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Calls to gardaí are up 16%.
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Calls to gardaí are up 16%.
Senator McDowell says Ireland can no longer ignore the “clear challenge” of the Chinese Communist Party.
A TD said on RTÉ Radio One at the weekend: “We have stopped measuring suicide and self-harm in this country.”
Calls for rapid airport testing have been backed by the chair of Dáil Covid Committee.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has asked NPHET whether the Kildare lockdown can be lifted early.
Meat industry representatives appeared before the special Dáil committee on Covid this afternoon.
Former HSE chief Tony O’Brien questioned the length of the sitting.
McNamara has served no time off the road as the case has been under appeal.
He is allowed remain on the road pending his appeal hearing.
Former Labour deputy Michael McNamara disputed garda evidence in court today.
Michael McNamara is contesting all charges.
High-profile casualties of the election have opened up about the pain of not being reelected.
Michael McNamara was suspended from the house just before lunchtime.
Michael McNamara has been critical of the government over the summer but has now rejoined the Labour parliamentary party.
Labour has denied there is any connection between Michael McNamara’s removal from the health committee and his attempt to hold hearings on abortion.
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
Michael McNamara is set to lose the Labour whip after saying he cannot support the proposed sale of Aer Lingus to IAG.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Michael McNamara is said to be undecided on whether he will support the proposed sale of the state’s stake in Aer Lingus.
Michael McNamara won’t lose the party whip.
Every Life Counts wants the term banned, saying it “dehumanises” babies.
Meanwhile, Anne Ferris said she is willing to face the consequences of being expelled from the Labour Party.
Michael McNamara has admitted he refused to vote for the establishment of the controversial new semi-state company.
It’s too early for onion chopping, surely.
This is due to the scale of anti-fraud measures that must be developed.
No? One Labour TD believes that more should be done to commemorate Redmond, an East Clare MP who died in World War I.
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Michael McNamara voted against the government but the party said it was a ‘genuine mistake’.
The Minister for Defence Alan Shatter said that there was nothing in the Garda Code, the Discipline Regulations or the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 which would prevent gardaí from availing of the service.
The MEP’s decision to resign from the parliamentary party was met with disappointment and criticism from her Labour colleagues today.
A suggestion that the Tánaiste has been seeking support for his leadership from the parliamentary party has been denied by Labour and a number of its TDs though many did not return calls today.
James Reilly says it would be too expensive to light his Department’s HQ blue tomorrow to mark Autism Awareness Day.
Labour TD Michael McNamara said that Cardinal Brady misrepresented the legal position within which the Oireachtas is required to legislate.
The Dáil voted down a proposal from Niall Collins to include some border areas of Co Clare under a new Limerick council.
TD for Clare Michael McNamara was speaking about ACTA at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Greek MPs, Irish jobs, German cable ties, and all the other news from the week in handy numerical format…
Business in the Dáil was held up to vote on ordering Michael McNamara to leave – even though he already had.
Demonstrators believe planned staffing cuts will lead to large class size increases – and fear some schools could close down altogether.
Fianna Fáil’s private bill on Political Donations is defeated – as a Labour TD asks where the party has disappeared to…
TDs from both Fianna Fáil and Labour criticise today’s proceedings, with one TD saying MEPs are like “a lighthouse in a bog”.