As a TV company, RTÉ is blessed with in-house expertise to call upon when management decides to shoot an advertising campaign, because these things can be horrendously expensive. So naturally, when the Morkeshing and Commorcial hotshots in Montrose decided to film a slick new promo for RTÉ News, they hired in an outside company to … Read more
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has told TDs she bears “no ill will and my door is always open” after she won a Dáil vote of confidence by 96 to 71 with two abstentions. In a short statement at the end of the debate, she said: “I will continue to uphold my solemn declaration to vindicate … Read more
Jack Horgan-Jones – 1 minute ago Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy made a short statement to the House at the end of the debate. She thanked everyone for participating including those who opposed her. “It is regrettable that the matter of speaking rights was unable to be resolved by consensus, despite 20 hours of full and … Read more
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Sinn Féin and the rest of the Opposition should not get a “veto” on how the Dáil is run. Speaking in Paris on Thursday, the Fianna Fáil leader said he was “genuinely taken back” by the behaviour of the Opposition during heated exchanges across the Dáil floor earlier this week. … Read more
Michael Lowry’s day of beckoning dawned on Tuesday. He got what he wanted from the Taoiseach and that’s all that matters. He palmed it into his back pocket with astonishing ingratitude, smirkingly disregarding the fact that his audacious demand was causing untold bother for the Government and leader he has publicly sworn to support. Shameless … Read more
It comes just days after his re-election to the Seanad. In a statement this morning, Mr Conway said he was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday 22 January “for being in an intoxicated state due to consumption of sleeping tablets and alcohol” on O’Connell Street. “I was detained at Store Street Garda Station and … Read more
Verona Murphy Diplomacy hasn’t always been top of Verona Murphy’s agenda, but now she finds herself as the referee in the rowdiest game in Ireland –Dáil Éireann. The Wexford woman may have had a rocky start as Ceann Comhairle, yet her backstory suggests she is a woman who will have no trouble fighting her corner. … Read more
A joint submission from all the Opposition parties and Independent TDs has argued there is no precedent for the decision by Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy to recognise an “opposition” technical group which includes four members who support the new Government. The move by the four Independent TDs has sparked a backlash from Opposition parties, who … Read more
Independent Wexford TD Verona Murphy has made Dáil history as the first woman Ceann Comhairle, elected on the third count against three other contenders, Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh, outgoing Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl and John McGuinness, both of Fianna Fáil. Ms Murphy pledged to be a reforming chair of the Dáil and to … Read more