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Government under pressure to have Minister answer questions on Woulfe appointment
- Crime & Law
- November 16, 2020, 18:22
The Government is facing mounting pressure from the Opposition to facilitate a question and answer session with Minister for Justice Helen McEntee on (...)

FinCEN Files: Scale of challenge facing financial regulators revealed in leaked documents
- Financial Services
- September 25, 2020, 05:51
In September 2015, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, of Wall Street, New York, sent a Suspicious Activity Report (Sar) to the Financial Crimes Enf(...)

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's young and working classes are in the Covid-19 firing line
- Opinion
- September 22, 2020, 01:00
A friend of mine works for the HSE. And she has no entitlement to sick pay. Like tens of thousands of other workers in the health system, she is emplo(...)

The seven rules of making a FF-FG-Green coalition work
- Politics
- May 17, 2020, 06:25
THE GREEN PARTY MAY BE ENTERING GOVERNMENT WITH TWO PARTNERS, WHO HAPPEN TO BE FIERCE POLITICAL RIVALS. THIS NOVEL PARTNERSHIP COULD TAKE SOME GETT(...)

Labour Party: Kelly knows division push for government would cause
- Irish News
- April 7, 2020, 21:19
The turning point for Alan Kelly, and his colleagues’ perceptions of him, came at a meeting of the Labour parliamentary party in Drogheda in September(...)

Restoration of historic Phoenix Park cottage approved
- Environment
- March 30, 2020, 02:36
The Office of Public Works (OPW) has been given permission for extensive refurbishment of a historic house in the Phoenix Park after scrapping plans t(...)

Gardaí’s ‘use of force’ with pepper spray to be strictly monitored
- Crime & Law
- March 7, 2020, 01:00
Gardaí who use pepper spray on members of the public will have to record and account for each incident under strict new controls around the use of for(...)

Alan Kelly and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Who are the Labour leader contenders?
- Irish News
- February 18, 2020, 20:21
Alan Kelly and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the two contenders in the Labour leadership contest, were both first elected to the Dáil as part of the so-called “G(...)

The shape of the 33rd Dáil - gender and age
- Politics
- February 14, 2020
“It’s official – there is no turning back now,” said Claire Kerrane, Sinn Féin’s newly elected TD for Roscommon-Galway, after she signed the roll(...)

The Irish Times view on women in the Dáil: Progress has stalled
- Editorial
- February 11, 2020, 19:00
A disappointing feature of the general election was that the number of women elected to the 33rd Dáil increased by just one. In all 36 women were elec(...)