# labour - Yesterday’s News
An Ipsos MRBI poll for the Irish Times reveals a 41pc approval rating for Burton, but only 13pc for James Reilly.
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# labour - Friday 14 June, 2013
Shane Ross has tabled an unusual motion – seeking a vote trying to delay Seanad abolition until reform is introduced first.
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# labour - Thursday 13 June, 2013
Support for the coalition has fallen but Fianna Fáil’s support remains steady at 26 per cent, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll.
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The Red C poll for Paddy Power also shows a four-point boost for Fine Gael in the last few weeks.
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# labour - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
Tom Hayes’ statement would appear to place him at odds with the education minister.
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# labour - Friday 31 May, 2013
They will join childcare organisations in speaking about the findings of the RTÉ undercover footage of three creches in Ireland.
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# labour - Wednesday 29 May, 2013
The councillors want to meet the Minister for the Environment to speak to him about their concerns around the proposed turbines.
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# labour - Tuesday 28 May, 2013
Fianna Fáil are opposed to Minister Phil Hogan’s proposals, while Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Labour support them.
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# labour - Sunday 26 May, 2013
The Transport Minister says he’s “fairly sure” there will be fewer than 400,000 people on the live register by Christmas.
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Micheál Martin’s party gained one point, while Enda Kenny’s FG dropped two.
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# labour - Sunday 19 May, 2013
The Sunday Independent/Millward Brown poll shows, however, that the numbers opposing the clause are increasing.
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# labour - Thursday 16 May, 2013
A minimum of 24 hours notice will be given for any industrial action, unions officials have said.
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IBEC wants the government to increase the notice period that needs to be served on companies.
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# labour - Saturday 11 May, 2013
# labour - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
“Ultimately the entire population will be covered by free GP services,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil.
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# labour - Monday 6 May, 2013
Fine Gael’s chairman says backbenchers will have the chance to amend the bill – but only, a Labour TD says, to improve medical practice.
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# labour - Friday 3 May, 2013
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said his eurosceptic party could no longer be dismissed as a protest movement.
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# labour - Thursday 2 May, 2013
A Sunday newspaper published transcripts from taped conversations between Anne Ferris and another Labour TD regarding their views on abortion legislation – but Ferris says the supposed ‘sting’ adds nothing new to her public position on the matter.
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Irish women have been denied their constitutional right to adequate maternal healthcare but the new draft law changes that, argues Labour TD Ciara Conway.
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# labour - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Ministers have dispersed after a lengthy all-morning meeting and will reconvene at 5:30pm to try and hammer out a deal.
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Bus Éireann has said it plans to implement Labour Court recommendations which will mean some workers at the bus company work longer for less pay.
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Coalition partners Fine Gael and Labour are due to set out conditions under which abortions can be legally carried out in Ireland.
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# labour - Saturday 27 April, 2013
A new opinion poll has also found that the majority of respondents want the government to try to renegotiate the Croke Park pay agreement.
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# labour - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Parties are only required to disclose donations worth over €5,078.95 – but only three parties disclosed any donations at all.
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# labour - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Enda Kenny says he would like the laws enacted before the Dáil’s summer break, but he cannot guarantee it.
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A councillor says that she and her colleagues were told yesterday it is costing Dublin City Council between €250 – €300,000 a year to collect the illegally dumped rubbish.
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# labour - Monday 22 April, 2013
One of Ireland’s three perinatal psychiatrists slams reports that a pregnant woman may need to be evaluated by a panel of six people in order for an abortion to be permitted.
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# labour - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Speaking at his party’s 1916 commemoration, the Fianna Fáil leader said that the failure of the Croke Park Agreement was a “crisis of the government’s own making”.
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# labour - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The party’s national executive today met and agreed to hold its conference on the 29 and 30 November despite calls from party chairman Colm Keaveney for an earlier date.
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Goverment TDs should be allowed to vote against their party on certain matters under proposals by backbench TD Eoghan Murphy in an internal document circulated among Fine Gael members this week.
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# labour - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Former Labour minister Peter Mandelson said Thatcher gave him the advice on the day he was appointed Secretary for Northern Ireland.
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# labour - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Robert Dowds made the statement when calling for those who had lost the whip to rejoin the fold.
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The Tánaiste has welcomed the decision on same-sex marriage, saying that Ireland’s laws reflect its past, as opposed to its future.
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The Irish electorate is both a strange beast and an angry and vengeful one at the moment, writes Gary Murphy, who says while the people might be punishing Labour, it will not herald a new political force.
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# labour - Friday 12 April, 2013
In an email to party members this evening the Labour leader insists that his party has helped bring Ireland from “a state of economic chaos to stability.”
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# labour - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
MPs paid tribute to the late Prime Minister in a special Commons and Lords debate today.
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# labour - Monday 8 April, 2013
Opinion polls come and go, but the public are missing the real achievements of the Labour party in government, writes Rory Geraghty.
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An announcement from the Tánaiste that charges will not be implemented next January has drawn criticism from Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.
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# labour - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The party leader has come in for fierce criticism in recent days.
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# labour - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Up to 100 members of the party gathered in Dublin this morning to demand change. They want to see more Labour policies implemented in government.
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