Alex White

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

Denis Naughten, who resigned as minister for communications on Thursday. File photograph: Alan Betson

Broadband timeline: August 2012 to October 2018

Technology
October 12, 2018

The National Broadband Plan was originally welcomed as ‘the rural electrification of the 21st century’

Ossian Smyth, Green Party councillor and chair of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, said the Mount Anville site cannot be sold without a “specific disposal motion” coming forward. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

Council rejects attempt to keep south Dublin site for Travellers

Irish News
October 8, 2018

Mount Anville site had been earmarked for Traveller accommodation

Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan at the count centre for the local and European elections. File photograph: Keith Heneghan

Ireland may see a political overhaul in European elections

Politics
September 28, 2018

State is set to gain two MEP seats from Brexit, while boundary changes will also take a toll

Brendan Howlin succeeded Joan Burton as Labour leader in May 2016.

Labour councillors express support for leader Brendan Howlin

Irish News
August 4, 2018

Sixteen councillors say now is not the time to change the party leadership

What we’ve ended up with after 16 years is a tendering process in which there is just a single bidder which has no experience at all of building this kind of infrastructure. Photograph: Karl Hussey/Fennell Photography

Fintan O'Toole: The big hold up for rural broadband is ideology

Opinion
August 4, 2018

Using the 1950s State electricity model would be a sin against the new orthodoxy

RTÉ says that since 2009, the number of ‘no TV’ homes has grown by more than 200 per cent, resulting in ‘lost’ funding of €24 million.

What are the Government’s public media funding options?

Media & Marketing
July 27, 2018

Eight choices for reforming support for Irish broadcasting in a global media business

The UL Bohemians players celebrate with the trophy. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho

UL Bohs the cream of the crop again

Rugby
April 21, 2018

Old Belvedere beaten in AIL final for the second year running

Waiting for Revenue recognition: Seamus White and John O’Sullivan’s tax certificates still record them as civil partners. Photograph: Alan Betson

‘It beggars belief that Revenue are still unable to recognise us as married’

Social Affairs
February 7, 2018

Three years after Irish recognised same-sex marriage, tax agency’s computers do not

The ambition of Minister for Communications Denis Naughten is to provide “next generation” broadband to all homes and businesss in the State through a combination of commercial and State investment. Photograph: Maxwells.

What went wrong with the rural broadband scheme?

Technology
February 1, 2018

Why ‘rural electrification for the 21st century’ is taking so long

Alex White said: “Our relationship with the EU is the central political and economic question of our time.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Alex White seeks nomination to run for European Parliament

Politics
January 1, 2018

Former minister will not stand in next general election for Labour Party

A 40m gas flare from the Ocean Guardian drilling rig during a well production test at the Corrib field in 2014.

Reasons for gas fault in Galway and Mayo ‘should be made public’

Irish News
September 25, 2017

Gas Networks Ireland says safe gas restored to all consumers in West

Gardaí engage in a shoving match with protesters outside the Corrib gas terminal site in Ballinaboy, Co Mayo. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Corrib gas timeline: 20 years of protests and controversy

Irish News
July 13, 2017

Shell sells stake marking milestone in project beset by problems and court cases

The project to pump gas ashore from the Corrib field 80km off north Mayo was pioneered by Enterprise Ireland from 1996 and sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 2002

Little surprise in north Mayo over Shell sale of Corrib share

Irish News
July 12, 2017

Rossport Five member Willie Corduff says it is ‘16 years too late’

Under measures to be agreed by Cabinet this week laptop and tablet owners will not be forced to pay the TV licence

Government backed off TV licence plan over fears of water charges-style protests, claims TD

Politics
May 9, 2017

Minister has dropped proposals to expand €160 fee to devices over 12 inches

Senator David Norris on Budget 2017: “I think it is a complete and utter waste of time. It has been leaked for weeks.”

Miriam Lord’s week: “I remember a time when ministers were fired for the smallest leak”

Oireachtas
October 17, 2016

Senator David Norris declares himself “bored senseless” by Budget 2017 until talk turns to pay

Ireland’s last Six Nations triumph in 2015. Photograph: Inpho

Subscriptions loom as Six Nations is not added to free-to-air list

Rugby
September 27, 2016

It had been suggested that the competition would be added and remain free after 2021

Gas flaring at Shell’s Corrib gas terminal in Co Mayo.

Locals disappointed at sanction on Shell for gas flaring

Irish News
September 6, 2016

Shell to Sea says €1,000 fine equivalent to ‘65 seconds... of current Corrib sales revenue’

Former minister for communications Alex White has accused Sinn Féin of having ‘very little impact’ on the Easter Rising commemorations. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

Sinn Féin accused of having ‘little impact’ on Rising centenary

Irish News
August 10, 2016

Alex White says the public was not interested in the republican party’s take on 1916

A gas flaring incident at the Shell-operated Bellanaboy Terminal in Co Mayo. Photograph: Shay Fennelly

EPA is prosecuting Shell over Corrib gas flaring incident

Irish News
July 6, 2016

Energy giant is accused of breaching its emissions license at refinery in north Mayo

Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin: party has announced its new-look front bench. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Howlin denies pact with FF to defeat Government motions

Politics
June 9, 2016

Fine Gael concerned FF and Labour had done deal to co-operate on important motions

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