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Monday 23 November 2020
Coveney said the by-election campaign was ‘personally stressful’ on Murphy.
Murphy has been removed from the Fine Gael general election ticket, the party said yesterday.
Fine Gael suffered a blow after failing to win any seats in four contests.
Forty-three candidates are on the ballot papers across the four constituencies.
The incident happened in Balbriggan earlier this week.
He denied that vulnerable people in the centre were exploited for the sake of a political apology.
Those who’ve signed up include Fianna Fáil’s Lorraine Clifford-Lee, who’s recently been embroiled in controversy over old tweets.
The Fine Gael Wexford candidate previously made comments linking migrants in Ireland to terror group ISIS.
Party members have condemned her comments but say it is too late in the game to remove party support.
Murphy has made a number of controversial comments about refugees in the past number of days.
It follows an apology this morning for comments she made on RTÉ yesterday.
Murphy is a candidate in the upcoming Wexford by-election.
The upcoming by-election is to replace MEP Clare Daly.
The constituencies will going to the polls at the end of the month.
By-elections are notoriously difficult for government parties but Fine Gael has been preparing.
A previously safe seat, the Conservatives lost out to the Liberal Democrats in Brecon and Radnorshire.
Prime Minister Theresa May is stepping down as Conservative party leader today.
Begley took the seat with an almost 8,000 vote majority.
A by-election win for Democrat Jon Ossoff in Atlanta, Georgia, would be a major blow for Trump.
For the first time since 1982, the UK government gained a by-election seat from the opposition.
The result caps a miserable year for Zac Goldsmith after losing the London mayoral election and quitting the Conservative party.
The abuse victim has won a seat on the Seanad’s Industrial and Commercial Panel.
The Labour Seanad candidate is coming under pressure over her refusal to debate.
The email was sent to every TD and Senator overnight by the independent Seanad by-election candidate Jerry Beades.
The party is considering its options.
Cahill said she spent a lot of time considering how she would manage the nomination if successful.
The Belfast woman has been nominated for the position by Joan Burton and Alan Kelly.
SIPO has released details of expenditure in the Carlow-Kilkenny by-election.
The party’s ethics officer Karl Deeter said he is trying to find out what happened.
The campaign claimed to be “non-party”, but was run by Renua activists and endorsed Renua candidate Patrick McKee.
Bobby Aylward was elected early this morning.
The nation holds its breath.
Big Phil is gone to Europe, so who’s in the running for his old Dáil seat in Friday’s by-election?
Bobby Aylward was among over a hundred politicians who received letters about over-claiming expenses six years ago.
13 chairs were hauled into the TV3 studios for last night’s Carlow-Kilkenny debate. They were lucky candidates didn’t start hitting each other with them.
He was later released without charge.
By-election candidate Adrienne Wallace says there would be outrage if ‘women or black people had to accept a lower rate’.
The Tánaiste is on the by-election campaign trail in Carlow-Kilkenny.
Patrick McKee is set to be announced as the new party’s candidate in Carlow-Kilkenny tomorrow.
Smartvote to the rescue.
IRELAND’S LEVEL 5 restrictions are set to come to an end on Tuesday next week, 1 December, and the government is set to decide later this week what will be implemented to replace them.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Irish Examiner this morning that the country will move back to Level Three restrictions from 1 December, allowing non-essential retail to reopen in time for the Christmas trade.
While retail stores look set to reopen, allowing people to get their Christmas shopping done in person, many people are still opting to do a lot of their festive shopping online their year.
So, today we want to know… Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping in person?
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