Fergus O'Dowd

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Drogheda City Status: town crier Sean Callan and Dr Brian Hughes with his report about the Louth town’s future. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
‘There’s a real anger in Drogheda that they’re being overlooked again’

Having spent weeks pounding the pavements to get people to sign the petition to make Drogheda a city, Annie McGinley is unusually qualified to give a (...)

Ireland’s next taoiseach: Leo Varadkar arrives at the Fine Gael count on Friday. Photograph: Alan Betson
Campaign for Leo: The inside story of how Varadkar beat Simon Coveney

Buying pints on an early-summer evening in Dublin may have seemed a pleasant task, but it was work all the same. John Paul Phelan, the Fine Gael TD fo(...)