Lotto ticket worth €1 million sold in Labour TD's shop
Willie Penrose and his wife Anne own the shop in Co Westmeath.
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Willie Penrose and his wife Anne own the shop in Co Westmeath.
“It stimulates you. It invigorates you. It’s what we come from, it’s where we come from”.
Labour TD Willie Penrose has an amendment up for discussion this evening calling for a 40% quota of Irish music on Irish radios.
They were there to launch a new bill from Labour TD Willie Penrose.
Labour’s Willie Penrose wants to give struggling musicians a break.
But only in the event of water charges being suspended…
Penrose had conceded on Saturday evening but this morning he said there is “an outside chance” he’ll get back in.
A large number of Labour deputies missed the vote on a bill to hold a referendum on repealing the 8th Amendment.
Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher stuck-up for former Labour chairman Colm Keaveney in the Dáil this morning.
The Labour Party leader welcomed the news that Willie Penrose is to rejoin the Labour Parliamentary Party.
A Labour TD said he believed that around 1,500 people attended the event.
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How many deputies own property abroad? And where do those who keep their eyes on Ireland’s finances invest themselves?
Former Labour minister Willie Penrose, and Fianna Fáil duo Dara Calleary and Billy Kelleher, received severance last year.
A TV interview, planting a tree, “official business” and committee work in Mozambique are among the reasons for some TDs not voting on last night’s abortion bill.
The barristers carried out work for the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, who represents the State in various courts.
The government has given Jan O’Sullivan a pay raise in line with her status as a ‘super-junior’ minister with a seat at Cabinet.
While the country struggles under immense financial pressure, eight cabinet ministers take expenses that can’t be audited.
Undone by sex scandals, economic failures, uprisings and other controversies, an astonishing number of high-profile figures resigned from their various posts in the past 12 months.
O’Sullivan succeeds Willie Penrose as Housing Minister, while veteran Joe Costello is given her old job at Foreign Affairs.
Enda Kenny says the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has yet to make any recommendation on replacing Willie Penrose.
Junior defence minister Paul Kehoe says closing four rural barracks will help make the Defence Forces “more professional”.
The Social Welfare Bill 2011 will be voted on by TDs tomorrow – but former Labour TDs Penrose and Nulty have broken ranks again.
Was Willie Penrose right to step down over the closure of a local barracks – or should cabinet members accept the need for tough decisions?
The Communications Minister said he understood the reasons for Penrose’s resignation from government yesterday.
Military barracks at Mullingar, Cavan, Clonmel and Castlebar are to close, with 515 military and 25 civilian staff to be relocated.
Labour Party TD and Junior Minister for Housing Willie Penrose is the first ministerial resignation since the government came to office last February.
It will be a long process but the Minister wants to look at using so-called ghost estates for much needed social housing.
The USI is highlighting calls for a deposit protection scheme – Housing junior minister Willie Penrose says he is awaiting feedback from the PRTB on the issue.
The party denies it but that appears to be at odds with the differing lines ministers gave on the much talked about issue yesterday.
The campaign to have debt forgiveness introduced for those unable to meet their home loan payments is gathering voice. Do you think there should be such a scheme?
Chorus of calls for Government to organise a mortgage debt relief scheme for worst-off householders builds to crescendo – and now a government junior minister is backing it…
Housing Minister Willie Penrose said official encouragement of home ownership had contributed to the economic crash.
The latest figures show that there are over 23,000 complete and vacant dwellings in Ireland with nearly 10,000 near completion.
The conditions in Dolphin House in the city centre are being denied the basic human right to a home. the IHRC claims.
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O’Rourke has conceded she will lose her seat in Longford-Westmeath.