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# seanad - Monday 25 May, 2015
Averil Power launches scathing attack on Fianna Fáil as she quits party
The Senator described Micheál Martin as “a leader without any followers” and said the party is “simply not fit for government”.
# seanad - Wednesday 20 May, 2015
Bertie and Enda to be quizzed about banking collapse
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Thursday 14 May, 2015
Why are Dáil suspensions happening so often?
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 13 May, 2015
In mortgage arrears? Here's how the government plans to help
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 12 May, 2015
Same-sex marriage debate heats up amid growing fears of No vote
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Thursday 7 May, 2015
Public servants could be in for €800 windfall
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 6 May, 2015
Water charges will be taken from people's wages or dole
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Thursday 30 April, 2015
Will this man tell us why taxpayers had to repay bondholders?
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 29 April, 2015
Howlin: I'm amazed people criticised the spring statement, it's full of 'real meat'
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 28 April, 2015
Tax cuts and spending hikes: Are we back to the good times?
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Monday 20 April, 2015
Look at how incredibly complicated it is to elect Senators...
Our minds are blown. Our heads hurt.
# seanad - Monday 13 April, 2015
Check out these VERY radical proposals to reform the Seanad
The Seanad Working Group on Reform has published a report calling for overhaul of the upper house.
# seanad - Tuesday 31 March, 2015
Senator suggests marriage referendum money better spent testing gay people for HIV
Senator Jim Walsh told the Seanad the idea was put to him by a gay man he met last weekend.
# seanad - Thursday 26 March, 2015
Conservative senator Jim Walsh resigns from Fianna Fáil parliamentary party
He does not agree with certain aspects of new family law.
7 things we learned from our VERY revealing interview with Ronan Mullen
The independent senator talked same-sex marriage, adoption and being approached by Fine Gael in an interview with TheJournal.ie.
There was another entertaining episode of Joan v Mary Lou in the Dáil today
The Sopranos featured twice at Leaders’ Questions today.
# seanad - Thursday 12 March, 2015
Enda will be the 'most popular man in the world' next week
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 4 March, 2015
Senator: I was called a Nazi and threatened with rape for supporting Palestine
Fianna Fáil’s Averil Power also spoke to TheJournal.ie about Micheál Martin’s leadership.
# seanad - Tuesday 3 March, 2015
'If my daughter was raped I'd never force her to carry a child'
“I’m very conscious that I was an unwanted pregnancy.”
# seanad - Sunday 1 March, 2015
Where have you seen these political faces before?
They all have one place in common besides the Dáil.
# seanad - Sunday 22 February, 2015
Out of the frying pan: Which Senators want to become TDs?
‘People criticise using the Seanad as a platform to the Dáil … but it makes sense.’
# seanad - Monday 16 February, 2015
Lisbon Treaty vote (the 1st one) the most expensive referendum of past 15 years
They told us we’d save €20 million by scrapping the Seanad — but it cost us a fair chunk of change to hold the vote.
# seanad - Friday 13 February, 2015
Calls for Portlaoise Courthouse to be moved after 'mass gurrier brawl'
“Up to 60 people were involved in a wholesale chaotic brawl, fisticuffs and dangerous scenes of violence.”
# seanad - Wednesday 11 February, 2015
No cigarette-style warnings on betting slips ... for now
Do you think they’re a good idea?
# seanad - Sunday 8 February, 2015
Is it true that Fianna Fáil has no policies? Well, not really...
It’s a constant claim thrown at the party, but it turns out it has more than a few ideas.
# seanad - Sunday 1 February, 2015
9 times when Irish politics has been really sexist
The debate about sexism in Irish politics has been reignited by Michael Lowry and his controversial note this week.
# seanad - Thursday 22 January, 2015
Here's what Enda will be getting up to in Davos today
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
'Lucinda or Shane never knocked at my door ... they probably knew better'
So, are any Senators going to join the new alliance or party?
# seanad - Thursday 15 January, 2015
Opinion: Government is making a mockery of democratic reform – so we're taking matters into our own hands
It’s shameful to think that a raggle-taggle group like ours, with day jobs and no money, are making a better go of inviting public opinion than the Government itself.
# seanad - Tuesday 13 January, 2015
Fine Gael could have another Seanad headache on its hands
With independent senator Jillian van Turnhout in the running for Children’s Ombudsman there could be another vacancy in the upper house.
# seanad - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
Enda Kenny might appoint a senator to the Cabinet*
*If he’s re-elected.
# seanad - Tuesday 23 December, 2014
QUIZ: How well do you really know these TDs and Senators?
Test your knowledge here.
# seanad - Monday 22 December, 2014
That's all folks: Applause from senators as 4 week Christmas break announced
Over in the Dáil, it’s a markedly shorter break. TDs will be back on 14 January.
The 5 at 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Senator says no one in Fianna Fáil told him he was expelled
Mark Daly claimed he hadn’t heard from anyone in the party after he defied the whip early on Saturday morning.
# seanad - Saturday 20 December, 2014
The Seanad debated the Water Services Bill well into the wee hours
Senators are now expected to return on Monday to continue the debate.
# seanad - Thursday 18 December, 2014
Will the Seanad reject water charges?
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# seanad - Tuesday 16 December, 2014
'Sickened by the threats': Will Senators reject water charges?
“If the Seanad wants to be taken seriously it must do the right thing and not be merely a rubber stamp for the Government’s brutal austerity policies.”
# seanad - Sunday 7 December, 2014
6 of the dirtiest insults thrown across the floors of the Dáil and Seanad
Featuring: Scumbags, fannies, turnips and a certain future Taoiseach.
Over a year after the Seanad referendum, there will be reforms
A working group will report back to the government by March.
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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 (3784)
No (3184)
I'm not sure (512)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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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