seen

Alan Kelly was canvassing last night while the Dáil debated homelessness

The Labour deputy leader, who has described the issue as his number one priority, was seeking votes in Roscrea.

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Jan 28th 2016, 12:54 PM

# Kelly's heroes

A bullish Alan Kelly reckons Labour will win a lot more than 15 seats

Big talk from Labour’s deputy leader this morning.

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Jan 27th 2016, 10:48 AM

# Analysis

Why the John Delaney controversy is another (avoidable) fiasco for Labour

Analysis: Labour should be keeping its head down. Instead the party’s most senior figures are committing own goals.

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Jan 19th 2016, 8:00 PM

# Nothing To See Here

Alan Kelly is fine with John Delaney telling Tipperary people to vote for him

The Environment Minister’s trip around Tipperary with the FAI boss has sparked a political controversy.

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Jan 19th 2016, 4:40 PM

# Nothing To See Here

Fine Gael minister defends photo of Alan Kelly 'canvassing' with FAI chief John Delaney

“What anyone does in their own personal time is their own business,” says transport minister Paschal Donohoe.

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Jan 17th 2016, 8:07 PM

# Analysis

How two Labour ministers turned death threats into a political weapon

Now one TD says they owe “hundreds of thousands of people” an apology.

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Jan 16th 2016, 2:49 PM

# Courts

'Lonely' woman who made Alan Kelly and Dáil bomb hoaxes also threatened Michael D Higgins

Anne Fennell’s sentence has been adjourned to allow for the medical treatment.

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Jan 15th 2016, 5:45 PM

# haven't gone away

'Delusional' Alan Kelly claims water charges have gone off the agenda

Others disagree.

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Jan 5th 2016, 1:13 PM

# taken to task

Alarm company says it met with Alan Kelly after tender had been decided

Task Alarms says there are major problems with how the tender was structured.

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Dec 25th 2015, 6:10 AM

# New Rules

Dublin City Council apologises for planner saying Alan Kelly had been 'bamboozled'

Comments were made in the Irish Times this morning.

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Dec 22nd 2015, 5:55 PM

# tiny

Kelly says apartment sizes aren't "shoebox living"

The plans have been criticised, but Kelly is steadfast.

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Dec 22nd 2015, 9:11 AM

# Cause for alarm?

Alan Kelly told to 'come clean' about meeting with company which won €3.6m State contracts

Kelly met with two representatives from the company, but says he did not know they would be there.

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Dec 16th 2015, 12:15 PM

# close to the brink

Will landlords forego extra rent to help families on the brink of homelessness?

One charity is asking them to consider it.

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Dec 12th 2015, 10:30 PM

# taken to task

Alan Kelly faces "serious questions" over meeting with company that won state tender

Deputy Paul Murphy says “serious irregularities occurred” around a meeting involving Alan Kelly and another Labour TD.

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Dec 10th 2015, 10:21 AM

# Solutions

This is Sinn Féin's radical plan to solve the housing crisis

Rents linked to inflation and the abolition of the property tax are on the party’s agenda.

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Dec 4th 2015, 6:10 AM

# Not a bad thing

Alan Kelly doesn't care that he got totes emosh last night

The Environment Minister is said to have shed tears at last night’s Labour parliamentary party meeting.

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Dec 3rd 2015, 6:08 PM

# wasn't me

Alan Kelly got totes emosh in Leinster House tonight

The Labour deputy leader denied to colleagues that he had leaked internal polling.

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Dec 2nd 2015, 7:59 PM

# Homelessness

One year on from Jonathan Corrie's death, we're still relying on short-term solutions

His death, on a cold November night, sparked nationwide outrage, but what has changed?

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Dec 1st 2015, 9:03 PM

# wasn't me

Alan Kelly denies leaking internal Labour polling

Kelly has brushed off accusations that he leaked the results of internal party polls.

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Nov 30th 2015, 9:14 AM

# Boundary review

'It's like these two buckos woke up one morning and decided to change a border'

One Fine Gael TD is not happy that the border between Waterford and Kilkenny might be moved.

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Nov 25th 2015, 6:36 PM

# through the roof

There was an almighty jump in rents while everyone waited for price controls

Cork and Galway have had their biggest increases in at least 10 years.

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Nov 17th 2015, 10:35 AM