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# seanad - Friday 27 May, 2016
Here's who the Taoiseach has chosen to fill the remaining Seanad seats
The Taoiseach picked some Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats in February’s general election.
Poll: Should the Seanad have been scrapped?
The Taoiseach’s nominees to the upper house will be announced today.
# seanad - Friday 20 May, 2016
"The Taoiseach is moving far too slowly" - Labour senator hits out at Enda for delay in Seanad nominations
Kevin Humphreys said that the Seanad appointments and ministerial appointments would amount to “jobs for the boys”.
# seanad - Monday 9 May, 2016
Fianna Fáil senator says he filed expense claims "as honestly as he could"
Brian Ó Domhnaill claimed expenses for attending events in different locations on the same days.
# seanad - Sunday 1 May, 2016
What does it mean to be a republican in 2016? We asked this Sinn Féin senator
Fintan Warfield thinks ‘you don’t have to be a Shinner to be a republican’.
# seanad - Friday 29 April, 2016
Lynn Ruane: 'I never had a desire to move into politics'
Ruane says she hopes to champion the causes that are close to her heart.
# seanad - Thursday 28 April, 2016
'Young trans people don't turn trans when they're 18, they deserve so much better'
Newly-elected Sinn Féin senator Fintan Warfield thinks a lot still needs to be done to help young trans people living in Ireland.
# seanad - Wednesday 27 April, 2016
Averil Power loses out to Lynn Ruane in battle for Seanad seat
There’ll be plenty of familiar faces in the upper house.
# seanad - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
Is today's Seanad election a pointless exercise in futility?
If we don’t get a government deal, then yes, probably.
# seanad - Monday 25 April, 2016
This musician and LGBT activist is the first senator elected to the new Seanad
Sinn Féin’s Warfield became the mayor of South Dublin after being elected to the council in 2014.
# seanad - Thursday 21 April, 2016
Seanad Debate FactCheck: Did David Norris really once get 1,000,000 retweets?
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck was paying close attention to TV3′s Seanad debate last night. Here’s who told the truth, and who lied.
# seanad - Monday 28 March, 2016
Everything you need to know about one of the most exclusive elections in Ireland
The Seanad election is underway. But how does it all work and how many people actually get a vote?
# seanad - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
'I’m not going to lie to people, I’d much rather be in the Dáil'
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.
# seanad - Friday 18 March, 2016
Three Labour ministers who lost their Dáil seats are going for the Seanad
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Kevin Humphreys and Ged Nash are all seeking a Leinster House comeback.
# seanad - Friday 11 March, 2016
Senator arrested after walking into Temple Bar crime scene
James Heffernan was released an hour and a half later.
# seanad - Thursday 3 March, 2016
Here's who's running for the Seanad's university panels
The postal ballot will begin from 21 March.
# seanad - Wednesday 2 March, 2016
Dragon's Den star Peter Casey wants to give rural Ireland a boost if he gets into the Seanad
He announced today that he will run in the elections for the upper house of the Oireachtas.
# seanad - Thursday 11 February, 2016
'Home to what?': Emigrants want a say in who runs the show while they're living abroad
Barry Johnston says emigrants are exercised about having no say in the kind of country they would one day like to return to.
# seanad - Thursday 21 January, 2016
Joan Burton survives motion of no confidence as TDs attack Labour in heated debate
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 20 January, 2016
Enda Kenny will be hanging out with a lot of billionaires today
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 19 January, 2016
Joan Burton is facing a motion of no confidence over 'blatant cronyism'
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Thursday 14 January, 2016
Labour TD criticises Burton for giving David Begg state board role without public process
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 13 January, 2016
TDs are back from their Christmas break - and they've got one thing on their minds
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 12 January, 2016
An election is around the corner, but will Enda be Taoiseach again?
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Thursday 17 December, 2015
An 1871 law catering for 'lunatics' was FINALLY repealed today
A new law will repeal the Lunacy Regulations Act, which has been on Ireland’s statute books for 144 years.
# seanad - Monday 14 December, 2015
January surprise? Joan is on high alert for an early election
Could Enda go to the country before the end of next month?
# seanad - Thursday 10 December, 2015
'The abortion holocaust': Senator condemned for 'horrific' language
Jim Walsh has drawn condemnation for remarks made in the Seanad earlier.
Senator Jim Walsh tells Senator Ivana Bacik to "get treatment for haemorrhoids"
Really, he actually said that.
# seanad - Thursday 3 December, 2015
'Clearly there is a heightened risk of something going wrong'
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
Senator regrets if people were offended by controversial abortion comments
The Renua senator was responding to criticism of his remarks in the Seanad yesterday.
# seanad - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
Paul Bradford: "There are no such babies as babies with fatal foetal abnormalities"
The Senator said that there are babies with “life-limiting conditions”.
# seanad - Friday 13 November, 2015
Joan Burton lashes 'online warriors' as Mairia Cahill becomes a Labour senator
The abuse victim has won a seat on the Seanad’s Industrial and Commercial Panel.
# seanad - Thursday 12 November, 2015
Mairia Cahill 'deeply regrets and is deeply sorry' for dissident involvement
The Labour Seanad candidate has broken her silence.
Security at Leinster House to be beefed up after increased risk to TDs
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 11 November, 2015
Former minister reportedly investigated over child sex abuse claims
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
Mairia Cahill is refusing to talk about her past dissident links
The Labour Seanad candidate is coming under pressure over her refusal to debate.
# seanad - Wednesday 4 November, 2015
Labour is taking legal advice over an email about Mairia Cahill
The email was sent to every TD and Senator overnight by the independent Seanad by-election candidate Jerry Beades.
# seanad - Thursday 22 October, 2015
Watch the historic moment same-sex marriage moved a step closer
Applause broke out in the Seanad as the Marriage Bill passed all stages today
David Norris: I am not in favour of incest, I never have been
The independent senator has sought to clarify remarks he made in the Seanad on Tuesday.
# seanad - Tuesday 20 October, 2015
David Norris says that gay cousins should be allowed to marry each other
“It wouldn’t take a feather out of me if two cousin married each other. What’s the problem with that. Really?”
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
We want to know: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
Poll Results:
Yes (3773)
No (3166)
I'm not sure (508)
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Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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