Jim O Callaghan

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Fianna Fail leader Micheá Martin and Senator Averil Power at the Fianna Fáil press conference on the Seanad Reform Bill 2014 in Dublin today. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
FF proposes fundamental changes to Seanad elections

Fianna Fáil has published a Bill on Seanad reform that proposes fundamental changes to the way in which Senators are elected as well the composition o(...)

Walworth Road Dublin 8, the location of the Jewish Museum and the site for the new larger museum. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times
Jewish museum receives Taoiseach’s backing

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has given his support to the much-enlarged Irish Jewish Museum planned for the Portobello area of Dublin describing it as an “exc(...)

Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects said the winning design that the ESB has for the site was in keeping with a “philosophy within contemporary architecture that you can restore the essence of a historic fabric, in this case the Georgian streetscape, in a contemporary way”.
Do not reinstate Georgian facade on ESB offices , says architect

The traditional Georgian street facade which was torn down in 1965 to make way for the ESB’s headquarters in Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin should not b(...)

The ESB offices on Fitzwilliam Street Lower. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
ESB to tear down Dublin block that ruined ‘Georgian Mile’

Almost 50 years since the demolition of 16 Georgian houses in what was described by conservationists as one of the worst acts of vandalism in the h(...)

Róisín Shortall: “Very few countries of our size have a second house of Parliament, why should we?” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Opposing sides in Seanad referendum step up efforts

The opposing sides in the referendum to scrap the Seanad plan to step up their respective efforts in the final 10 days of the campaign.With polling da(...)

The Walworth Road premises are the last remaining physical evidence of Portobello’s once-thriving Jewish community, which at its peak accounted for up to 80 per cent of the population of the locality. Photograph: David Sleator
Residents appeal against redevelopment of Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin

Residents of Portobello are appealing against Dublin City Council’s decision to approve plans for a expanded Irish Jewish Museum on the site of five t(...)

If the referendum is carried, the Seanad would be abolished from midnight on the day immediately before the next Dáil first meets after the next general election. Photograph: Frank Miller
40 articles of Constitution may have to be amended

Some 40 articles of the Constitution will have to be amended to remove references to the Seanad if the public votes to scrap the Upper House. (...)

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