Mark Ward
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Disabled children ‘being left behind again’ by Covid-19 measures
- Social Affairs
- December 1, 2020, 19:57
Disabled children “are being left behind again” because welfare staff who should be helping them have been redeployed by the Health Service Executive (...)

Abuse survivor in ‘Cinderella’ case urges others to speak out
- Irish News
- November 18, 2020, 18:37
A young woman, who this week saw her stepmother jailed for a 10-year campaign of physical abuse and psychological torment, has urged anyone suffering (...)

Woman who beat stepdaughter and compared her to Cinderella jailed
- Irish News
- November 17, 2020, 14:59
A woman has been jailed after admitting to beating her then six-year-old stepdaughter with a poker, forcing her to eat food spiked with hot and bitter(...)

Eight politicians swear statements to receive full expenses for lockdown period
- Politics
- October 26, 2020, 03:01
Eight TDs and Senators have sworn a statement before a peace commissioner or commissioner of oaths to say they were present in the Dáil or Seanad duri(...)

‘The top of my finger was gone’: Fireworks a clear and present danger in Halloween run-up
- Social Affairs
- September 26, 2020, 03:45
Last Monday night, at about 9.30pm, Ballyfermot 17-year-old Seán Redmond blew the top off his right index finger and almost his entire right thumb. H(...)

Gardaí ‘less concerned with bangers being thrown than bangers being eaten in pubs’
- Politics
- September 14, 2020, 07:36
Gardaí are more concerned at checking if people had if people “had bangers and mash in a pub” than they are about bangers and other fireworks being th(...)

Roadmap for managing Covid-19 ‘must have plan for older people’
- Politics
- September 9, 2020, 22:17
The Government must ensure that its medium-term plan on dealing with Covid-19 to be announced next week is “elderly proofed”. Labour Party leader Ala(...)

Coronavirus: Researchers fear crisis has ‘unmasked’ ageist attitudes
- Social Affairs
- March 27, 2020, 09:09
A report on the economic and social value of Ireland’s older population has been published due to concerns over a rise of ageist attitudes relating to(...)

Election 2020: How Sinn Féin turned their fortunes around
- Irish News
- February 10, 2020
Two years after she was elected Sinn Féin president, Mary Lou McDonald has wildly exceeded the expectations of party members who chose her to succeed (...)

Election 2020: Mark Ward (Sinn Féin)
- Politics
- February 9, 2020, 18:43
North Clondalkin native Mark Ward has retained the seat he first won three months ago in the byelection held after Fine Gael former tánaiste Frances F(...)