Carol Nolan

Offaly: Carol Nolan (Ind)

Candidate took Dáil seat in 2016 for Sinn Féin, but was suspended from party in 2018 when she voted against repeal of Eighth Amendment

‘It feels like we’re being bullied’ - farmer on rewetting peatland ahead of next EU vote

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

Fuel tax reduction costs exchequer more than €1bn

State forced to reduce fuel tax last year due to rising prices caused by war in Ukraine but will reverse cuts in June

Return to ‘normal’ rate of refugees may take years, McGrath says

Deputy Bríd Smith claims some TDs are feeding into a ‘racist, ugly narrative’ about refugees

Minister ‘finger wagging’ over Dáil question on services for refugees, McGrath says

Independent TD accuses Darragh O’Brien of being ‘condescending’ and attempting to ‘demonise’ Carol Nolan

Central Bank doubles gold reserves holdings in 12 months

Financial regulator increased store of gold reserves to 12 metric tonnes

Carbon budgets to help halve emissions passed in Dáil without a vote

Emissions ceilings to be decided for economic sectors once budgets come into effect

Dáil suspended after row breaks out during cost of living debate

Rural Independent TDs put forward motion calling for ‘urgent mini-budget’

Stephen Donnelly may be having his own Zappone moment

Appointment of chair of abortion legislation review receives almost no scrutiny

Women TDs call on men to ‘take stand’ against gender-based violence

Politicians express horror at killing of Offaly teacher Ashling Murphy

Dáil rejects abortion Bill from Rural Independent TDs

Issues such as foetal pain relief can be raised within review, Minister for Health says

Breda O’Brien: Cooling-off period for everything but abortion

Vital decisions need time yet many want to remove any delay impeding abortion

Spike in domestic violence reports in direct provision centres

Increase in reports of domestic violence and harassment of asylum-seekers

Tax move decried as ‘shameful to legacy of our 1916 leaders’ by Independent TD

Move on corporate tax ‘appeased our EU masters’, and is ‘just the beginning’, says Nolan

Rural TDs criticise legislation on indoor dining as discriminatory

Independents warn Government that new hospitality regime will face legal challenge

Breda O'Brien: Media not doing its job properly when covering abortion

BAI upheld some complaints about radio coverage but there is a systemic problem

Climate Action Bill adopted in the Dáil by majority of 129 votes to 10

All political parties backed legislation, as 10 independents oppose

Minister defends ‘just transition’ measures in Climate Bill

More than 30 Opposition amendments to landmark legislation fall or rejected

Breda O’Brien: Foetus’s pain should be a focus for both sides of abortion debate

People of goodwill must agree to relieving foetal pain with anaesthesia

Bill proposes pain relief for foetus during late-term abortions

Carol Nolan introduces Bill which was co-sponsored by 10 other TDs in Dáil

Rural Independent TDs attack Government’s Climate Action Bill

Healy-Rae blames pollution in Asia for harming environment, not person ‘with a turf fire’

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