Tag: Eoin Ó Broin
7 months ago
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Hugh O’Connell: Fine Gael quick to take aim at mix of new and familiar in Sinn Féin ‘alternative ...

Before Sinn Féin had even launched its alternative budget yesterday afternoon, Fine Gael had already issued six press...

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7 months ago
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Housing set to be a ‘defining issue’ for next election, as Sinn Féin capitalises on Government fa...

In the run-up to the Sinn Féin think-in, Mary Lou McDonald made clear to her staff that she wanted the central focus ...

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10 months ago
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‘I’ll die happy if we have a united Ireland,’ says Rose Conway-Walsh, the Sinn Féin TD who pulled...

Rose Conway-Walsh sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and switches on the BBC World Service if she can’t ge...

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about 1 year ago
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Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien on Ireland’s most thankless task: ‘I don’t see anyone else who’d...

If self-confidence built homes, Darragh O’Brien would be the most successful housing minister in the history of the S...

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about 1 year ago
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As the eviction ban lifts, tenants aren’t the only ones who fear being shown the door

For some Fianna Fáil TDs, the idea of a winter eviction ban emerged from the parliamentary party think-in in Mullinga...

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about 1 year ago
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Green Party politicians trade blows in WhatsApp group over ‘snake behaviour’

Green politicians traded bitter blows over WhatsApp with accusations of “snake behaviour” after the party’s new direc...

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about 1 year ago
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‘Leak that!’ – Green Party politicians trade blows in WhatsApp group over ‘snake behaviour’

Green politicians traded bitter blows over WhatsApp with accusations of “snake behaviour” after the party’s new direc...

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about 1 year ago
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Did they or didn’t they? Politicians tight-lipped about illegal drug use amid cocaine allegations

Ecstasy and cannabis are among the drugs TDs have admitted to using in the past, but most politicians are remaining t...

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over 1 year ago
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Eoin Ó Broin, the man who plans to solve the housing crisis

Eoin Ó Broin is, according to current polling, the country’s preferred choice as housing minister — and the success o...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

Change is coming, says Mary Lou – but what does that really mean?

When the controversy over the Ireland women’s football team singing ‘Up the Ra’ erupted last month, Seán MacBrádaigh ...

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about 2 years ago
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Government’s pension admission leaves ‘generation rent’ tearing their hair out in a doom loop

About six weeks ago Eoin Ó Broin, the Sinn Féin housing spokesperson, visited the home of a couple who are both in th...

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over 2 years ago
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Is this a drive for electoral credibility or a push to find some real solutions?

Back in the middle of July, Peter Burke, a minister of state in the Department of Housing, made a forceful interventi...

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almost 3 years ago
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Abolishing local property tax would be a gift to the upper middle-class

Once upon a time the Taoiseach was opposed to the property tax. In September 2012 Micheál Martin told a Fianna Fáil t...

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