# politics - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: The Gathering at the Dáil; Cabinet clones; Alan Shatter knows what you did last summer.
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# politics - Friday 17 May, 2013
Séan Lemass is one of the few Irish leaders whose popularity transcends political parties – but his path wasn’t always an easy one. Modern politicians could learn a lot from his approach to politics, writes David McCann.
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While there are practical arguments for a bill that requires no constitutional change, it limits any reform across the whole legislative body, writes Eoin O’Malley.
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# politics - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
The White House has denied any prior knowledge about Association Press phone records being seized.
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Michael D Higgins won the Irish presidential elections based on his vision of a ‘radically inclusive Republic’. So how could anyone be surprised about him elaborating on that vision, asks Maura Adshead.
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# politics - Monday 13 May, 2013
Various political scandals and our current economic woes have increased levels of mistrust in politicians among young people. This does not mean we are apathetic, we just need to be engaged, writes Órla Ryan.
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# politics - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Name recognition surely benefits politically candidacy both here and abroad, but it shouldn’t just be the Kennys, McEntees or the Clintons that are getting involved in the politics of shaping nations – we all should be, writes Larry Donnelly.
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# politics - Thursday 9 May, 2013
It exists, and it’s a wonder.
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# politics - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
Our political systems have declined to a point where they cannot introduce profound change in the social order – this needs to change in order for society to flourish, writes Niall Crowley.
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“Ultimately the entire population will be covered by free GP services,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil.
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# politics - Monday 6 May, 2013
…not when the party still owe us a tooth and an eye. So why are many people perversely choosing to drift back=?
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Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore will hold talks on efforts to push through the EU’s gigantic budget for the next six years.
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# politics - Friday 3 May, 2013
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, explains the reasoning behind the government’s new plans to regulate lobbying and restore public faith in a vital activity.
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# politics - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Damn you, parents. Damn you.
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# politics - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Proposals approved by ministers will enforce a legal “cooling-off” period for former office holders going into lobbying.
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“Despite the fact that RTE is a minority player in terms of audience they hold a virtual stranglehold on public funding from the licence fee”.
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Kevin Sheahan sparked anger in Limerick’s council chamber when he demanded an ‘Irish first’ housing policy, but Micheál Martin has refused to properly sanction these anti-immigrant statements, writes Dr Matt Cannon.
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# politics - Sunday 28 April, 2013
The party has been told today that its brand is still damaged. What do you reckon?
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# politics - 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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The full text of the Fianna Fáil leader’s speech to his annual party conference – including his support for public sector workers (but without any mention of abortion).
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The Fianna Fáil leader will be delivering his address to his party from 8.30pm. Join us to see what happens.
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Adams rounded on the party for its political opportunism.
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Following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, more than 70 per cent of people turned out to elect the first assembly. Fast forward 15 years and the people seem disenchanted, but why, asks David McCann.
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# politics - Friday 26 April, 2013
Only when a large enough proportion of elected representatives are female will the challenges, interests and life experiences applicable to women properly gain a voice in Ireland, writes Fianna Fail Ard Fheis candidate Laura Reid.
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# politics - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Ireland can no longer afford, financially or morally, to go along with the EU’s current hopeless policy in Bosnia. Now is an opportune time for a fundamental rethink of how the EU should deal with the political situation there, writes Patrick Nulty.
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# politics - Saturday 20 April, 2013
The former Minster for Finance works in the Lillywhites’ backroom.
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# politics - Friday 19 April, 2013
If we want to reclaim the current political landscape we need to re-establish the ground rules for office holders and ensure their words turn into actions, writes Martin Critten.
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# politics - 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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# politics - Monday 15 April, 2013
The mobility grant gave me and my husband the chance to lead independent lives, with dignity, writes Miriam Murphy, who says this government are chipping away at the help for people with disabilities.
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# politics - Sunday 14 April, 2013
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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# politics - Friday 12 April, 2013
The party has released a short video putting a positive spin on events so far this year…
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# politics - Thursday 11 April, 2013
In an interview with a Fermanagh newspaper, Adams also said he forgave the former British Prime Minister.
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# politics - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kim Jong-Un clings on to his place in the Dáil Technical Group, pointing Phil Hogan at North Korea and Ireland nominated by troika for fantasy government awards.
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The EU needs to either get on with integration, proper banking and political union or separate into amicable trading partners and neighbours, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# politics - Friday 5 April, 2013
Eamon Gilmore will have one less Christmas card to write now – but if Labour took its MEPs seriously, this may never have happened, writes Nessa Childers’ former parliamentary assistant Ciara Galvin.
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Nessa Childers and Eamon Gilmore – there’s no hugging it out this time.
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# politics - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Italian was unveiled as Sunderland manager this morning.
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