In a country where few TDs would dare miss a funeral, do we really have a closer connection with our representatives… or do we just make them work harder at fooling us?
Is becoming ‘The Best Small Country In The World In Which To Do Business By 2016′ really the best ambition Ireland can have for the centenary year of the Rising?
Excluding those who have resigned their seat to take up another political position or ill-health, there have been just a handful of resignations from parliament over principle or controversy down the years. Who are they? And why have there been so few?
What was the phone tapping scandal? TheJournal.ie takes a step back in time and examines what was arguably the biggest political scandal in Irish history that would have consequences far beyond 1983.
Abbeville, the Georgian mansion belonging to the former Taoiseach, had been on the market for 18 months after the company that owned it went into receivership.
OUR NUMBERS HOSPITALISED with Covid-19 continue to fall and the rate of infection appears to be going in the right direction.
But trying to find a solution to how the virus and its variants enter Ireland from abroad continues to be a real challenge.
It was never going to be easy to set up a legal requirement to get arrivals into the country to pay for a two-week quarantine.
The list of designated countries has continued to grow as the Government revises its understanding of the danger spots.
Now, such is the influx of people that Minister Stephen Donnelly has announced a “pause” on bookings on a precautionary basis, in order to ramp up capacity in the system.
Donnelly confirmed yesterday evening that no bookings in mandatory hotel quarantine will be available until next Monday.
So the question is: Should the government cap incoming arrivals from countries on the mandatory quarantine list?
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