Dessie Ellis

Dublin North-West: Dessie Ellis (SF)

Sinn Féin veteran is one of party’s longest-serving Dublin representatives

Sun Dec 01 2024 - 17:04

Dublin North-West constituency candidates list: Dessie Ellis vote may drop but it’s hard to see seat in danger

Election 2024: Rory Hearne of the Social Democrats hopes to hold Róisín Shortall seat as parachute candidate

Thu Nov 28 2024 - 09:16

A Broad Church: Lifting the lid on the Provisional IRA in the South

Gearóid Ó Faoleán makes a compelling case that public support was wider than often acknowledged

Tue Mar 28 2023 - 04:13

Miriam Lord’s Week: Hallucinatory scenes give way to realpolitik in the Dáil

Drug talk and a pirate appearance soon overtaken by Soc Dems co-leaders’ exit announcement

Sat Feb 25 2023 - 05:00

Cocaine now seen everywhere, ‘even in Dáil Éireann’, says Sinn Féin TD

Dublin North-West TD Dessie Ellis speaking as statements were being heard on the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use

Tue Feb 21 2023 - 18:57

Election 2020: Dessie Ellis (Sinn Féin)

Dublin North West – Elected first count

Mon Feb 10 2020 - 19:13

Dublin North-West results: Shortall wins for Soc Dems as Dessie Ellis tops poll

Shortall says party ‘will be speaking to everybody over the coming days’

Mon Feb 10 2020 - 17:15

Why are Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil refusing to go into coalition with Sinn Féin?

Explainer: Recent opinion polls show three parties are closely bunched together

Sun Jan 26 2020 - 14:46

Boris Johnson visit: Small protest takes place outside Leinster House

‘Ireland will not be collateral damage. We are not going to be dragged out of the EU’

Mon Sept 09 2019 - 11:57

Bruised Sinn Féin looks inward as it takes a dive in the May elections

Some believe SF must not only point to Government's failings but also to solutions

Mon Jul 01 2019 - 01:00

How will votes in the local elections influence next Dáil?

Parties will pore over results in the coming weeks to discern trends for the next general election

Fri May 31 2019 - 20:08

The life and crimes of Dessie O’Hare, Border Fox

‘Dessie O’Hare's reputation alone would be enough to terrify most people’

Thu Apr 11 2019 - 17:00

Calls for decriminalisation of personal drug use

By treating drug addiction as a health issue, crime would be reduced, say supporters

Wed Mar 27 2019 - 19:18

DUP leader attacks Sinn Féin reaction to John Downey arrest

Downey facing possible extradition to face charges in relation to the killings of two UDR soldiers in IRA bombing

Wed Nov 07 2018 - 22:07

Miriam Lord: Scrappy anniversary for Leo’s first year in office

No cakewalk for Taoiseach at Leaders’ Questions as TDs queue to burst his balloon

Wed Jun 13 2018 - 19:45

Tánaiste pledges ‘very extensive investigation’ of hotel fire

Coveney thanks emergency services, praises ‘professionalism that resulted in no loss of life’

Thu Mar 22 2018 - 15:18

Sinn Féin members told to stop airing their grievances in public

SF chair warns representatives they will face disciplinary action if they continue to do so

Sat Feb 10 2018 - 01:00

Alan Farrell did not abuse Dáil privilege, committee finds

Fine Gael TD cleared over naming of Sinn Féin TDs in relation to Brian Stack’s murder

Wed Mar 22 2017 - 20:20

Legal question over Farrell’s naming of Sinn Féin TDs in Stack query

FG TD asked Dessie Ellis and Martin Ferris for statements about killing of Brian Stack

Tue Mar 07 2017 - 20:04

Dublin council urged to explain €6.6m loan to building company

Authority gave interest-free loan to firm to fund Ballymun project and litigation

Sat Jan 14 2017 - 01:00

Murdered prison officer’s family urge questioning of Gerry Adams

Taoiseach and Tánaiste tell Brian Stack’s family nothing would hamper investigation

Fri Jan 13 2017 - 19:57

Decision on complaint against FG TD from two Sinn Féin TDs due in new year

Alan Farrell called on Dessie Ellis and Martin Ferris to make statement on Stack murder

Wed Dec 14 2016 - 16:57

Brian Stack: Committee to audit complaints over Alan Farrell

Fine Gael TD told Dáil two Sinn Féin TDs had details on 1983 murder of prison officer

Wed Dec 14 2016 - 01:00

TDs knew details of Gerry Adams’s email on Stack case

Several Deputies knew Sinn Féin TDs had been named in connection with IRA murder

Mon Dec 12 2016 - 08:10

Adams: I found out in 2013 that IRA killed Brian Stack

Sinn Féin leader under pressure of killing of prison officer in 1983

Sun Dec 11 2016 - 14:43

What is in dispute between Adams and the Stack family?

Sides agree the murder should never have happened, there was a meeting with an IRA man and there was a confidentiality agreement

Sat Dec 10 2016 - 01:00

Party rallies around Gerry Adams but controversies taking their toll

Sinn Féin knows legacy issues will continue to dog party

Fri Dec 09 2016 - 01:00

Son of Brian Stack confronts Gerry Adams over murder

Austin Stack says Sinn Féin leader has lied about his knowledge over his father’s death

Thu Dec 08 2016 - 14:20

Who was Brian Stack and why is his killing back in the news again?

Gerry Adams at odds with Stack family about names

Thu Dec 08 2016 - 09:11

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach who goes on . . . and on

Inside Politics: Irish Times poll shows Fine Gael leader’s rating at highest in four years

Thu Dec 08 2016 - 08:24

Five things you need to know today

‘Irish Times’ latest poll; Cork shooting of Real IRA man; SF TDs reject link to Stack murder

Thu Dec 08 2016 - 07:54

Two Sinn Féin TDs face suspension over hare coursing Bill

Jonathan O’Brien and Dessie Ellis understood to have been reprimanded by party whip

Thu Jul 07 2016 - 01:00

Hundreds march in Dublin to protest housing crisis

Demonstrators want the Government to declare a national housing emergency

Sat May 28 2016 - 18:24

Dublin North-West results: Fine Gael’s Noel Rock has been elected after ninth count

Labour TD John Lyons is eliminated on the eighth count

Sun Feb 28 2016 - 00:39