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Mr Crowe said in his email, which has been seen by Independent.ie, that he “frustratingly” received a phone call from a journalist about the matter, saying they “had been ‘tipped off’ by an unidentified parliamentary party colleague that Willie O’Dea and I were in the same office for yesterday evening’s Zoom meeting and that we were both flaunting Covid public health guidelines by not wearing masks”. Mr Crowe said in the email to colleagues that this was not true, that he was lo...

Richard Boyd Barrett TD: After 300 Days, Pay The Debenhams Workers Micheál Martin TD is claiming the state has done right by them by paying €13 million in statutory redundancy Richard Boyd Barrett speaking to media during a People Before Profit briefing on the plinth of Leinster House, Dublin (Image: Gareth Chaney/Collins) Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we wi...

As Donald Trump finishes his presidency with one of the most shameful episodes in US history, rumours are rife he may take an Air Force 3 jet to the west of Ireland to hole up at his Doonbeg golf resort. A source close to the Trump administration says the New Yorker had been considering flying across the Atlantic on January 19 - the day before Joe Bidens inauguration. The toxic president famously called his private Palm Beach Club in Mar-a-Lago his winter White House but his nearest neighbours ...

"But you don’t hear too much about that in the media,” he said. “President Trump and his family will always be welcome here in Doonbeg – we won’t forget what he has done for this area. He has helped support the creation of vital local employment.” Igoe Inn owner Caroline Kennedy said the publicity from the US political visits to Doonbeg had clearly boosted the local tourism industry before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. “The resort (golf club) is the biggest employer in west Clare and...

This weekend we are paying a high price for two insecure politicians, each with a chip on both shoulders, the first about the other and the second about Tony Holohan. Today, as we face a far worse situation than last April, the nation wonders why we made all those sacrifices in the spring. The dynamic at the top of Government in 2020 does not bode well for 2021. It is no secret that Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar were never bosom buddies. Far from it. The FG/FF confidence and supply agreement...

aine.fitzgerald@limerickleader.ie Reaching for the stars: Blogger and content creator Louise Cooney pictured at home over Christmas. Find out what Louise learned from 2020 below );  ); As we begin 2021, we talk to prominent local people about the year of the lockdowns, 2020, and find out their hopes for the next 12 months as they bid to become the best versions of themselves. Louise Cooney - Fashion/lifestyle blogger and content creator What did you like most about the lockdowns of 2020? The ...

Brexit will inevitably increase the price of food and other basic household items, hitting people dependent on welfare the hardest, Fianna Fáils new finance spokesman Willie ODea has said.

Easy this politics business isn’t it really? Well, in fact it is anything but easy. And while Irish politics is many things, it is very rarely, if ever, neat. In fact the general election of February 8, 2020, turned Irish politics on its head. In the end we had three parties pretty much neck-and-neck. The old Irish ‘2.5 political party model’, with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, making one each, and Labour bringing up the rear as the 0.5, was definitively no more. Fine Gael’s campaign got off...

Willie O’Dea and Michael Healy-Rae have topped the list of TDs using taxpayers’ money to print calendars for constituents ahead of the new year with almost 60,000 ordered between them. Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan has used the Oireachtas printing service for 3,000 Christmas cards to spread festive cheer among his voters in Limerick city. His constituency rival, Fianna Fáil’s Mr O’Dea, had 39,000 calendars printed according to records released by the Oireachtas under Freedom of Infor...

Limericks Live 95 Search By Live95 News Team More than 70,000 Christmas cards and calendars have been printed by politicians using taxpayers money. The Irish Independent reports that Fianna Fails Willie ODea and Independent Michael Healy Rae used the Oireachtas service the most.  Deputy O’Dea, had 39,000 calendars printed. These were A5 sized and came at a cost of €531 to the taxpayer. Sinn Fein TD Maurice Quinlivan ordered 3,000 Christmas cards costin...