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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Hugh O'Connell

Too big to fail: So what now for the civil servant they call ‘Minister Robert Watt’?

It is possible that had Robert Watt taken a different path in life, he might have found himself on the other side of ...

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about 1 year ago
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Hugh O'Connell

Ivana Bacik pledges to deliver one million homes over next decade during Labour Party conference ...

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has set out her ambition to deliver one million homes in the next decade as she slammed the...

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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Hugh O'Connell

Ivana Bacik: ‘We will have no choice but to put down a motion of no confidence in the Government’

A political poison-pen-letter about the role and influence of Dermot Ryan, an adviser to Ivana Bacik, has sparked muc...

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about 1 year ago
independent.ie

Hugh O'Connell

Gary Gannon expected to give Holly Cairns his backing to run for Social Democrats leadership afte...

Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon is set to throw his support behind Holly Cairns for the leadership of the party after...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride

Labour shadow secretary of state ‘misled US Embassy over British policy’, declassified papers show

Labour’s shadow secretary of state grossly misrepresented British government policy on Northern Ireland to the US Emb...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride

Keir Starmer’s competent monotony could halt Border poll progress

For two-and-a-half years, Keir Starmer has been leader of the British Labour Party; for two-and-a-half weeks it has b...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Labour’s shadow NI Secretary Peter Kyle would set out criteria for border poll and gives support ...

Northern Ireland’s shadow Secretary of State has confirmed he would set out “in detail” the criteria for a border pol...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Labour’s shadow NI Secretary Peter Kyle 'would call border poll if circumstances right' and gives...

Northern Ireland’s shadow Secretary of State has confirmed he would set out “in detail” the criteria for a border pol...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Doug Beattie: Labour’s shadow NI Secretary’s comments around border poll ‘unhelpful and ill-timed’

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has said comments by Northern Ireland’s shadow Secretary of State that he w...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Border poll comments by Labour’s shadow NI Secretary ‘unhelpful and ill-timed’, says UUP leader

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has said comments by Northern Ireland’s shadow Secretary of State that he w...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Labour’s Peter Kyle defends party app wording after he is named Shadow Secretary of State for ‘No...

The shadow Northern Ireland Secretary has defended his party after the term "north of Ireland" was used on Labour's c...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride

Sam McBride: Post-Brexit contradictions and uncertainty surround both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

On a sunny May day six weeks before the EU Referendum in 2016, Liz Truss arrived at the Balmoral Show to campaign aga...

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almost 2 years ago
independent.ie

Hugh O'Connell

Is it the seven-year itch for the Social Democrats?

Isabelle Flanagan was in the middle of her Leaving Cert year when she joined the Social Democrats at the end of 2020....

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about 2 years ago
independent.ie

Hugh O'Connell

Alan Kelly's short reign as Labour leader ended by some of those who were his strongest supporters

Alan Kelly’s term as Labour leader was brutally ended by some of those who had, until quite recently, been his strong...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Shadow NI Secretary Peter Kyle says ‘no serious prospect’ of united Ireland poll

There is “no serious prospect” or suggestion of a border poll being called imminently, the new Shadow Secretary of St...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Christopher Leebody

Peter Kyle profile: NI’s new Shadow Secretary replacing Louise Haigh an advocate for dyslexia and...

Northern Ireland is set to welcome a new political face in the coming days, with Labour’s Peter Kyle the new Shadow S...

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