Pat Leahy @PatLeahyIT Twitter profile

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Pat Leahy

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2 years

House speaker Nancy Pelosi warns that if Irish border hardens because of Brexit there will be no US-UK trade agreement

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3 years

Lovely Christmas tradition here at Government Buildings where families come to watch the Taoiseach announcing a lockdown

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5 years

So am hearing that there has been very significant movement from British side on the customs issue in the Johnson-Varadkar talks. Not clear on detail and not clear what concessions expected in return. But if what I hear is correct, it changes the picture substantially

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2 years

Meanwhile, emerging views from Dublin about a successor. Officials and ministers are reluctant to say anything but one commonly held view is clear: anyone but Liz Truss

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5 years

Mentioning Mr Johnson’s promise that the UK will not put up any infrastructure on the Border, Mr Coveney added: “That’s the kind of conversation I would have with my six-year-old child, that ‘I won’t do it if you won’t do it’, despite the fact that the rules of trade require it.”

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2 years

This ad running in the Washington Post this morning

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10 months

The virgin rugby coverage is just a million miles better than RTE

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4 years

The Govt has cancelled the regular briefing with journalists by CMO Tony Holohan and the Taoiseach will not take questions from journalists after his televised address. Everyone knows these are difficult and pressurised times for political leaders, but this is not good.

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4 years

The first thing to go was the ban on midweek drinking

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Pat Leahy

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2 months

Actually when @NaomiOhReally tried to talk to Clare and Mick and ask them some questions they tried to have her removed from the European Parliament

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“I have no interest in talking to you lot,” Clare Daly told reporters after she was eliminated following count 17. Daly said the media had no interest in talking to her for five years. She received the most transfers from Bríd Smith (6,464) but finished on 39,334.

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6 years

Here we go: it's a landslide for Yes

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4 years

I have a suspicion that David Cullinane’s victory party wasn’t the only one at which the words “Up the RA” were heard. Just a hunch

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5 years

Slightly perplexed by all the sneering about this. Surely it is a laudable thing for an ex-Taoiseach to do? It's part of a peace process that ended a civil war

Bertie Ahern announces referendum result in Papua New Guinea

Bougainville in favour of independence in non-binding vote

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4 years

Politicians getting assaulted is what happens when people feel free to demonise their political opponents

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4 years

Thanks to all those offering opinions on the leaving cert by reference to how it would have suited them. It's most illuminating.

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5 years

Mood of summit: we are all truly very sorry to see the British leave. But would they ever get the f**k on with it

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2 years

Basically addressed this at the British ambassador

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6 years

"Do you really think Peter Casey will be a significant figure in our politics in six months? In six weeks? Like Dana is? Like Declan Ganley is? If there was a space for a right-wing, conservative, law and order, low taxes party, what happened to Renua?" Shortly on @IrishTimes

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2 years

I have some knowledge of the state of UK politics, and I thought it was a skit

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2 years

If you were watching this overseas, without much knowledge of the state of UK politics, you'd take some serious convincing that this is a real politician and not a comedy skit you don't understand.

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4 years

This is an extraordinary move by Nphet to land this on govt more or less without warning.

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5 years

Just listened back to Ryan Tubridy's comments about Greta Thunberg. It seemed to me his words were motivated primarily by concern for her, a 16 year-old in an extraordinary position, under presumably extraordinary pressures. Perhaps we shouldn't assume the worst motives of people

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5 years

Taoiseach does post Council presser-- “The EU is not a prison, nobody has to stay,” Mr Varadkar said. “But it’s also a home and we’re not going to kick anybody out either.” Report up shortly on @IrishTimes

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3 years

Sweet Jesus the quiet in the house

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6 years

Obviously, as the Brexiteers say, this can be negotiated in about 20 mins

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6 years

Here it is. The EU-Singapore free trade agreement.

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6 months

A minute's silence and tributes to Michael O'Regan in the Dail just now. He'd have been chuffed.

