# Sinn Féin

This week

4th June 2023 - 9th June 2023

# Mental Health

Some Irish prisoners facing waits of over two years to access mental health treatments

Last year, the average time on a waiting list for mental health supports in the Training Unit was close to 900 days.

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Wed 7:01 PM

# Sinn Féin

Tánaiste criticises Sinn Féin’s attendance at IRA commemoration event in south Armagh

Sinn Féin MP John Finucane is billed as the main speaker for the event in south Armagh, which will involve ‘music and kids entertainment’.

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Wed 6:00 PM

Last week

28th May 2023 - 3rd June 2023

# Housing

Leo Varadkar says he believes homeless figures will fall

There were 12,259 people in emergency accommodation last month.

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May 30th 2023, 3:49 PM

# Coalition

'It's pure electioneering': Barry Cowen hits out at Fine Gael

Cowen was responding to comments made by the Taoiseach yesterday.

19.8k

May 28th 2023, 4:23 PM

# sinn féin surge

Sinn Féin support growing at the expense of government parties, poll shows

Sinn Féin support is at 34%, while Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are on 20% and 15% respectively.

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May 28th 2023, 8:08 AM

Last month

May 2023

# The North

‘Sinn Féin look unstoppable’: What next for NI's major parties after the local elections?

‘They are also on course to become the largest party south of the border at the next election there, that’s basically the set.’

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May 24th 2023, 6:30 AM

# hospital name

No opposition to motion calling for new Children's Hospital to be named after Dr Kathleen Lynn

The Government will ultimately make the call on what the new hospital will be called.

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May 23rd 2023, 5:48 PM

# The North

DUP says Sinn Féin's NI election success case of 'turning nationalist vote into republican vote'

The DUP leader rejected the suggestion that there was any movement towards a united Ireland after the council elections.

23.7k

May 22nd 2023, 4:04 PM

# Local Elections

Sinn Féin's O'Neill puts pressure on British and Irish governments over Stormont

Sinn Fein emerged as the largest party in the local government elections this week.

16.9k

May 21st 2023, 10:44 PM

# ableism

Taoiseach criticised for 'offensive' language after 'slow learners' remark about Sinn Féin

A spokesperson said that the Taoiseach’s remark was a reference to Seamus Mallon’s famous turn of phrase about the Good Friday Agreement.

35.7k

May 20th 2023, 2:42 PM

# Northern Ireland

Sinn Féin storming ahead in historic Northern Ireland local election

If Sinn Féin continues its winning streak, it will be the first time a nationalist party has had the most council seats in Northern Ireland.

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May 20th 2023, 9:07 AM

# NI Local Elections

Taoiseach offers support for A5 upgrades and ‘hopes’ Stormont can be restored after NI elections

Close to 50 people have died on the road since the project was approved in 2007.

7.7k

May 18th 2023, 1:22 PM

THE MORNING LEAD

'This isn't about bin collections': Weary Northern Ireland to vote in decisive election

A report by

Eimer McAuley

The Alliance party looks set to emerge as the third biggest party at local government level.

Today, voters across Northern Ireland will head to the polls to have their say in the first local council elections since 2019.

"This isn't about getting your bins collected. This is about the current form of Government in Northern Ireland, and the ongoing impasse."

Eimer McAuley reports on the issues being raised on the doorsteps.

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May 18th 2023, 12:05 AM

# NI Local Elections

On the election trail in Belfast: Local issues take back seat as Stormont stalemate looms large

On the canvass trail with representatives from four different parties, the lack of an executive was the overarching theme.

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May 15th 2023, 12:05 AM

THE MORNING LEAD

Holly Cairns says she'll talk to all parties after next election but 'change' is in the air

A report by

Christina Finn

The new Social Democrats leader spoke to The Journal in a wide-ranging interview.

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May 14th 2023, 12:05 AM

# Cost of Living

Government accused of ‘sitting on its hands’ during cost-of-living crisis

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil the Government was introducing measures every month to help people struggling with bills.

12.8k

May 9th 2023, 6:35 PM

# Cost of Living

Govt acting like commentators by failing to ensure energy companies pass on savings, says SF

Irish wholesale electricity prices have been falling in recent months.

8.4k

May 3rd 2023, 1:57 PM

# Northern Ireland

Support for DUP up but Sinn Féin remains most popular party in NI, poll suggests

Recent polling put support for Sinn Féin on 29% in the North, and the DUP on 25%.

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May 1st 2023, 1:12 PM

April

April 2023

# Irish Republican

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and SF's Michelle O'Neill to attend King Charles' coronation next week

The UK’s King Charles and his wife Camilla will be crowned in Westminster Abbey on 6 May.

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Apr 26th 2023, 3:16 PM

# budget 2024

Varadkar: No immediate mortgage relief but measure will be examined as part of Budget 2024

The Sinn Féin leader said that the hikes were like “body blows” to households.

