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Friday 27 November 2020
Fidelma Healy-Eames will not contest the forthcoming Seanad election.
Really, he actually said that.
Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been banging the funding drum this morning.
Without the freedom to offend, freedom of expression does not exist.
The senator said the ‘mispronunciation’ incident has kickstarted her General Election campaign.
#pcgonemad #sexualorientation
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
“Do you have the wiffy code?”
The No side has dismissed claims they’re using “dirty tactics”.
The independent senator came on the plinth to dismiss No side claims about funding to groups campaigning for a Yes vote.
Martin Shanahan’s call for a Yes vote in the same-sex marriage referendum has not gone down well with the No side.
He didn’t hold back, anyway.
Former Fine Gael senator was trending on Twitter yesterday.
Claims against Sinn Féin, Ireland out of Cricket World Cup and #pcgonemad.
She thinks that ‘political correctness has gone mad’.
Dara Murphy denied the cameras are strategically located in areas where speed limits increase.
So, are any Senators going to join the new alliance or party?
‘Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and #sexualorientation’.
She will be joined by four other Reform Alliance members.
Seán Barrett’s had a long day.
“If the Seanad wants to be taken seriously it must do the right thing and not be merely a rubber stamp for the Government’s brutal austerity policies.”
James Reilly has said that the Adoption Bill will benefit from further consultation.
The Seanad is set to debate a Bill on the rights of adopted people this week.
The newspaper published two stories in 2012 about volunteer work the Senator had done.
One year on, TDs and Senators reflect on what it was like to be part of one of the most contentious political debates in decades.
Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames has proposed legislation that she says would put an end to the usual pre-budget speculation and leaks.
Call them what you like: the Reform Alliance, ‘the Ra’, ‘Lucinda Creighton’s Reform Allilance’. Just don’t call them a party.
The former junior minister has confirmed she will not be renewing her membership of the party.
A wafer-thin majority and ‘the three amigos’ could all spell trouble for the coalition…
The alliance exists because its members voted against the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, but can it gain wider appeal? Today’s conference at the RDS will be a key indicator.
The alliance consists of five Fine Gael TDs and two senators, most of whom lost the party whip over their vote against abortion legislation last July.
Everything from Miley Cyrus to Downton Abbey has been raised in the Dáil and Seanad chambers down the years…
Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames has said that local authorities have spent millions on disposing unwanted horses.
Direct election of the Ceann Comhairle, automatic addition to the electoral register and Attorney General certification for guillotined bills top the agenda for the Fine Gael rebels.
Peter Mathews and Fidelma Healy-Eames are two of the members in the new Reform Alliance group which is meeting today to discuss strategy and policies for the future.
Fine Gael TDs expelled from the parliamentary party are forming an alliance ahead of the new Dáil term.
Paul Kehoe has said it’s not nice to have to expel the five TDs and two Senators over the abortion vote but insisted that “politics is no kind of Cinderella game”.
The government chief whip has told TheJournal.ie that the coalition has no plans to amend Dáil standing orders as some Fine Gael TDs and senators outside of the Fine Gael parliamentary party are seeking to do.
More uproar in the Seanad today…
ONE OF THE most eagerly anticipated nights of the Irish TV year is finally here, with not even 2020 being able to stop the broadcast of the Late Late Toy Show.
Covid-19 restrictions mean it will be a different kind of show this year, but it still promises to be a special night – perhaps more so than usual given the year we’ve had.
For the day that’s in it, we’re asking: Will you watch the Late Late Toy Show?
Poll Results:
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