Emer Higgins

Minister urged to recommend vitamin D supplements in Covid-19 strategy

TD criticises Government’s ‘do-nothing caution’ after Nphet says insufficient evidence to support move

‘Hard-hitting’ advertising needed to shock people on Covid-19, Dáil told

Fine Gael TD claims awareness campaign urging hand washing ‘not tough enough’

Lockdown exit plan to see ‘enjoyable and safe’ Christmas - Taoiseach

Fianna Fáil meeting hears recriminations over how party HQ ran election strategy

Taoiseach faces calls for Level 2 ‘with tweaks’ after lockdown ends

Families need clarity on Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Chrismas, party meetings told

Teenagers eating cannabis-laced confectionery, Dáil told

Fine Gael TD alerts colleagues to worrying trend of young people using edible narcotic

Miriam Lord: FG’s rural TDs take on party’s city slickers

The country crew were not about to let the Dubs bag all the top parliamentary party jobs

Richard Bruton elected chairman of Fine Gael parliamentary party

Long-serving TD elected unopposed, with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill as vice-chair

‘Drug craze’: Use of laughing gas by under-18s should be banned – FG TD

Google ‘profiting’ from sale of nitrous oxide, which causes paralysis and death, says Emer Higgins

Facial covering likely to be ‘allowed and encouraged’ from next week, Dáil told

Minister for Transport says CMO ‘likely to make recommendation’ on issue

The view from Clondalkin: If Sinn Féin don’t get in, ‘there will be marches’

The last thing many voters in west Dublin want to see is a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition

Miriam Lord: Dáil’s pessimistic return fails to solve leaders’ questions

Early celebrations give way to gloom as a stable government remains a distant hope

Fine Gael: ‘We are preparing to go into Opposition’

Party says FF must coalesce with SF or others if Mary Lou McDonald’s party fails to form left government

Election 2020: Emer Higgins (Fine Gael)

Dublin Mid-West – Elected 9th count

Dublin Mid West results: Jubilant scenes as Gino Kenny takes final seat

Fine Gael’s Emer Higgins also elected while Fianna Fáil’s John Curran loses out

‘It’s something you don’t want to hear. You always think it happens in other places’

Shock and heartbreak in west Dublin at tragic deaths of three McGinley children

Dublin house deaths: Three young children named

Murder inquiry expected after bodies of Conor, Darragh, Carla McGinley found in Newcastle

Community in shock after three children die: ‘It is just horrific’

Deaths in Newcastle: ‘They were just normal kids . . . out there playing and they were happy’

Election 2020: Dublin Mid-West constituency profile

Seat won by Sinn Féin in recent byelection may be short-lived

Taoiseach faces fallout from four byelection defeats

Pressure within Fine Gael for Varadkar to remove Verona Murphy from Wexford general election ticket

Byelections 2019: FF wins two seats, SF, Greens one each

Fianna Fáil on course to win seats in Cork and Wexford, Greens likely to win in Fingal

Byelection Dublin Mid-West: Sinn Féin’s Mark Ward elected

Result shows SF are clear alternative to FF and FG at general election, says McDonald

Turnout expected to be low for four Dáil byelections

Fianna Fáil tipped to win at least two seats as voters go to polls in Cork, Dublin and Wexford

Fiach Kelly: Dáil byelections a leap into the unknown

Turnout in Fingal, Wexford, Cork North Central and Dublin Mid West is expected to be around the mid 30 per cent mark

Miriam Lord: Leo makes Wexford wait while Wallace takes the Mick

Learjet woes, compo culture and Maria Bailey all made an appearance this week

Taoiseach’s head of policy rules out general election before May 2020

Comments follow days of speculation that Varadkar could go to country in November

Opposition to Traveller accommodation runs deep

Hostility towards Travellers poses many problems for county councils

Voter backlash evident in South Dublin as SF romp home

Sinn Féin looking good for eight seats in South Dublin

FG candidates accused of playing ‘Traveller card’

Councillor ‘delighted’ Traveller housing scheme she voted for is cancelled

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