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# Matt Carthy

This year
2023
# Nuremore Hotel
Monaghan TD calls for 'robust' government response to ongoing wage issues of local hotel
The Nuremore Hotel closed in January for renovation works, but a local TD said no works have taken place.
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Feb 11th 2023, 8:00 AM
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# Nuremore Hotel
Staff at Co Monaghan hotel stage sit-in protest in dispute over wages
The hotel was acquired by an investment fund in 2020.
The hotel's staff are worried heading into Christmas about their futures.
The director of the hotel's parent company has seen the wrong side of WRC rulings with another firm he runs.
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Dec 7th 2022, 12:05 AM
All time
# community testing
HSE says testing at meat plants suspended until next week to help meet 'significant rise in demand' for community tests
Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy described the decision as “reckless” and “inexplicable”.
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Sep 9th 2020, 9:37 PM
# back to brexit
Brexit divorce deal was 'the easy part'; and more 'last-minute turmoil' on the way, Irish MEPs say
Irish MEPs regret that Brexit has become an inevitability, with one saying that “as an Irish person, I can’t feel any happiness” towards the certainty it created.
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Jan 11th 2020, 12:05 AM
# Border poll
Sinn Féin accuses Fianna Fáil of trying to 'shut down legitimate conversation' on a United Ireland
MEP Matt Carthy responded today to comments made by Micheál Martin about a United Ireland border poll.
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Dec 23rd 2019, 1:57 PM
# Lakeland Dairies
'A huge blow': Concern as 68 workers face redundancy at Monaghan dairy site
The redundancies at Lakeland Dairies were announced today.
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Aug 30th 2019, 9:36 PM
# linn féin
A Kildare branch of Sinn Féin wants Matt Carthy to be its presidential candidate
It had been suggested that Matt Carthy’s colleague Liadh Ní Riada would be Sinn Féin’s presidential candidate.
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Aug 30th 2018, 4:41 PM
# Criticism
'This company has simply treated passengers abysmally': Ryanair criticised in EU Parliament
The airline was criticised it on numerous fronts for its treatment of its workers and passengers.
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Oct 4th 2017, 9:32 AM
# Security
Fine Gael MEP says Ireland needs to re-examine its neutrality ahead of Brexit
Jean-Claude Juncker has called for the EU to implement plans for a common defence strategy
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Sep 13th 2017, 5:52 PM
Voices
Unionists have nothing to fear from a united Ireland
British identity can and must be accommodated in an agreed, united Ireland, writes Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy.
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Jun 30th 2017, 8:30 PM
Voices
'Ceta has a corporate driven agenda': What Ireland could learn from the tiny region of Wallonia
“The Irish government is the chief cheerleader for this trade agenda,” writes Matt Carthy, who firmly believes it is doing Irish people a disservice.
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Oct 29th 2016, 6:00 PM
# bite of the apple
MEPs laugh at Jean-Claude Juncker when he says Europe is fighting tax evasion
Earlier, Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes said: “Changing the rules, however appalling [they are], is not smart.”
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Sep 14th 2016, 10:08 AM
# factcheck
FactCheck: Is Luke 'Ming' Flanagan right about other Irish MEPs' poor record of attendance?
The Independent MEP says he’s the only Irish member who regularly shows up for the Agriculture Committee. FactCheck puts that claim to the test.
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Jul 18th 2016, 6:15 AM
Voices
The Debate Room: Should we be afraid of the trade deal the EU and US are cooking up?
What is the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and what does it mean to you? We asked two experts with different viewpoints what is at play here.
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May 17th 2016, 8:00 AM
# Your Say
Would you vote if there was another election?
Sinn Féin has said that they “aren’t afraid” should another election be called.
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Apr 17th 2016, 9:32 AM
# Peace Process
Sinn Féin welcomes involvement of former IRA prisoners in election campaign
Gerry Adams and director of elections Matt Carthy have faced questions about the involvement of former political prisoners in the election campaign.
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Jan 8th 2016, 1:27 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Would you like to see a united Ireland?
Sinn Fein’s MEP Matt Carthy says Ireland would be better off with a single economy.
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Jul 30th 2015, 8:35 AM
# stars and gripes
Left-wing campaigners are derailing a US free-trade deal for 'political reasons': Hayes
Debate on the so-called TTIP was suspended this morning amid angry scenes.
