Counting to resume in Irish election as focus shifts to coalition permutations
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael looked well placed to return to power but Sinn Fein insists it could be part of a new government of ...
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Letters: Nostalgia for the past ignores dreadful treatment of women
Sometimes I look back with nostalgia on growing up in 1970s Ireland. It had two major benefits. First, there were no mobile phones, and, secondly, there were no concerns about global warming and the ...
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Obituary: Gemma Hussey, women’s rights champion and politician who fought for key social reforms
When Gemma Hussey, who has died aged of 86, was appointed education minister in Garret FitzGerald’s 1982 government she was Fine Gael’s first female ministerial appointment since the foundation of the ...