Emer Higgins

‘People need solutions now, not in 10 years’: TDs respond to housing plan

Government TDs hope improvements in housing will aid election next campaign

Tánaiste says thousands will attend trial sports events in June and July

Smaller outdoor events to return with up to 200 spectators

Tánaiste’s leak remains a hot topic in political circles, especially in Fine Gael

Many in the party accept Varadkar’s argument that his actions were in the national interest

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

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