11.7k

Apr 26th 2023, 1:31 PM

# Sinn Féin

FG and FF upping pressure on Sinn Féin to clarify past dealings with Jonathan Dowdall

McDonald insists Dowdall would would not have been near Sinn Féin had they known about involvement in crime.

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Apr 19th 2023, 12:31 PM

# gfa 25

Explainer: What is the Good Friday Agreement?

The 25th anniversary of the landmark deal is being marked – here’s what’s in it.

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Apr 7th 2023, 11:10 AM

Voices

Opinion: Shouldn't protest art provoke exactly the response we've seen this week?

Art History and Cultural Policy Associate Professor, Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald, looks at the controversy this week around a reworked famine-era eviction scene.

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Apr 5th 2023, 10:54 AM

# Controversy

Cork city councillors 'stunned' after tense and abrupt end to eviction ban meeting

Sinn Féin have claimed FG and FF breached council standing orders.

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Apr 4th 2023, 2:46 PM

# opposition spokespeople

This is the new Sinn Féin front bench

Mary Lou McDonald said the new front bench would lead the party into the next General Election.

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Apr 3rd 2023, 3:28 PM

# gfa 25

'The DUP won't be celebrating': Why do a majority of unionists oppose the Good Friday Agreement?

The 25th anniversary won’t be a cause of celebration for everyone.

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Apr 2nd 2023, 7:30 AM

# eviction ban

Justice minister slams 'disrespectful' tweet by Eoin Ó Broin of Gardaí edited into eviction scene

Government TDs and the head of a Garda representative body have criticised the TD for an edited image of Gardaí at a 19th-century eviction.

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Apr 1st 2023, 7:59 PM

# Housing

Protesters gather outside Leinster House calling for eviction ban to be reinstated

The protest, organised by the Cost of Living Coalition, began at 1pm on Kildare Street.

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Apr 1st 2023, 2:55 PM

THE MORNING LEAD

Housing crisis: Protest to take place at Leinster House today as eviction ban ends

A report by

Tadgh McNally

Protestors are due to gather outside Leinster House at 1pm.

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Apr 1st 2023, 12:05 AM

March

March 2023

# Jets

Private jets in firing line as report shows over 6,000 flights left Irish airports last year

People Before Profit is to bring a Bill to the Dáil after Easter to ban private jets in Irish air space.

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Mar 30th 2023, 2:18 PM

# Dail vote

Government block Sinn Féin bill to extend eviction ban to January 2024

The bill was tabled by Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin last week and was debated yesterday.

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Mar 29th 2023, 7:48 PM

# eviction ban

Government wins confidence motion in the Dáil by 86 votes to 67

Green TD Neasa Hourigan, who voted against the government over the eviction ban last week, was among those to vote confidence in the government.

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Mar 29th 2023, 12:16 PM

# Housing

Sinn Féin says government is lowering social housing numbers by excluding HAP and RAS tenants

Ó Broin said the removal of HAP and RAS tenants from the social housing need figures was ‘deeply dishonest’.

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Mar 24th 2023, 6:00 PM

# No Confidence

Govt facing more eviction ban headaches as Labour and SF prepare motions and new laws

Labour is proceeding with its no-confidence motion, while Sinn Féín proposes new legislation to halt evictions.

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Mar 23rd 2023, 2:22 PM

# eviction ban

Government wins counter motion vote against extending eviction ban

Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan voted against the government’s counter motion, which passed 83 votes to 68.

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Mar 22nd 2023, 9:00 PM

# Debate

Ending eviction ban will see 'levels of homelessness nobody thought possible', Dáil told

The Dáil is debating a Sinn Féin motion which is calling for the eviction ban to be extended until January next year.

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Mar 21st 2023, 8:49 PM

# Under Pressure

Cabinet agrees counter measures to Sinn Féin's eviction ban motion

It’s in response to a Sinn Féin motion to extend the eviction ban that will be debated in the Dáil later today and voted on tomorrow.

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Mar 21st 2023, 2:00 PM

# Stormont

Sinn Féin and DUP both rise in new Northern Ireland opinion poll

The poll put support for Sinn Féin at 30.6% and DUP at 23.9%.

14.1k

Mar 21st 2023, 8:23 AM

# eviction ban

Coalition leaders reach 'broad agreement' on counter to Sinn Féin motion to extend eviction ban

Sinn Féin’s motion on Wednesday will call for the eviction ban to be extended until January 2024.

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Mar 20th 2023, 11:01 PM

# Northern Ireland

Windsor Framework: DUP to vote against Government on 'Stormont Brake'

Jeffrey Donaldson said that while the proposed terms represent “real progress”, it fails to address “the imposition of EU law by the Protocol”.

The first Commons vote on the EU/UK agreement on trading arrangements for Northern Ireland will take place on Wednesday.

Downing Street has said the UK government has no plans to seek changes to the deal despite the DUP's decision to oppose it.

Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O'Neill has said "the deal is done" and the onus is on all parties to get Stormont moving.

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Mar 20th 2023, 5:38 PM