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Wednesday 21 October 2020
It was announced today that an Ard Fheis will be held to elect the party’s new Uachtarán.
Mary Lou McDonald is widely tipped to take over after several senior figures ruled themselves out.
Gerry Adams rejected the assertion of the DUP leader.
Who will take over from Gerry Adams? It won’t be Michelle O’Neill or Pearse Doherty.
Adams will not stand for election in the next Dáíl either.
Adams will not stand for election in the next Dáíl either.
Chairperson Declan Kearney today defended the party’s ethical record.
Adams told the media this week that nothing in his speech this Saturday will impact on the talks in Northern Ireland.
The family of Halawa said they want arrangements for his return to be kept Friday.
Questions are being raised after 500,000 more false garda breath tests have been found.
Sammy Wilson says the language is in decline south of the border.
Adams insisted, however, that he will be leader for the next election.
Michelle O’Neill said the DUP has not acknowledged the reasons for Martin McGuinness’ resignation.
Yet again, both parties failed to reach agreement this week that would restore power-sharing in the North.
The Sinn Féin leader doesn’t expect a power-sharing deal to be reached in Northern Ireland by tomorrow.
Theresa May has called both Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill to outline her government’s desire to see a deal in the North.
The party has called on the Attorney General to not accept her new Court of Appeal role.
Separately, Gerry Adams held talks with Theresa May. The British PM also spoke by phone with Leo Varadkar.
Enda Kenny stepped down as Taoiseach yesterday.
Gerry Adams announced today in the Dáil that he would miss Enda Kenny’s ‘jizz’. He did.
“Sinn Féin stand in British general elections on an abstentionist platform. This is not a new policy.”
The Fine Gael leadership hopeful added that he wants to “take them on”.
The UK Labour leader has been accused of failing to condemn the IRA’s bombing campaigns.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall had a packed schedule today.
An RTÉ Investigates programme broadcast last night called into question whether the man who shot Garda Golden and Siobhán Phillips was in fact a Garda informer.
“We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally” reads the tombstone.
Owen Paterson, a former Northern Ireland Secretary, thinks withholding pay might “crystallise minds”.
The two largest parties in the North are pointing the finger at each other, after talks broke down.
Sinn Féin leader Michelle O’Neill said that negotiations had “come to the end of the road”.
The Policing Authority is to examine the full facts of how and why two massive garda admin errors occurred.
The funeral of the former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister took place in his native Derry this afternoon.
The untimely death of the Sinn Féin politician has brought Ireland’s faltering peace process into sharp focus, writes Tom Clonan.
‘The cuddly grandfather figure that he presented in later life was real – but so too was the guerrilla hard man of the 1970s.’
The two had known each other for over 45 years.
Tributes have poured in across the political divide on the death of McGuinness.
The longstanding Sinn Féin politician had recently stepped down as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland.
Gerry Adams also accused the British government of threatening Sinn Féin with the prospect of another election.
If talks on forming a government collapse, a possible return to direct rule from Westminster is on the table.
The facility at Drumcar has been the subject of a number of HIQA inspections in the past.
WITH LEVEL 5 restrictions coming into effect at midnight until 1 December, many businesses will be forced to close for the next six weeks.
Of course, many Irish businesses have an online presence and in the run-up to Christmas will rely heavily on support here at home.
As the festive season approaches we want to know: Will you make an extra effort to ‘buy irish’ this Christmas?
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This week, a home cook and recent sea swimming convert talks us through her week.
Some sun, then clouds, spotty showers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 6 °C
Cool with a blend of sun and clouds
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Min: 6 °C
Clouds and sun with a couple of showers
Max: 10 °C
Min: 6 °C
