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# Reform Alliance

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# Support
There's MORE good news for Enda and Joan in the latest opinion poll
Shane and Lucinda, maybe not so much.
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Jan 24th 2015, 7:48 PM
# to join or not to join
'Lucinda or Shane never knocked at my door ... they probably knew better'
So, are any Senators going to join the new alliance or party?
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Jan 21st 2015, 10:00 AM
# reboot ireland
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.
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Jan 2nd 2015, 10:49 PM
# party time
Lucinda Creighton is set to announce a new political party today
She will be joined by four other Reform Alliance members.
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Jan 2nd 2015, 8:05 AM
# Your Say
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.
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Dec 4th 2014, 9:45 AM
# Change
Shane Ross is the current favourite to lead a new political party
That’s according to a poll that the Independent TD commissioned himself.
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Nov 23rd 2014, 1:41 PM
# Can't we be friends?
The massive row that shut down the Dáil on Wednesday is only getting worse
It’s complicated, but let us explain…
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Oct 24th 2014, 5:25 PM
# New Job
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.
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Oct 23rd 2014, 10:20 AM
# not getting along
Three TDs have been suspended from the Dáil after a massive row
And the Dáil has now been suspended until tomorrow morning.
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Oct 22nd 2014, 4:15 PM
# Join Me
Is Lucinda Creighton recruiting for a new party?
She says not yet. Kind of.
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Oct 19th 2014, 2:07 PM
# Friends
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.
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Sep 24th 2014, 5:20 PM
# Awkward
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.
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Sep 17th 2014, 4:50 PM
# Welfare
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.
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Jun 28th 2014, 8:50 AM
# Hoop Dreams
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.
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Jun 17th 2014, 11:41 AM
# mixed messages
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.
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Jun 11th 2014, 8:30 PM
# ch-ch-ch-changes
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.
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Jun 11th 2014, 1:40 PM
# Analysis
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.
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Jun 3rd 2014, 11:54 AM
# Gone for good
'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.
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Apr 29th 2014, 3:47 PM
# Bursting Bubbles
Is this the solution to property bubbles?
The Reform Alliance reckon it has housing bubbles licked.
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Apr 25th 2014, 6:23 PM
# He's out
'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.
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Mar 19th 2014, 12:30 PM
# whip system
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.
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Feb 28th 2014, 9:37 PM
# Making a move
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.
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Feb 18th 2014, 6:30 AM
# Jobswatch
Lucinda Creighton is looking for 'tact and discretion' in her new assistant
The TD is looking for someone to bring organisation to her days.
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Feb 6th 2014, 11:32 AM
# Portlaoise Hospital
‘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.
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Feb 5th 2014, 11:40 PM
# collective
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.
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Feb 2nd 2014, 12:57 PM
# top-ups
€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’.
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Jan 30th 2014, 9:10 AM
# News Fix
Here’s What Happened Today: Saturday
Everyone’s been talking about the fire in Clondalkin, the ‘RA’ conference, and Met Éireann’s storm warning…
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Jan 25th 2014, 9:14 PM
# Reform Conference
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?
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Jan 25th 2014, 9:10 PM
# Reform Alliance
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.
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Jan 25th 2014, 3:25 PM
# Reform Alliance
‘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.
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Jan 25th 2014, 1:56 PM
# Reform Conference
'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…
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Jan 25th 2014, 12:38 PM
Voices
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.
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Jan 25th 2014, 9:00 AM
# Analysis
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.
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Jan 25th 2014, 7:00 AM
# The RA
“There are some very good ministers and some very poor ones”
Lucinda Creighton today took aim at her former cabinet colleagues.
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Jan 24th 2014, 10:50 PM
# Reform Alliance
Creighton insists RA conference logo is 'hardly original' amid Fianna Fáil comparisons
The ‘backwards Fianna Fáil logo’ was how one Cabinet minister described it.
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Jan 22nd 2014, 8:00 AM
# The RA
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.
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Jan 21st 2014, 1:44 PM
# Election 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.
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Jan 19th 2014, 8:45 AM
Voices
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.
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Jan 13th 2014, 1:11 PM
# Out in the Cold
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.
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Jan 7th 2014, 7:00 PM
# The RA
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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Jan 6th 2014, 6:15 AM
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