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Jun 10th 2015, 2:47 PM
# sarcasm alert
Mary Lou says Alan Kelly has her 'quaking in her stilettos'
Meanwhile, a Syrizan minister got TWO standing ovations at Sinn Féin’s Ard Fheis.
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Mar 7th 2015, 1:08 PM
# Let's talk
How Jean-Claude Trichet WILL speak to the banking inquiry (sort of)
The former ECB president may take questions when he visits Dublin next month – but not in Leinster House.
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Mar 5th 2015, 6:19 PM
# off script
Watch this Sinn Féin MEP's somewhat surprising answer to the Gerry Adams/IRA question
Does Matt Carthy believe Adams when he says he was never a member of the IRA?
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Mar 4th 2015, 8:00 AM
# Big Philly Style
'A kick in the backside': Sinn Féin MEP on THAT smackdown from Phil Hogan
Matt Carthy was on the receiving end of a political smackdown from Ireland’s European Commissioner last year.
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Mar 2nd 2015, 5:53 PM
# State of the Nation
ECB head: Ireland could have burned bondholders
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
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Feb 19th 2015, 11:55 AM
# slow down
Speeding tourists won't be able to escape penalties under new law
The European Parliament has passed legislation to allow police forces in different Member States to share data.
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Feb 12th 2015, 6:05 PM
# gone
Shock in Monaghan as Bose closure sees 140 jobs axed
The company had been manufacturing audio systems in Monaghan since 1978, but will wind down and cease operations in April.
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Jan 22nd 2015, 6:25 PM
# No Show
Sorry Ireland, Draghi says the ECB won't be fronting the banking inquiry
The central bank has been accused of treating Ireland with disdain.
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Nov 18th 2014, 10:57 AM
# house of cards
"I hope you won’t get into trouble...": Here are the winners and losers from the political week
The McNulty omnishambles just wouldn’t go away, Big Phil’s Big Grilling failed to materialise, and a Tory minister landed himself in hot water – over a poem.
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Oct 4th 2014, 6:30 PM
# good hearing
Laughter and applause for Phil Hogan, as Sinn Féin challenge falls flat
Big Phil’s anticipated ‘Big Grilling’ failed to materialise at the EU Parliament this morning, and the agriculture committee has now voted to back him as commissioner.
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Oct 2nd 2014, 9:30 PM
# Election 2014
Dogfights, protests and predictions of a recount: Everything happening in Midlands North West
The first count in the constituency is due this afternoon.
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May 26th 2014, 6:00 AM
# TBT
Throwback Thursday: Politics edition
From befriending Tom Cruise to stealing each other’s outfits, our politicians have done it all.
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May 22nd 2014, 1:05 PM
# Election 2014
7 things we learned from last night's Midlands North-West Prime Time debate
They came, they shouted, they argued and then they all went home.
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May 19th 2014, 8:06 AM
# Analysis
The first opinion poll of the European elections has focused minds... and sharpened knives
There’s plenty for the political parties and the independents to think about after the first European election poll at the weekend.
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Apr 28th 2014, 11:33 AM
# Investment
Fine Gael and Labour are 'austerity junkies' failing to attract investment - Pearse Doherty
Sinn Féín has called on the government to access more funding from the European Investment Bank to stimulate job creation.
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Apr 17th 2014, 12:41 PM
# Election 2014
'Current MEPs? Hardworking, but failures' - Matt Carthy runs for Europe
The 36-year-old Sinn Féin candidate has been in politics since 1999.
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Apr 6th 2014, 10:30 AM
# error
'Ludicrous': Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher dismisses Sinn Féin attack over Trichet letter vote
Sinn Féin MEP candidate Matt Carthy said that the odds of three votes being incorrect due to a technical fault were ‘astronomical’.
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Mar 22nd 2014, 8:10 AM
# Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
9 things we've learned from the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
Hundreds of Sinn Féin delegates gathered at the Wexford Opera House this weekend, but what did we learn? Here’s what TheJournal.ie found out…
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Feb 8th 2014, 9:00 PM
# Wake Up lil SUSI
Student denied a grant by SUSI, despite being €7,600 below income threshold
A Sinn Féin councillor says that he had to write to SUSI to explain that €46,661 is less than €54,240.
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Nov 21st 2013, 11:34 AM
# Election 2014
Hayes says 'wait and see' on Euro election run but Norah Casey insists: 'I'm out'
With the new constituencies decided political parties will soon be picking who they want to represent them in next year’s European Parliament election.
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Sep 26th 2013, 7:30 AM