New grouping with Michael Collins and Richard O’Donoghue offers ‘common sense’ to voters, Fitzmaurice says
Michael Fitzmaurice
Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?
Contentious issues among disaffected rural voters include turf-cutting, nitrates, bog rewetting, roads investment and forestry privatisation
New calculus for Michael Fitzmaurice, Paul Kehoe, Aindrias Moynihan and Cathal Berry after population shifts
More than 350 farmers attend public meeting in Ballinasloe on Sunday raising concerns
Farmers - for and against the rewetting of peat farmland - talk about their hopes and fears on the eve of the next vote on the nature restoration law at the European Parliament on Tuesday
Recent protests in Co Clare show that small-town Ireland is about more than just farmers
Farmers have mobilised for years around the theme of rural neglect. Any new rural political party has to offer something more than simply 'opposite to the Greens'
Many independents unlikely to give up control over their own vote
Independent TD says an Irish rural party could emulate success of Dutch farmers’ party in recent elections
Social Democrats leader describes tax as ‘tokenistic’ and claims it is intended to maintain ‘status quo’
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice says blood sent to England for analysis but family received no results
Regulations will have to be introduced in the autumn for smokey coal, Minister tells Dáil
Emissions ceilings to be decided for economic sectors once budgets come into effect
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