Michael O’Regan obituary: Astute political journalist and proud Kerryman to his core

He was sceptical but not cynical, and relentlessly fair, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the constituencies

www.irishtimes.com

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5 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg giving out about Charles Stuart Parnell in the House of Commons now

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3 years

This is one of the most serious political stories of the year for the Government. Very bad news for an administration struggling to convince public it is on top of vaccination

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Less than half of expected vaccines to be delivered in first quarter via @IrishTimes

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5 years

Varadkar: “It’s evident that the United Kingdom is in a very difficult position. They’ve got themselves into a bit of a fix. They don’t want to leave without a deal, they don’t want to vote for the deal at the moment and half of them don’t want to leave at all."

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3 years

I think this is the first time Micheal Martin has spoken in any detail about this

Micheál Martin: ‘You will always say you have the kids you lost’

Parenting in My Shoes: The Taoiseach on coping with the grief of two children dying

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4 years

I'm old enough to remember when Micheal Martin questioned the appointment of attorney general Maire Whelan as a judge - "The manner of the appointment of the former Attorney General to the Court of Appeal stinks"

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4 years

Finally, much Twitter traffic on the question of *that* funeral. This, from @SJAMcBride in the Newsletter, is pretty devastating

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6 years

@IrishTimes @IpsosMRBI exit poll: 68 per cent Yes, 32 per cent No

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3 years

Jeez, one Twitter account is enough of a pain in the arse

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5 years

Mrs May told leaders that she believes she can get Withdrawal Treaty passed, that negotiations with Labour are “going well” according to a person briefed on the early exchanges. This was not widely believed by EU leaders.

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4 years

The most serious immediate consequence of the affair is to undermine the government’s authority in dealing with Covid-19 at exactly the time it is needed most. In that regard, it would be difficult to think of a more irresponsible act on the part of those who attended.

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4 years

The cycling infrastructure in Dublin is appalling. It is not designed to facilitate cyclists. It must be designed for something else

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2 years

It’s basically the World Cup final for us political nerds

Pippa Crerar

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2 years

BREAKING: Boris Johnson has SACKED Michael Gove - just hours after he told the PM to go - @ChrisMasonBBC reports. #RevengeReshuffle

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6 years

Back from the printers. Night all

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5 years

Pretty clear now: UK says legal changes, Dublin says legal assurances

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4 years

You should hear them in Dublin

Mujtaba Rahman

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4 years

Senior EU official to me on Govt's manoeuvres on WA: “No one was expecting it. That’s part of the issue. We are meant to be friends. We have been living together for 47 years.”

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5 years

... The chief whip – the chief whip – abstained. How did these bozos ever run an empire? via @IrishTimes

Could you find worse politicians than those in the North? Well, actually, yes

Usually you have to be good at politics to be prime minister – then there’s Teresa May

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4 years

The hyperventilating about closed golf gatherings of the elite who run Irish society and so on this week was faintly ridiculous when you looked at the list of attendees. But it wasn’t a secret meeting of the political elite. It was a FG and FF old farts’ convention.

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2 years

Govt wins 85-66. That's a whopping margin tbh

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4 years

Taoiseach makes a reasonable joke about the under-reporting of Covid cases: "It's fair to say the Mater is being investigated."

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5 years

A read from inside the Council room – several leaders have spoken, vast majority in favour of a long extension, with some favouring December and some March of next year. Dutch PM Mark Rutte spoke first. Macron has not spoken yet.

