Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill weighs in on the Donegal Cancer Flights issue.
Side stepping the question, she says the bigger issue is why patients have to travel to Dublin in the first place.
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The government is pausing the controversial review into how Special Needs Assistants are allocated after major backlash.
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Dubbing it a “cheap dirty meal”, he called on the Government to pass responsibility for the programme to Meals on Wheels.
Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins is not happy with the quality of Hot School Meals.
“This is absolutely diabolical of the highest order.
“…And God, you'd want a very strong stomach, to be a very strong human being to put that in you,” he says.
On reports today that Councils tried to zone close to 300 sites prone to flooding for development over the last 6 years, SocDems climate spokesperson Jennifer Whitmore says: “we need to just stop doing stupid things when it comes to planning.”
TD Ruth Coppinger is calling on the FAI to boycott the upcoming fixtures against Israel.
“To say that there isn't a connection between sport and politics, is never the case in reality,” she says.
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"An outstanding bench warrant does not make the punishment he is receiving now justified in any way, shape or form," TD Duncan Smith said.
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"My experience of this entire process has completely and utterly brought me to my knees," former garda Margaret Loftus has said in relation to her experience of the justice system.
Last month, her ex-husband received a three-month suspended sentence for assaulting her in 2012.
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Hundred of patients died by suspected suicide shortly after being in contact with healthcare services in Ireland, @investigates.thejournal.ie can reveal.
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After years of being left in limbo, residents in North County Dublin who have watched their properties be slowly eaten by the sea have today received the welcome news that works will begin this week to save their homes.
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University College Dublin is coming under pressure to revoke an award it gave to renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, following fresh details of his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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"I'll put my hand in a bin to feed my child."
"What is the alternative, begging? That would be more degrading to me."
"We do this to keep ourselves going."
People who collect bottles and cans from bins and on the street in Dublin share their stories. jrnl.ie/6947770t
While journalists were invited to film President Connolly’s arrival at Stormont, along with a speech at Ulster University this afternoon, no other access to the President was permitted, and only limited information about her engagements was provided ahead of time.
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It’s not just keepie uppies President Connolly is skilled at apparently.
📍 Queens University where she joined the PeacePlayers basketball team on the court.
President Catherine Connolly is greeted at Stormont Castle by First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly.
It marks the beginning of her first official visit to Northern Ireland.
The Government plans to introduce regulations making it mandatory for users of e-bikes and e-scooters to wear helmets and high-visibility clothing.
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In Belfast today covering President Connolly's first official State visit to Northern Ireland
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Here's what you need to know after tonight's emergency meeting of EU leaders has wrapped up.
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Arriving at the emergency EU leaders summit in Brussels this evening, Taoiseach Micheál Martin welcomed Trump’s tariff climb down but said it has been a “challenging few weeks” in relation to “the Greenland situation”.
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The words on the lips of most of the political press officers The Journal spoke to about their parties use of X: “it is being kept under review”.
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“Most of the victims are thought to have been younger than 30…a female fashion designer of 23, three young footballers…a champion basketball player of 21, a fledgling movie director and a student…whose first protest was his last.”
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This week on The Candidate, we unpack the political response to Grok, the muddled messaging, and the question Ireland keeps avoiding: how do you regulate powerful tech firms when the State also relies on them?
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Minister of State for AI Niamh Smyth tells the Dáil she is meeting with representatives from X tomorrow.
Elon Musk just been labelled a 'creepy little slimeball' in the Dáil by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
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The Government has pushed out the introduction of planned new powers for the Agri-Food Regulator by a year.
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Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy has defended his party's attendance of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's inauguration in 2019.
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After arguing last week that X is not responsible for the child sexual abuse images being generated by Grok, Minister Patrick O Donovan claims his comments were taken out of context.
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