Peadar Tobin
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Miriam Lord: Unity and common purpose in spades but not for Covid fight
- Politics
- November 24, 2020, 22:32
Ireland is the second-best small country in the world in which to fight Covid. But does anybody give a flying Finn? “One would hardly realise that(...)

Ex-speaker for dissident republican group Gary Donnelly tops Derry poll
- Politics
- May 4, 2019, 12:31
It was a bruising election for Sinn Féin in Derry and Strabane, where the party lost five seats and their position as the largest party on the council(...)

MP faces down Senator Feargal Quinn on below-cost alcohol sales
- Companies
- July 3, 2015, 01:25
Greg Mulholland, a UK Liberal Democrat MP and traditional pub industry campaigner, put on a frightfully good show on Tuesday when he addressed the Oir(...)
![Allan Thomas at his home in Kilmessan, Co Meath: ‘I feel like I’m making my family homeless. I don’t understand why this [scheme] didn’t work. Educated people told me this would work.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne Allan Thomas at his home in Kilmessan, Co Meath: ‘I feel like I’m making my family homeless. I don’t understand why this [scheme] didn’t work. Educated people told me this would work.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne](/polopoly_fs/1.2232610.1433087957!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
‘I’ve nothing to offer the court now next week – I’m at the end’
- Social Affairs
- June 1, 2015, 01:00
Allan Thomas, (40), a father of three living in Kilmessan, Co Meath, will be in court next Monday, almost certainly to hear a repossession order mad(...)

Irish lessons not learned yet as FG women seethe
- Politics
- July 17, 2014, 01:01
There’s a grim summer in prospect for poor Joe McHugh. The new junior minister with responsibility for the Gaeltacht isn’t very good at speaking Ir(...)

National day of action against closure of hospitals planned
- Health
- January 11, 2014, 17:51
A national ‘day of action’, with demonstrations in towns across the State, will take place in early April, as part of a new national campaign against (...)

Mary Carey (64), who has had a spinal injury for 20 years and cannot walk unaided, lives with her husband John (72) in a small house just off the D(...)