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# french-elections - Monday 19 June, 2017
French elections: 'Macron can't claim a strong popular mandate'
President Emmanuel Macron’s comfortable majority might turn out to be less comfortable than the numbers suggest, writes Dr Míde Ní Shúilleabháin.
# french-elections - Monday 12 June, 2017
'France is back': Macron smiling as rivals face crushing defeat in election
The French press, however, are focusing on the low turnout for yesterday’s election.
# french-elections - Friday 12 May, 2017
Opinion: 'Electing Macron last week could result in Le Pen winning the next election in 2022'
Macron’s approach, is the failed strategy of austerity or neoliberalism, writes Julien Mercille.
# french-elections - Monday 24 April, 2017
Euro surges despite Le Pen making second round of French elections
The French vote was being closely watched as a bellwether for populist sentiment.
# french-elections - Monday 18 June, 2012
French elections: Hollande's Socialists win control of parliament
The victory in parliamentary run-offs means the new President will have an easier time getting new legislation passed.
# french-elections - Monday 11 June, 2012
France's Socialist Party poised to take parliamentary majority
President Francois Hollande’s parliamentary majority will give him the opportunity to push through budget and tax reforms, and to move away from austerity towards growth.
# french-elections - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Ireland's French population voting for their own MP in new parliament
The French parliamentary election includes 11 new expatriate constituencies – with voting beginning this weekend.
# french-elections - Friday 20 April, 2012
French presidential candidates make final push for votes
Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy faces a challenge to hold onto the presidency with polls showing that Socialist Francois Hollande is on course to win the election.
# french-elections - Saturday 26 March, 2011
Local election defeat on the cards for Sarkozy's ruling party
France’s involvement in Libyan coalition campaign hasn’t made much of an impression on voters closer to home.
# french-elections - Monday 7 March, 2011
Le Pen takes surprise lead in French presidential polling
The president of the National Front, and daughter of its divisive founder, is the most popular candidate for president.
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
We want to know: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
Poll Results:
Yes (5438)
No (4686)
I'm not sure (724)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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