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# reform-alliance - Saturday 24 January, 2015
There's MORE good news for Enda and Joan in the latest opinion poll
Shane and Lucinda, maybe not so much.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
'Lucinda or Shane never knocked at my door ... they probably knew better'
So, are any Senators going to join the new alliance or party?
# reform-alliance - Friday 2 January, 2015
Confirmed: Here's everything we know about Lucinda Creighton's new political party
It doesn’t have a name yet but it does have a hashtag.
Lucinda Creighton is set to announce a new political party today
She will be joined by four other Reform Alliance members.
# reform-alliance - Thursday 4 December, 2014
Poll: Will you vote for a party or Independent candidate in the next general election?
It’s looking likely that Independents will play a considerable role in the next Government.
# reform-alliance - Sunday 23 November, 2014
Shane Ross is the current favourite to lead a new political party
That’s according to a poll that the Independent TD commissioned himself.
# reform-alliance - Friday 24 October, 2014
The massive row that shut down the Dáil on Wednesday is only getting worse
It’s complicated, but let us explain…
# reform-alliance - Thursday 23 October, 2014
Overlooked Seanad hopeful who quit Fine Gael is now working for Lucinda Creighton
Samantha Long is working as a secretary for the former Fine Gael minister.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
Three TDs have been suspended from the Dáil after a massive row
And the Dáil has now been suspended until tomorrow morning.
# reform-alliance - Sunday 19 October, 2014
Is Lucinda Creighton recruiting for a new party?
She says not yet. Kind of.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
They didn't want her, but the Technical Group had an 'amicable' meeting with Lucinda Creighton today
The Dáil grouping now wants more speaking rights and extra committee memberships.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 17 September, 2014
Lucinda Creighton says she's joined the Dáil Technical Group - but they don't want her
Much confusion as to whether the former Fine Gael TD is now part of the loose alliance of independent deputies.
# reform-alliance - Saturday 28 June, 2014
A TD used a Dáil question to ask if a water meter protester would have their dole cut
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.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
Peter Mathews: We should hire the national basketball arena for the banking inquiry
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.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 11 June, 2014
Do the RA want back in Fine Gael?: 'No' ... 'I don't know' ... 'Google it'
Call them what you like: the Reform Alliance, ‘the Ra’, ‘Lucinda Creighton’s Reform Allilance’. Just don’t call them a party.
The RA thinks Irish Cabinets are like the Leitrim football team, and it wants changes
Term limits for ministers, performance-related pay, and giving everyone a say on the Budget… The Reform Alliance has a lengthy political wish-list.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 3 June, 2014
There's a lot of talk, but a new political party is not imminent. Here's why...
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.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
'We wish her well': Fine Gael has no hard feelings over Creighton's decision to quit the party
The former junior minister has confirmed she will not be renewing her membership of the party.
# reform-alliance - Friday 25 April, 2014
Is this the solution to property bubbles?
The Reform Alliance reckon it has housing bubbles licked.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
'Extremely unlikely': Peter Mathews says he'd need to win the lotto to run for Europe
It is now unlikely that the Reform Alliance TD will seek election to the European Parliament in May.
# reform-alliance - Friday 28 February, 2014
Creighton: 'Inconvenient truths, independent thought' not welcome in government
The Reform Alliance TD made the comments this evening as her former party’s Ard Fheis got underway.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 18 February, 2014
Shane Ross asks supporters: Is the time right for a new political movement?
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.
# reform-alliance - Thursday 6 February, 2014
Lucinda Creighton is looking for 'tact and discretion' in her new assistant
The TD is looking for someone to bring organisation to her days.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
‘Concerns will be addressed in full’: Emotional Reilly says baby deaths are ‘disturbing’
The Minister for Health appeared close to tears in the Dáil earlier.
# reform-alliance - Sunday 2 February, 2014
New TD group would be as different from Reform Alliance 'as night and day'
Three independents have been approaching a number of TDs with the aim of forming a group to push common policies.
# reform-alliance - Thursday 30 January, 2014
€600k in leftover funding used to 'manipulate taxpayer', Creighton claims
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’.
# reform-alliance - Saturday 25 January, 2014
Here’s What Happened Today: Saturday
Everyone’s been talking about the fire in Clondalkin, the ‘RA’ conference, and Met Éireann’s storm warning…
9 things we learned from the Reform Alliance’s ‘monster meeting’
The turnout was good, the ideas were flowing and the organisers appeared delighted with themselves. But what chance a political party?
Creighton: I did not approach Peadar Tóibín about Reform conference
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.
‘We need a new party like a hole in the head’: Conference discusses political and health reform
The conference is hearing from various high-profile commentators on political, health and economic reform.
'I'm here to see if reform is actually achievable' (videos)
We asked four people why they’re at the Reform Conference in Dublin today. Here’s what they told us…
Reform Alliance: 'For far too long politics has been seen as a closed shop'
Today’s Reform Conference will open discussion on key areas of reform, writes Terence Flanagan.
Conference must show that Reform Alliance is about more than just abortion issue
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.
# reform-alliance - Friday 24 January, 2014
“There are some very good ministers and some very poor ones”
Lucinda Creighton today took aim at her former cabinet colleagues.
# reform-alliance - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
Creighton insists RA conference logo is 'hardly original' amid Fianna Fáil comparisons
The ‘backwards Fianna Fáil logo’ was how one Cabinet minister described it.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
Mattie McGrath would consider joining Reform Alliance, Creighton says they'll work with anyone
“I am prepared to consider anything,” the Tipperary South TD told TheJournal.ie today.
# reform-alliance - Sunday 19 January, 2014
Mathews wants all the political parties to support his European Parliament bid
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.
# reform-alliance - Monday 13 January, 2014
Column: The Reform Alliance – should we expect radical change... or more of the same?
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.
# reform-alliance - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
Expelled FG TD: Kenny doesn't hold grudges, but decision to readmit me lies with him
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.
# reform-alliance - Monday 6 January, 2014
Creighton and Timmins insist Reform Alliance conference not prelude to political party
“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.
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Poll: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they're permitted to open on 29 June?
THE PLAN TO re-open Ireland has accelerated rapidly, after the Taoiseach yesterday announced a string of guidelines that had been brought forward.
One of those guidelines concerns pubs. The original plan had been to re-open them at the beginning of Phase Five in August, but under the new plans pubs that serve food will be permitted to open when Phase Three begins on 29 June.
They do not require a restaurant licence to open but must comply with strict social distancing protocols which would prohibit gatherings around the bar and require people to be served at appropriately spaced tables.
Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan urged pubs to be “sensible” yesterday, and added that a few “fellas drinking pints and eating a packet of peanuts” will not constitute a pub operating as a restaurant.
Restaurants will also be permitted to open from this date, as long as they adhere to the above protocols.
So, today we’re asking you: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they’re permitted to open on 29 June?
Poll Results:
I'll leave it a week or two, maybe longer (5997)
No (4700)
Maybe sometime during that week (3775)
Yes, on the 29th (3091)
I wouldn't usually frequent them anyway (1431)
Not sure (1149)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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