Adrienne Wallace

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Solidarity- People Before Profit candidates Gillian Brien (Dublin) and Adrienne Wallace (South) during a launch by Solidarity- People Before Profit of its European Election campaign. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Tory Brexit not the same as our ‘Lexit’, Boyd Barrett says

The Brexit being pursued by the UK Tory party is not the same as the British withdrawal from the EU which People Before Profit supported three years a(...)

Polling station signage in Rathmines, Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times
Abortion referendum: ‘Young men feel excluded’

While thousands of young people have been deeply involved on both sides of the abortion referendum campaign over the last month, large numbers of youn(...)

Some of the Meet the Voters participants, clockwise from top left: Kate Lawlor, Catherine O’Brien, Maedbh Donaldson, Jerry Kennelly and John O’Brien.
Meet the Voters: Campaign fails to prompt shift in allegiances

A project by The Irish Times to track the impact of the election campaign on the voting intentions of 10 voters has found all have retained their pre(...)

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar. RTÉ has denied claims it uninvited audience members from Sunday night’s general election debate at Facebook’s Dublin headquarters. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
RTÉ denies uninviting audience members from debate

RTÉ has denied claims it uninvited audience members from Sunday night’s general election debate at Facebook’s Dublin headquarters. The exclusion of (...)

Is there a late surprise left in this general election campaign? Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
Election 2016: Sense of anticlimax surrounds dull campaign

It has been the shortest campaign in history but even three weeks has been too long. Last week, the parties started to run out of things to stay. The(...)

The top issue being discussed by Facebook users was the economy, followed by health and infrastructure
RTÉ and Facebook live politics debate generates more light than heat

Politicians who participated in the RTÉ 2 Election special at Facebook’s offices in Dublin on Sunday night generally welcomed the non-confrontational (...)

Kevin Flaherty: ‘I was glued to the debates. It was TV gold. I wish there were elections all the time.’
Unemployed: ‘Established party leaders have been exposed as spoofers’

Kevin Flaherty has been unemployed since 2009 after the construction sector collapsed. He lives in Kilkenny and is concerned about job creation and ho(...)

Kevin Flaherty believes he will spend the next 20 or 30 years ‘until I get my pension scratching out a living for myself’.
Unemployed: Being out of work is demoralising, especially when you keep hearing about ‘recovery’

This article is part of The Irish Times Meet the Voters series, profiling ten sample voters in a bid to track the impact of the 2016 General Election(...)

The byelection will fill the vacancy left by the appointment of Phil Hogan as EU Commissioner for Agriculture. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Writ moved for Carlow-Kilkenny byelection to be held on referendum day, May 22nd

The Government has moved the writ for the Carlow-Kilkenny byelection to fill the vacancy left by the appointment of former minister for the environmen(...)