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‘Hard-hitting’ advertising needed to shock people on Covid-19, Dáil told
- Politics
- November 19, 2020, 20:45
A Government backbencher has called for Road Safety Authority-style advertising on Covid-19 that will shock people because the current awareness campa(...)

Lockdown exit plan to see ‘enjoyable and safe’ Christmas - Taoiseach
- Irish News
- November 18, 2020, 21:57
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Government will make a decision on exiting lockdown next week, and that there will be a Dáil debate on the issue(...)

Families should be given clarity over Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Christmas, while the risk of ongoing economic and social damage from lockdowns ne(...)

Teenagers eating cannabis-laced confectionery, Dáil told
- Politics
- September 10, 2020, 19:06
Teenagers are eating cannabis-laced chocolate and gummy bears that can trigger hallucinations or psychosis, the Dáil has been told. Fine Gael TD Emer(...)

Miriam Lord: FG’s rural TDs take on party’s city slickers
- Politics
- July 25, 2020, 01:00
An urban-versus-rural battle in Fine Gael this week revived memories of the Great Heave of 2010, when country and western Enda Kenny routed the leader(...)

Richard Bruton elected chairman of Fine Gael parliamentary party
- Irish News
- July 22, 2020, 21:42
Richard Bruton has been unanimously elected as the new chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party. The Dublin Bay North TD stood unopposed at a me(...)

‘Drug craze’: Use of laughing gas by under-18s should be banned – FG TD
- Politics
- July 16, 2020, 17:36
A call has been made for a ban on the use by under-18s of the latest drug “craze”– nitrous oxide or laughing gas – in the wake of deaths in Dublin and(...)

Facial covering likely to be ‘allowed and encouraged’ from next week, Dáil told
- Oireachtas
- May 13, 2020, 19:30
Minister for Transport Shane Ross has said it was likely that “facial coverings will be allowed and encouraged” on public transport and in shops, from(...)

The view from Clondalkin: If Sinn Féin don’t get in, ‘there will be marches’
- Social Affairs
- February 22, 2020, 01:00
There will be protests on the streets if Sinn Féin and the left are not in the next Government, says Jacqueline Colgan (47), a community employment (C(...)

Outside Leinster House it was like the prelude to a boyband concert. A high-spirited crowd, dressed to the nines and giddy with excitement, held homem(...)