Alex White

Alex White Alex White (1958) is the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and a Labour Party TD for Dublin South

British soldiers guarding the railways in 1920. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Off the rails – An Irishman’s Diary on the 1920 munitions strike

Opinion
December 13, 2020

Paddy Barnes leads Team Ireland out at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympics. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

24:22 Tokyo dreaming: Ireland’s Olympics team slowly taking shape

Other Sports
October 19, 2020

Ireland could send as many as 90 athletes to Japan – an increase on Brazil four years ago

Most observers feel Catherine Martin will retain her seat. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Election 2020: Dublin Rathdown constituency profile

Politics
February 4, 2020

List of high-profile scalps claimed by voters of this constituency is long and impressive

Paul Anthony McDermott’s funeral was held in same church he had married his wife Annick five years previously and where his sons were baptised in the following years. Photograph: Collins Courts.

Paul Anthony McDermott a ‘fantastic father’ with ‘great sense of justice’, funeral hears

Irish News
December 14, 2019

Barrister had ‘extraordinary grá for life, for his family, for his work and for his students’

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte announced the National Broadband Plan (NBP) on August 30th, 2012, describing it as “the rural electrification of the 21st century”.

Broadband timeline: how did we get here?

Technology
November 19, 2019

Government’s flagship communications policy seven years in the making

Gay Byrne’s great strength as a radio host was his capacity to listen: his listeners trusted him with secrets they would not share with their nearest and dearest. Photograph: Photograph: Eddie Kelly/The Irish Times

Hold the mic: How Gay Byrne ruled the radio waves

Culture
November 4, 2019

Radio show arguably even more important catalyst for change than The Late Late

Former holders of the post of minister of state with responsibility for drugs have united to call on the Government to restore confidence in the national drug strategy.

Former ministers fear national drug strategy being ‘undermined’

Social Affairs
October 30, 2019

Government urged not to take powers away from community and voluntary sectors

Sorting votes at the Dublin count centre for European election at the RDS. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Elections 2019: What we know so far

Politics
May 27, 2019

Varadkar refuses to rule out early general election while Green wave sweeps through locals

Labour leader Brendan Howlin speaking to the media at the RDS on Sunday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Labour’s hopes of rebirth must wait

Irish News
May 26, 2019

Party gets some key wins despite Greens stealing its thunder

Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan speaks to the media as counting begins in the Local and European Elections and divorce referendum at the RDS in Dublin. Photograph: PA

Elections 2019: Green wave sees tide go out for Varadkar and Sinn Féin

Politics
May 25, 2019

Analysis: FG and FF have been spinning furiously but there’s no spinning out of this

Fine Gael’s two Dublin candidates for the European elections, Frances Fitzgerald and Mark Durkan, canvassing at St Stephen’s Green Luas stop in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

'I don’t know much about it' - European hopefuls struggle to engage Dublin electorate

Politics
May 17, 2019

Candidates frame vote as a choice between pro-European stance and Eurosceptic populism

Anne Rabbitte, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East: ‘Pressure was put on’ by people who wanted to support Mr Smith and not her, she claimed.

FF TD says she is being pushed aside in favour of running mate

Irish News
May 17, 2019

Anne Rabbitte and Brendan Smith standing in Midlands North West as party chases seats

Labour leader Brendan Howlin: turns out his predecessor Pat Rabbitte supports the Government’s national broadband plan. Checkmate. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Miriam Lord: Broadband is all Labour’s idea, Varadkar tells a stunned Howlin

Politics
May 14, 2019

Taoiseach reckons if you can’t get Opposition to support the plan, then make them own it

Independents4Change TD Clare Daly has a chance in Dublin. She is marginally ahead, at 10%, of Ciarán Cuffe of the Greens and Alex White of Labour.

Irish Times view on the latest Ipsos MRBI opinion poll: fair wind for Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil

Editorial
May 10, 2019

New European Parliament will have a critical role in charting the future of the European project

At this early stage of the campaign undecided voters in South stand at 30%.

Fine Gael top poll on starting line but all to play for

Politics
May 10, 2019

Positive signs for Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin as main Opposition party to build on 2014 result

The poll figures for Midlands North West

Two big questions in Midlands North West – can FF take seat and what of Casey?

Politics
May 10, 2019

The poll figures suggest a ferocious dogfight for the last two seats in the Dublin constituency

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton TD speaking to media following the publication of Peter Smyth’s Report on his review into the procurement process for the National Broadband Plan at Government Buildings, Dublin.Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Broadband timeline: how did we get here?

Technology
April 26, 2019

Seven years in the making, Government’s flagship communications policy

Independent TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly: “Increasingly what we deal with in the Irish parliament either comes from Europe directly or Europe is being used as an excuse why we can’t do things that benefit Irish people.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Daly, Wallace will still attend Oireachtas committees if elected to EU

Irish News
April 17, 2019

The deputies will aim to bring “Europe home in a timely way” to Irish voters

Speaking at the announcement of his candidacy in the European elections, Ciarán Cuffe said: “I want Dublin to be known for its walkability, bikeability and liveability.”

Euro election will be ‘climate change’ election, says Green candidate

Irish News
April 15, 2019

Cllr Ciarán Cuffe says he is confident of getting one of the three seats in Dublin

European Parliament: Due to Brexit, the seat allocation to Ireland rises from 11 to 13. Photograph: Vincent Kessler

European elections loom in much-changed landscape

Europe
February 21, 2019

Europe Letter: Fianna Fáil likely to be big winners in European poll in May

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