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Sunday 25 October 2020
Joan Freeman was named as one of the Taoiseach’s nominees to the Seanad last week.
Leinster House is to undergo its most significant restoration work to date.
In a 2013 statement calling for the Seanad to be abolished, Reilly labelled it “very undemocratic” and said it had “no power.”
The Taoiseach picked some Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats in February’s general election.
The Taoiseach’s nominees to the upper house will be announced today.
Kevin Humphreys said that the Seanad appointments and ministerial appointments would amount to “jobs for the boys”.
Brian Ó Domhnaill claimed expenses for attending events in different locations on the same days.
Fintan Warfield thinks ‘you don’t have to be a Shinner to be a republican’.
Ruane says she hopes to champion the causes that are close to her heart.
Newly-elected Sinn Féin senator Fintan Warfield thinks a lot still needs to be done to help young trans people living in Ireland.
There’ll be plenty of familiar faces in the upper house.
If we don’t get a government deal, then yes, probably.
Sinn Féin’s Warfield became the mayor of South Dublin after being elected to the council in 2014.
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck was paying close attention to TV3′s Seanad debate last night. Here’s who told the truth, and who lied.
The Seanad election is underway. But how does it all work and how many people actually get a vote?
Last month Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said he wasn’t going to “kick around the Seanad’ if he lost his Dáil seat. Now he’s changed his mind.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Kevin Humphreys and Ged Nash are all seeking a Leinster House comeback.
James Heffernan was released an hour and a half later.
The postal ballot will begin from 21 March.
He announced today that he will run in the elections for the upper house of the Oireachtas.
Barry Johnston says emigrants are exercised about having no say in the kind of country they would one day like to return to.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
A new law will repeal the Lunacy Regulations Act, which has been on Ireland’s statute books for 144 years.
Could Enda go to the country before the end of next month?
Jim Walsh has drawn condemnation for remarks made in the Seanad earlier.
Really, he actually said that.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
The Renua senator was responding to criticism of his remarks in the Seanad yesterday.
The Senator said that there are babies with “life-limiting conditions”.
The abuse victim has won a seat on the Seanad’s Industrial and Commercial Panel.
The Labour Seanad candidate has broken her silence.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
The Labour Seanad candidate is coming under pressure over her refusal to debate.
The email was sent to every TD and Senator overnight by the independent Seanad by-election candidate Jerry Beades.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
Some sun, a shower in spots in the p.m.
Max: 11 °C
Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
