# brian-hayes - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
# Integration
# Integration
Irish MEP Brian Hayes says more needs to be done to make sure these people feel part and parcel of Ireland.
# brian-hayes - Wednesday 31 December, 2014
# Ethnic Cleansing
# Ethnic Cleansing
“Toppling Saddam was the easy bit from a western perspective.”
# brian-hayes - Wednesday 17 December, 2014
# 6 Years On
# 6 Years On
What happened in the days and weeks leading up to the bank guarantee of 30 September 2008? TheJournal.ie presents an in-depth account from the people who were in the thick of it.
# brian-hayes - Monday 8 December, 2014
# Kicking Back
# Kicking Back
The luxleaks scandal has given Germany and France “cover” to push their agendas, the MEP says.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 18 November, 2014
# No Show
# No Show
The central bank has been accused of treating Ireland with disdain.
# brian-hayes - Friday 14 November, 2014
# Privatisation
# Privatisation
The Fine Gael MEP believes legislation is a more sensible option.
# brian-hayes - Thursday 13 November, 2014
# Horse Bolted Etc
# Horse Bolted Etc
The European Commission president was happy to talk up his work luring multinationals when he was Luxembourg’s premier.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
# Single Supervisory Mechanism
# Single Supervisory Mechanism
Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes explains the detail of the new pan-eurozone Single Supervisory Mechanism.
# brian-hayes - Saturday 11 October, 2014
# Always Going To Happen
# Always Going To Happen
The Fine Gael MEP, whose Dáil seat is up for grabs today, is not surprised with the by-election outcome.
# brian-hayes - Monday 29 September, 2014
# Explainer
# Explainer
Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes explains the process of confirming the make-up of the next European Commission.
# brian-hayes - Friday 29 August, 2014
# Voting Time
# Voting Time
The two votes are likely to take place before the Budget in October.
# brian-hayes - Monday 11 August, 2014
# Big Philly Style
# Big Philly Style
Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes says the decision is a matter for Jean Claude Juncker…
# brian-hayes - Sunday 10 August, 2014
# Voting Rights
# Voting Rights
Under the new system, for one month every year Ireland will not be able to vote.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
# Selfie Central
# Selfie Central
It’s all happening in Strasbourg…
# brian-hayes - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Sinn Féin
# Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin’s Cathal King will not contest the by-election later this year and would prefer to see a woman candidate nominated.
# brian-hayes - Monday 16 June, 2014
# Tough Break
# Tough Break
Luke Ming Flanagan and Brian Hayes automatically vacated their Dáil seats last month and won’t officially become MEPs into July.
# brian-hayes - Friday 13 June, 2014
# Brian Hayes
# Brian Hayes
The former prime minister of Luxembourg is part of a developing crisis that threatens to be one of the greatest faced by the European Union.
# brian-hayes - Sunday 1 June, 2014
# By-election
# By-election
The junior minister’s departure creates a vacancy in his Dublin South-West Dáil constituency.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 27 May, 2014
# Best Of Friends
# Best Of Friends
The newly-elected Fine Gael MEP is at opposite end of the political spectrum to the new MEP for Midlands North-West.
# brian-hayes - Monday 26 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The counting and the recounting is all done at the RDS as Green Party leader Eamon Ryan misses out on a seat.
# Green Shoots
# Green Shoots
Ryan finished in a tight fourth place in the three-seater Euro constituency. Indpendent MEP Nessa Childers has also arrived at the RDS this afternoon.
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The Green Party leader is less than 1,200 votes behind Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes and has asked for a recount on Monday. Earlier, Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan took the first of three available seats in the capital.
# brian-hayes - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
Plenty of laughs and plenty of disinterested commuters.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Not Now
# Not Now
The finance minister said acting this week would be dismissed as a “stunt”.
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
It’s the most geographically coherent of all the constituencies but the battle for three seats is a competitive one.
# brian-hayes - Saturday 10 May, 2014
# Blame Game
# Blame Game
Labour’s candidate says it was “the commission of Rehn and Barroso” that imposed hardship.
# brian-hayes - Friday 9 May, 2014
# Elections 2014
# Elections 2014
The junior Minister and Dublin MEP candidate said the North would be badly hurt by a UK withdrawal from Europe.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 6 May, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
With posters erected all over the country we’ve found out what work, if any, candidates have had done on their pictures.
# brian-hayes - Wednesday 30 April, 2014
# Quite The Pair
# Quite The Pair
“It’s okay touching the shoulder, isn’t it? It’s one of the safe areas?”
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
# Gubu
# Gubu
Fine Gael’s campaign videos for its six MEP candidates are nice productions, but bizarre in places….
# Dublin Dogfight
# Dublin Dogfight
The Fine Gael candidate in Dublin could be in danger of not winning a seat according to an opinion poll at the weekend.
# brian-hayes - Monday 28 April, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The Taoiseach was speaking at the launch of Fine Gael’s European election campaign in Dublin this afternoon.
# Analysis
# Analysis
There’s plenty for the political parties and the independents to think about after the first European election poll at the weekend.
# brian-hayes - Friday 4 April, 2014
# OPW
# OPW
The massive 3 x 2 metre painting depicts the 1014 battle, in which Brian Boru was killed.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Flood Funding
# Flood Funding
Clare has been allocated almost half of the money made available.
# brian-hayes - Sunday 9 March, 2014
# Serious Business
# Serious Business
The junior minister said he definitely won’t be running in the next general election if he makes it to Europe.
# brian-hayes - Sunday 2 March, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
Emmett Hegarty put 30 hours a week into Brian Hayes ’ 2011 campaign. Now he will seek election to South Dublin County Council for Fianna Fáil.
# brian-hayes - Saturday 1 March, 2014
# Fine Gael Ard Fheis
# Fine Gael Ard Fheis
On day two of the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, the Minister for Finance has given the clearest indication yet that a tax cut is on the way.
# brian-hayes - Wednesday 26 February, 2014
# Insurance
# Insurance
A memorandum of understanding is also due to be introduced for flooding repairs in the near future.
# brian-hayes - Tuesday 18 February, 2014
# Election 2014
# Election 2014
The junior minister was formally selected as the Fine Gael candidate for the European elections in Dublin at an event in the city centre this evening.
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