Charlie Mccreevy
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EU picks Brexit negotiator the British media will love to hate
- Economy
- July 27, 2016, 10:42
Former European Commissioner Michel Barnier has been appointed as the European Commission’s chief negotiator for the Brexit negotiations. The surpris(...)

Caveat: Better not to query that €280m EU bill
- Business
- July 22, 2016, 06:00
You really can’t win. On Wednesday morning, news started to emerge that the Government had done a deal with drug companies which would save up to €20(...)

Ex-commissioner McCreevy calls for ‘common sense’ Brexit talks
- Economy
- July 11, 2016, 13:42
Former EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy said it would be “the height of folly” if parts of the 28-member European Union took a “vindictive” approach t(...)

Breda O’Brien: New Government but same line on childcare
- Opinion
- May 7, 2016, 01:00
Read quickly, the draft partnership programme for government appears to signal a shift in childcare policy. After all, promising “targeted supports to(...)

How safe is your State pension? Five ways the benefit may be cut
- Personal Finance
- April 5, 2016, 07:30
It is a time bomb that has yet to detonate, but all the evidence seems to suggest that it’s a case of when, not if, it will go off. The problem facin(...)

Profile: Catherine Murphy (SD)
- Oireachtas
- February 27, 2016, 19:28
Catherine Murphy (Social Democrats) was first elected to the Dáil in March 2005 in the byelection to replace departing EU commissioner Fianna Fail’s C(...)

Housing is hot issue in election that is officially kicking off
- Financial Services
- February 3, 2016, 01:00
Housing will be front and centre in the general election campaign that officially kicks off today. There will be two strands to the debate: creating t(...)

Findings unlikely to have a huge bearing on Fianna Fáil vote
- Politics
- January 28, 2016, 01:00
Often when a political party experiences an unprecedented drubbing at an election, a veteran figure is asked to undertake a warts and all assessment o(...)
Serving the national interest
- Editorial
- January 22, 2016, 00:02
Condemning Fianna Fáil for undermining the National Spatial Strategy (NSS) and failing to deliver on regional planning is old hat. But putting an effe(...)

PJ Mara ‘made friends everywhere’, funeral Mass hears
- Politics
- January 16, 2016, 16:00
A Requiem Mass for Patrick Joseph (PJ) Mara, the former government press secretary and Fianna Fáil strategist, has taken place in Dublin. Former tao(...)