Mary Seery Kearney

Requests for financial supports for Irish couples with surrogate babies in Ukraine

Parents unable to travel due to security situation paying nannies in interim period

State speeds up repatriation process for Irish surrogate babies from Ukraine

Department fast-tracks paperwork for return of newborns amid security crisis

Travel documents for Irish surrogacy babies in Ukraine to be fast-tracked

Government looking at ways to help Irish couples bring home babies more quickly

Coalition not to oppose Bill seeking to remove ‘child pornography’ term from legislation

Minister warns there are ‘significant legal and technical issues that do need to be addressed’

Garda hopeful of arrest after man dies while trying to prevent car theft

Dublin-based car thief identified as chief suspect following death of businessman

Sinn Féin accounts for bulk of reported political party donations in 2020

Party discloses €70,668 out of €152,000 for all parties to public standards body

FG report calls for major rethink to country’s childcare sector

Among solutions proposed are measures designed to ease financial burden

Taoiseach: Garda vetting should be looked at for agencies, volunteers in homeless services

Social Democrats raise concerns in wake of allegations against founder of charity

Senator rails against ‘vexatious claims’ to WRC

Some employers before commission so often they should have ‘bunk beds in the corner’

Non-disclosure agreements: ‘People are actually terrified to speak out against them’

Minister for Equality to commission research into an issue about which little is known

Senator speaks of personal experience of IVF treatment, miscarriage and surrogacy

Government commits to paid leave for bereavement, reproductive health treatment

Cyberattackers are new ‘mafiosa’ and must be treated like ‘bank robbers, drug cartels’

Data must be considered like ‘gold’ as 30 per cent of EU’s information stored in Ireland

RTÉ must stop showing lotto draw during children’s movies, Seanad told

Minister acknowledges lack of gambling controls make Ireland a ‘wild west’

McDowell fears amended law on identifying deceased children ‘unintelligible’

Minister insists Bill is clear and flexible and will allow parents to remember children in public

Government has no plans to create new employment status for gig workers

UK ruling has extended additional rights to casual workers such as Deliveroo riders

Not possible to salvage recordings of mother and baby home survivors, Minister says

Roderic O’Gorman says commission of investigation told him ‘ tapes are not retrievable’

ESRI officer defends comments on housing scheme amid Government pushback

Conor O’Toole faces questioning by housing committee over shared-equity plan concerns

‘Severe overestimation’ of Leaving Cert calculated grades by some schools - official

Estimated grades saw 13.8% awarded H1s by teachers compared to 4.7% in previous years

Fine Gael Senator is threatened with violence on social media following canvassing post

Mary Seery Kearney was ‘physically sick’ after reading physical and sexual threats online

‘Huge insult’ not to be told about Seanad snub, says Marshall

Former senator claims entire unionist community feels let down by lack of representation

Seanad nominees welcomed by National Women’s Council

Campaigners highlight ‘missed opportunity’ to nominate woman of colour as senator

Rural Ireland ‘has nothing to fear’ from the Greens, FG councillors are told

Varadkar seeks to assuage concerns in Fine Gael over government with Eamon Ryan’s party

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