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6 years

Kate O’Connell tells anti-abortion TDs in Dail “We won. We’ll get our way..Ye can talk for as long as ye like...Ye lost. It must be hurting”

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4 years

Thanks to everyone at Ipsos MRBI for brilliant work today. A helluva lot of data crunched in a short time

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5 years

About a million years ago, @daraobriain and I set up the @UCDObserver because we thought a newspaper which told students what was happening on campus was desperately required. (Of course, we also wanted another year knocking about UCD, but never mind that)

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6 months

Michael O’Regan, ‘generous, compassionate’ Irish Times journalist, dies at home in Dublin – The Irish Times

President leads tributes to ‘warm and engaging’ Irish Times journalist Michael O’Regan

‘He was incredibly courteous, and a perfect judge of when an injection of humour was needed’

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5 years

That's not a rejection by the DUP. Game on

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7 years

Letter of the day

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6 years

Can't understand this "UCD Dublin" thing. Does it not mean they are calling it University College Dublin Dublin?

Seán Dunne

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6 years

Starting year 2 @ucdpolitics this morning 🤓

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7 years

Has the entire Spanish government never read a history book?

Sky News

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Police are firing rubber bullets at voters during protests as the independence referendum gets under way #CatalonianReferendum

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5 years

Ireland will vote against Mercosur if Brazil fails to protect Amazon – Taoiseach via @IrishTimes

Ireland will vote against Mercosur deal if Brazil fails to protect Amazon – Taoiseach

Jair Bolsonaro criticised as rainforest wildfires continue to rage

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4 years

Anyway, as readers will know I don't use this platform much for personal observations, expecting that nobody is interested in my dinner, but I changed my commuting arrangements last week and cycled to work - here are some observations insofar as they relate to public policy:

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6 years

Oh wow

Michael Herrmann

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6 years

The Skelligs @skelligschoc this evening with a spell of magic for the Sunday evening. Enjoy the last night of September. @wildatlanticway @KerryClimbing @ClausSchuh

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2 years

Feeling *a lot* better about the state of my desk

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5 years

Suppose I'd better follow the hoor

Boris Johnson

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5 years

Thank you all for the incredible honour you have done me. The time for campaigning is over and the time for work begins to unite our country and party, deliver Brexit and defeat Corbyn. I will work flat out to repay your confidence

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4 years

Finally for now, casting a cursory glance at the Twitter machine, I can't make up my mind whether the media has betrayed the country by hounding Hogan out at time of great national peril, or is a collection of spineless establishment lackeys intent on supporting a rotten system.

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4 years

I wish official Ireland paid overtime

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4 years

And @harrymcgee send his last tweet of the day from the steps of the Merrion Hotel

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5 years

Most scenic press conference I’ve attended this week

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4 years

If anyone “won” the election, Sinn Féin did, coming first in the popular vote. But that is not our criterion for leading a government, nor is it in most parliamentary democracies. If it was, Fianna Fáil would never have been out of power between 1932-2011.

Pat Leahy: Sinn Féin does not have an exclusive claim to government

Party’s efforts to assemble a coalition of the left have been largely performative

www.irishtimes.com

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4 years

Most astonishing evening of news I’ve ever seen

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4 years

Good Lord. What fool could have negotiated this?

The Telegraph

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4 years

Tomorrow’s Telegraph front page: “Brexit deal never made sense, PM to tell EU” #TomorrowsPapersToday Read more:

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There are fruitflies who live longer than some government initiatives

Resistance at Cabinet sees plan to fine outdoor drinkers shelved

There was resistance from Greens and Fine Gael at Cabinet over the issue this morning

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1 month

I’ve watched back the US presidential debate and caught up with reaction. It feels like a moment in history. Dems will have to replace Biden and gamble on a new candidate. No other option now

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5 years

Coveney: If that is the final proposal, there will be no deal. There are a number of fundamental problems with the proposals.

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5 years

Favourite first paragraph of the day

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3 years

Large majority of voters favour a united Ireland, poll finds via @IrishTimes

Large majority of voters favour a united Ireland, poll finds

Strong opposition remains for any change to the national flag or anthem

www.irishtimes.com

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4 years

Janey, do people ever actually read an article before commenting on it?

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4 years

Off air for a few days

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5 years

My sense so far is that Mary Lou has had a difficult night - dished out a few punches that landed for sure, but has shipped some damage on a few subjects, Paul Quinn most notably.

