# willie-penrose - Sunday 23 September, 2018
Willie Penrose and his wife Anne own the shop in Co Westmeath.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 15 December, 2016
“It stimulates you. It invigorates you. It’s what we come from, it’s where we come from”.
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# willie-penrose - Wednesday 14 December, 2016
Labour TD Willie Penrose has an amendment up for discussion this evening calling for a 40% quota of Irish music on Irish radios.
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# willie-penrose - Wednesday 28 September, 2016
They were there to launch a new bill from Labour TD Willie Penrose.
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# willie-penrose - Saturday 23 July, 2016
Labour’s Willie Penrose wants to give struggling musicians a break.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 12 May, 2016
But only in the event of water charges being suspended…
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# willie-penrose - Monday 29 February, 2016
Penrose had conceded on Saturday evening but this morning he said there is “an outside chance” he’ll get back in.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 18 December, 2014
A large number of Labour deputies missed the vote on a bill to hold a referendum on repealing the 8th Amendment.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 10 October, 2013
Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher stuck-up for former Labour chairman Colm Keaveney in the Dáil this morning.
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# willie-penrose - Monday 7 October, 2013
The Labour Party leader welcomed the news that Willie Penrose is to rejoin the Labour Parliamentary Party.
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# willie-penrose - Saturday 27 July, 2013
A Labour TD said he believed that around 1,500 people attended the event.
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# willie-penrose - Friday 26 April, 2013
He’s a Labour Party man. That, and all the rest of the day’s celebrity dirt.
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# willie-penrose - Saturday 2 March, 2013
How many deputies own property abroad? And where do those who keep their eyes on Ireland’s finances invest themselves?
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# willie-penrose - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Former Labour minister Willie Penrose, and Fianna Fáil duo Dara Calleary and Billy Kelleher, received severance last year.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 29 November, 2012
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.
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# willie-penrose - Friday 27 April, 2012
The barristers carried out work for the Office of the Chief State Solicitor, who represents the State in various courts.
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# willie-penrose - Friday 10 February, 2012
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.
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# willie-penrose - Friday 3 February, 2012
While the country struggles under immense financial pressure, eight cabinet ministers take expenses that can’t be audited.
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# willie-penrose - Tuesday 27 December, 2011
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.
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# willie-penrose - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
O’Sullivan succeeds Willie Penrose as Housing Minister, while veteran Joe Costello is given her old job at Foreign Affairs.
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# willie-penrose - Wednesday 14 December, 2011
Enda Kenny says the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has yet to make any recommendation on replacing Willie Penrose.
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# willie-penrose - Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Junior defence minister Paul Kehoe says closing four rural barracks will help make the Defence Forces “more professional”.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 8 December, 2011
The Social Welfare Bill 2011 will be voted on by TDs tomorrow – but former Labour TDs Penrose and Nulty have broken ranks again.
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# willie-penrose - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Was Willie Penrose right to step down over the closure of a local barracks – or should cabinet members accept the need for tough decisions?
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The Communications Minister said he understood the reasons for Penrose’s resignation from government yesterday.
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Nine things to know this morning…
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# willie-penrose - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Military barracks at Mullingar, Cavan, Clonmel and Castlebar are to close, with 515 military and 25 civilian staff to be relocated.
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Labour Party TD and Junior Minister for Housing Willie Penrose is the first ministerial resignation since the government came to office last February.
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# willie-penrose - Monday 19 September, 2011
It will be a long process but the Minister wants to look at using so-called ghost estates for much needed social housing.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 25 August, 2011
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.
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The party denies it but that appears to be at odds with the differing lines ministers gave on the much talked about issue yesterday.
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# willie-penrose - Sunday 21 August, 2011
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?
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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…
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 16 June, 2011
Housing Minister Willie Penrose said official encouragement of home ownership had contributed to the economic crash.
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# willie-penrose - Thursday 9 June, 2011
The latest figures show that there are over 23,000 complete and vacant dwellings in Ireland with nearly 10,000 near completion.
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# willie-penrose - Monday 28 March, 2011
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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# willie-penrose - Wednesday 9 March, 2011
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Members of the 31st Dáil get ready for their first day at school; the $250 million ‘sex slave’ lawsuit against American Apparel founder, and the answer to the question that has confounded science for centuries – does Guinness travel well?
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# willie-penrose - Sunday 27 February, 2011
Kevin Humpheys has taken the final seat for Labour in Dublin South-East. Check out how the first day of counting unfolded in key constituencies across the country.
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# willie-penrose - Saturday 26 February, 2011
O’Rourke has conceded she will lose her seat in Longford-Westmeath.
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