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Plain packaging won’t damage recovery - Noone

Fine Gael Senator for Dublin Catherine Noone, has today hit out at claims by German politicians and lobby groups that the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes would somehow damage the Irish economic recovery.

2nd August 2014

Plain Packaging legislation will not go up in smoke – Burke

Fine Gael Cork North Central Senator, Colm Burke, has today (Tuesday) stated that the Government is determined to proceed with the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. He was speaking after it emerged that German politicians and lobby groups had been exerting pressure on the Irish Government to deter them from introducing plain packaging on cigarettes, as they feared it would damage the Irish economic recovery in some way.

2nd August 2014

Minister Frances Fitzgerald publishes investigation report by Judge Michael Reilly

Frances Fitzgerald T.D, Minister for Justice and Equality, has today published the report submitted to her by Judge Michael Reilly of his investigation into the handling of warrants in the case of Celyn Eadon.

2nd August 2014

Minister Flanagan statement on the case of Ibrahim Halawa

Minister Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, TD, has expressed his concern over the case of Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish citizen who has been detained in Egypt since August 2013.

2nd August 2014

Irish Rail strike will discommode thousands of GAA fans and damage business – O’Mahony

Fine Gael TD for Mayo and Chairperson of the Oireachtas Transport and Communications Committee, John O’Mahony has, today (Tuesday), appealed to Irish Rail employees

2nd August 2014

FF's IMF call a strange case of déjà vu - Harris

Minister of State at the Department of Finance and Fine Gael TD for Wicklow-East Carlow, Simon Harris, today (Tuesday) welcomed Michael McGrath's new found support for Finance Minister Michael Noonan's efforts to continue to reduce the debt burden on the Irish people.

2nd August 2014

‘Your Country Needs You - Patriotism in the 21st Century’ Speech by Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, at the Parnell Summer School 2014

Your Country Needs You. Apparently spoken by Lord Kitchener at the outbreak of World War I and immortalised in an army recruitment poster designed to ignite patriotism in his fellow Britons as it went to war in continental Europe.

1st August 2014

Two state solution the only answer for Middle East - Coghlan

Fine Gael Kerry Senator and Government Chief Whip in the Seanad, Paul Coghlan, has stressed that a two state solution is the only answer to the Israeli Palestinian crisis. Senator Coghlan was speaking after the Seanad was reconvened yesterday to discuss the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.

1st August 2014

New Credit Union to service the Beara Peninsula to open today - Harrington

Fine Gael TD for Cork South West, Noel Harrington today (Friday) welcomed the decision taken by the Board of Bantry Credit Union at their meeting last night, to provide Credit Union services for the people of the Beara Peninsula.

1st August 2014

Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan T.D. welcomes return to profitability by Bank of Ireland in the first half of 2014

The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan T.D. today (1 August 2014) welcomes the return to profitability by Bank of Ireland in the first half of 2014. Commenting on the Bank of Ireland – 2014 Half Year Results

1st August 2014