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7 years

Congratulations @fiachkelly A whole array of new tasks await you

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7 years

The DUP will love that

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4 years

Here's my five reasons why a GNU is a bad idea - 1. Having everyone in government would mean decision-making was harder, not easier. One of the arguments is that it would mean the government could act quickly and decisively. That is the opposite of what would happen.

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7 years

Talks adjourned. Irish Times print deadlines in bits. No dinner eaten. Resume in the morning.

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5 years

Jeez what is Maria Bailey doing?

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4 years

Late night Cabinet meetings are rarely a sign of government harmony or equilibrium

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4 years

Best first par this week goes to ...

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3 years

If a couple getting married had proposed a similar arrangement, promising to put the bride’s family on one side and the groom’s on the other and to only open the partition a bit for the speeches, I wonder would the hotel have said: “Fire ahead.” I have my doubts.

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3 years

That was as tough an interview as I've seen Mary Lou endure @RTE_PrimeTime

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6 years

Wrote this a few weeks ago: Deep, deep in the heart of political unionism lies a great fear of something – something worse than the threatened advances of Dublin’s greenery, worse even than the infernal devices of popery: it is the fear of betrayal by London.

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5 years

Provisional wing of the Dalkey Tidy Towns committee

Irish Times Politics

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Dalkey Tidy Towns says it will ‘remove and destroy election posters via @IrishTimesPol

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2 years

Good morning. Irish Times poll: Support for Fine Gael at lowest level since 1994 as Sinn Féin hits record high

Irish Times poll: Support for Fine Gael at lowest level since 1994 as Sinn Féin hits record high

Support for Coalition slumps as the cost-of-living crisis squeezes voters

www.irishtimes.com

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5 years

And with that, it's au revoir to The @IrishTimes and to Twitter for a few weeks, as the Kingdom beckons. See y'all later.

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5 years

So it seems that a text is being prepared in Brussels -- indicating a political agreement. Everyone says could unravel and it will go late, but on balance the expectation that it is likely to be done

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4 years

"A person staying at the hotel with his family told the Irish Times he saw no evidence of social distancing when he witnessed the attendees arriving. “No masks. No distancing,” said the the witness who asked that his name not be used.

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3 years

The separation of the dinner into two rooms divided by a partition – accepted by the learned judge as making it two events – seems to me, and I think will seem to many people, to be a contrivance to get around the rules.

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Pat Leahy

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2 years

All this has been outstanding reporting by @NaomiOhReally

Naomi O'Leary

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2 years

Clare Daly has given an exclusive interview to China's state-owned broadcaster CCTV, in which she said Europeans don't have access to objective information and are "brainwashed" in their thinking about Ukraine, according to pickups in various Chinese media

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4 years

More people than ever before are reading The @IrishTimes

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@LeftistDad @OrlaGleans Between Collins and @PatLeahyIT the Irish Times has gone full Fine Gael - there's no point in expecting any kind of balanced political coverage whether of national or international issues. As a result, fewer and fewer people will read it and it will go to the wall.

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6 years

So the House of Commons is against no-deal but wants changes to the backstop. But has no idea what those changes might be. Great.

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3 years

Pretty much looks like a backbench revolt growing against Nphet recommendations. High stakes decisions facing coalition this afternoon

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6 years

I'm in Brussels so removed from it but if people think that Peter Casey's comments about Travellers will damage him with the voters, I suspect the opposite is true

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4 months

In Brussels for Simon Harris’s first EU summit. Poignant.

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5 years

Taoiseach speech is pretty sharp - says WA agreed in good faith, won’t agree to replace legal guarantee with promise

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2 years

Blair House, across the road from the White House, and site of the Taoiseach’s confinement

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4 years

Much commentary about this. Important to remember that challenging the legality of Government actions in court is a fundamental freedom in democratic societies - no matter who the challengers are