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'Farce': Fine Gael begins adding women
Fine Gael is short on women candidates ahead of the general election.
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Fine Gael is short on women candidates ahead of the general election.
The Irish teenager has been held in a Cairo prison for over 600 days without trial.
New pubs network will see nearly 7,000 establishments worldwide working together.
One of the city’s youngest GAA organisations wants to develop its current home in Queens.
Communities in Sydney and Melbourne will benefit most.
Support for emigrants and the diaspora has increased to €12.595 million.
The conference on return migration was organised by the National Youth Council of Ireland.
It was stated at a conference on return migration this morning that 33,500 young people aged 15-24 have emigrated in the year to April 2014.
What once an aspirational concept is now a very real reality for many Irish families.
Deenihan is now the Minister of State for the Diaspora.
The Taoiseach identified a particular difficulty in demoting Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan yesterday.
Analysis: The Cabinet’s female membership is doubled but will Labour rue taking on Environment?
Some relatives have raised concerns in recent months they could effectively be frozen out of the centenary celebrations.
The Minister for Heritage has asked relatives who are interested to contact his Department.
The criminal damage has been widely condemned today.
Students in all primary and secondary schools have been asked to pause for sixty seconds at noon today.
Minister Jimmy Deenihan has noted there is a need for practical advice and guidelines for residents with pine marten problems.
The Oireachtas group on Moore Street say it would be a ‘destruction of a vital part of our national heritage’.
Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan said it is important that the Irish don’t forget “the experiences that have shaped us as a people”.
The site where the 1916 Rising leaders surrendered on Moore Street is to become a commemorative centre.
A post-mortem carried out on the male eagle confirmed it had been hit with around 50 shotgun pellets.
Jimmy Deenihan’s statement follows a report this morning that suggested jobs could be lost, following a review of visitor services at the six parks.
The collection includes unpublished works and letters from his lover Beth Moore.
The board have not met since June 2008 and its future is being considered by the Government.
Everything happening in Leinster House today.
A post-mortem confirmed that the bird had dozens of shotgun pellets lodged in its body, but appears to have starved to death.
With Kenneth Egan set to face the electorate, we look at some former sportspeople who turned to politics.
“They said they’d call a meeting of the interested parties, but then only invited people who were interested in chopping it up.”
And everyone struggled to keep a straight face in the Dáil this morning…
Our Arts minister is unable to represent his department with any real knowledge, and is therefore failing to exploit what could be a multi-billion euro industry, writes Eoin Lynch.
An Taisce has accused the government of “putting electoral considerations ahead of the needs of Ireland’s young generations”.
A German-born professional photographer captured Limerick from 1910 until the 60s and his work is going on display.
He said he did not ask anyone to resign from their positions either.
The Arts Minister says he won’t be seeking changes to the board, other than including the ‘Limerick arts community’.
The theatre closed in 2007 for renovation after a fire caused extensive smoke damage.
Yesterday, Minister Jimmy Deenihan said that turf cutting declined by 45 per cent this year – but turf cutters dispute this.
Almost 3,800 compensation payments have also been made to turf cutters.
It was Arthur’s Day again in a Kildare village today.
TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan suggested that if planes are going to be flying over the bogs so frequently, “maybe they could bring our turf home for us”.
The sparrowhawk, which is protected under the Wildlife Act, generally hunts for smaller birds along hedgerows and in woodland.