A little after 7 p.m. on Saturday evening, Catherine Connolly was declared the President-elect by returning officer Barry Ryan with a record-breaking 63% first preference votes after all 43 constituencies had counted their votes. She overtakes Éamon de Valera, who previously held the record with 59% first preferences in 1959. Douglas Hyde and...
On April 12th, it was announced that the green paper was scrapped.
On the 28th May, 2025, after 19 months of evasion and 'legal gymnastics,' the Taoiseach stood in the Dail Chamber and admitted what the world has seen in real time since October 2023: that the Government of Israel, under Benjamin Netanyahu, is committing genocide in Gaza.
We are acting in response to a housing crisis. There are blockages to apartment building in the regulations we have, we can see that in the slowdown in our much-needed pipeline of apartments. We are taking decisive action, without compromising on any essential regulations, to ensure apartments are viable to build.
Since the foundation of the state, Ireland has upheld its constitutionally mandated commitment to peaceful resolution of international disputes, with the adoption of its policy of neutrality. That this policy has kept Ireland out of major military engagements, has made Ireland an outlier among many of its European peers is unquestionable, as it has...
Dublin 7 (or Dublin Central in electoral terms) is not some local Dublin area. It remains one of the key entry points into the city centre, (the N7) the other being the Chapelizod By-pass, and the other being (the Phibsborough road), all funneling traffic into the city centre. The 2018 consultation was essentially a public relations exercise as the...
The Cork Echo has reported numerous allegations of poor treatment of elderly Cork nursing home residents, including allegations of abuse, neglect and poor care as well as fears over staff shortages, these include the past five months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
