FG needs to connect more tightly with its natural voting contingency, sharpen its messaging and get back to its identity basics of law and order, the economy and enterprise
Holly Cairns
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Independent TD Catherine Connolly says compensation based on business and cost and ‘absolutely nothing to do with justice or what is right’
A dozen Irish acts, including Kneecap, Soda Blonde and NewDad, will not perform due to festival’s links with US military
Opposition parties are promising rapid progress, but the housing market is a long game
Party leader says she will ‘talk to every party’ about a potential coalition after the next election but preferably, she says, without Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil
Recent polls are promising but the party has big decisions to make on three key questions
National conference will hear from the Palestinian ambassador, but Israeli ambassador has not been invited
Are social democratic values best served by two competing parties whose policies are virtually identical?
Social Democrats leader wants to be part of the next government. First, her party must capitalise on its momentum
Taoiseach referred to Mary Lou McDonald’s High Court proceedings for alleged defamation
Justice Minister’s remarks come after spate of attacks on buildings earmarked for asylum seeker accommodation and some wrongly rumoured to be destined for use as refugee housing.
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