Event: Fianna Fáil general election

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Green Party push for directly elected mayors in major cities

Regional mayors in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, as well as in Dublin, should be directly elected and in place for the next round of elections in 2019, the Green Party says.

Wed, 23 Nov, 2016

Ahern launches outburst against media

Some journalists were hostile and totally unbalanced in their coverage of the early stages of the Fianna Fáil general election campaign, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern claimed today.

Sun, 20 May, 2007

Aid target failure a 'national disgrace'

THE Government's failure to meet its overseas aid target and the lack of any provision for promised extra gardaí in the Book of Estimates were criticised last night.

Fri, 19 Nov, 2004

1.5 million face hike in health insurance

UP to 1.5 million people face a further hike in private health insurance costs on foot of Government plans to increase the cost of a private hospital bed by 25%.

Fri, 19 Nov, 2004

Hypocritical gestures are typical of what we have come to accept

IT is a measure of Bertie Ahern’s capacity to exude hypocrisy that he actually stood up before about 190 of the world’s leaders at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg and lectured them about aid to the Third World.

Fri, 06 Sep, 2002