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Thursday 26 November 2020
Shane and Lucinda, maybe not so much.
So, are any Senators going to join the new alliance or party?
It doesn’t have a name yet but it does have a hashtag.
She will be joined by four other Reform Alliance members.
It’s looking likely that Independents will play a considerable role in the next Government.
That’s according to a poll that the Independent TD commissioned himself.
It’s complicated, but let us explain…
Samantha Long is working as a secretary for the former Fine Gael minister.
And the Dáil has now been suspended until tomorrow morning.
She says not yet. Kind of.
The Dáil grouping now wants more speaking rights and extra committee memberships.
Much confusion as to whether the former Fine Gael TD is now part of the loose alliance of independent deputies.
Terence Flanagan used a case involving one of his own constituents to ask if the Department of Social Protection cuts the dole of anti-government protestors.
The Reform Alliance TD has played down suggestions he is lobbying to be added to the inquiry in the wake of Stephen Donnelly’s departure.
Call them what you like: the Reform Alliance, ‘the Ra’, ‘Lucinda Creighton’s Reform Allilance’. Just don’t call them a party.
Term limits for ministers, performance-related pay, and giving everyone a say on the Budget… The Reform Alliance has a lengthy political wish-list.
There’s talk, and a lot of it, about a new political party being set up in Ireland but the reality is that any such development remains a way off yet.
The former junior minister has confirmed she will not be renewing her membership of the party.
The Reform Alliance reckon it has housing bubbles licked.
It is now unlikely that the Reform Alliance TD will seek election to the European Parliament in May.
The Reform Alliance TD made the comments this evening as her former party’s Ard Fheis got underway.
The independent TD has emailed a small network of supporters and advisors to seek their views on the possibility of establishing a new political movement.
The TD is looking for someone to bring organisation to her days.
The Minister for Health appeared close to tears in the Dáil earlier.
Three independents have been approaching a number of TDs with the aim of forming a group to push common policies.
Denied by Minister Howlin, she said money earmarked for TDs who are no longer Fine Gael or Labour parliamentary members would be used to make the public ‘vote in a particular way’.
Everyone’s been talking about the fire in Clondalkin, the ‘RA’ conference, and Met Éireann’s storm warning…
The turnout was good, the ideas were flowing and the organisers appeared delighted with themselves. But what chance a political party?
The TD said today that she did not make any approach to Tóibín, despite what he is alleged to have said on radio last week.
The conference is hearing from various high-profile commentators on political, health and economic reform.
We asked four people why they’re at the Reform Conference in Dublin today. Here’s what they told us…
Today’s Reform Conference will open discussion on key areas of reform, writes Terence Flanagan.
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.
Lucinda Creighton today took aim at her former cabinet colleagues.
The ‘backwards Fianna Fáil logo’ was how one Cabinet minister described it.
“I am prepared to consider anything,” the Tipperary South TD told TheJournal.ie today.
Ireland needs a “straight-talking team” of 11 MEPs to help negotiate a debt write down, the Independent TD believes, but he has not held talks with any of the parties about joining them or getting their support.
The new political alliance espouses reform; however, there appears to be little real questioning of the nature of that ‘reform’ or who stands to benefit from it, writes Rory Hearne.
Fine Gael dissident Brian Walsh said he has met with Enda Kenny since his expulsion and that he has a good working relationship with the Taoiseach.
“We’re doing what it says on the tin,” Lucinda Creighton has insisted as the 25 January conference fuels talk that a new political party is on the way.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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