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Saturday 19 September 2020
Stick with us as we bring you the latest updates all evening and into the night.
There is still a long way to go before the end of the election.
How does RTÉ achieve balance with its election coverage? The ‘stopwatch’ approach and listing all its candidates.
Holohan will be a Sinn Féin local election candidate in Tallaght South.
Fine Gael says it’s aiming to take over 60 seats in the next general election.
Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has said he favours a new calculation of the tax.
The polls opened today, exactly a year after Angela Merkel decided to let tens of thousands of migrants into the country.
The former garda welcomed Eamon Gilmore’s resignation as Labour leader, describing him as “arrogant”.
The announcement comes after it emerged today that two motions of no-confidence in his leadership would be tabled in coming weeks.
Fowl play on Bray Harbour.
There were tears, there was laughter and we imagine some weary heads hitting pillows last night.
The Taoiseach said Sinn Féin has emerged from the local and European elections as “a significant political entity”. He made the comments in Castlebar this afternoon, where he narrowly avoided a group of protestors.
Michael Kilcoyne was elected on the first count, almost doubling the quota. A recount has been called and will take place tomorrow afternoon.
Andrews is from a strong Fianna Fáil family but will join Dublin City Council for his new party.
The Arklow tally shows Tom Curran at 6.23 per cent. There are six seats for the taking.
He’s running seventh in the eight seater.
Direct Democracy Ireland’s Jan Van De Ven was told he could only vote in the locals, despite the fact that he voted in the last European election.
The People Before Profit MEP candidate has said she is “as equally in contention” as anyone to take the third seat in Dublin.
Council hopeful Noel Rock has admitted using €60 worth of Oireachtas stationery to distribute leaflets despite his high-profile ‘no expenses’ pledge.
The finance minister said acting this week would be dismissed as a “stunt”.
The campaign trail is proving to be an increasingly odd place to be.
There for you, whatever the feather.
Finger on the pulse.
Grazvydas Vaitekunas, originally from Lithuania, was erecting posters in Monaghan last Thursday, when he was subjected to verbal racial abuse.
The unofficial Fianna Fáil local election candidate and former minister could now be expelled from the party over her decision to defy Micheál Martin.
They want a cut in local Government charges for businesses.
At the end of February Jillian Godsil was declared bankrupt in Ireland.
A new alliance of TDs, calling itself Independents’ Network , gathered in Dublin today to give advice and support to non-party candidates running in the local elections in May.
Maurice Dockrell says that the Taoiseach has a “huge depth of character”.
The Olympic silver medalist will be running as the party’s candidate in the Clondalkin area.
Seán Tyrrell is hoping to be elected as a councillor for Dublin North-West.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Breezy this morning; otherwise, clearing
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