Claire Scott

Dublin

Political Correspondent at The Times Ireland

Political Correspondent with @ST__Ireland. Contact: [email protected]

Articles

Super *Star* Supporters of The Children’s Trust Aim to Raise Over £100,000 Running the TCS London Marathon

4 weeks ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Claire Scott

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowIt’s only 32 days until the world’s most popular marathon takes place on Sunday 27th April in London. The UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability, The Children’s Trust has 53 dedicated runners, including McFly drummer Harry Judd.
Social justice pedagogies: Multidisciplinary practices and approaches (2023)

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Claire Scott

In their contribution to the edited volume Social Justice Pedagogies, German instructors Kathryn Sederberg and Magda Tarnawska Senel write that: “Including tools for action is a critical difference between teaching culture in the language classroom and social justice education in the language classroom” (Sark, 2003, p. 174).
Row over Michael Lowry rumbles on in the Dail

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Claire Scott
Irish parties set out key issues with talks to step up

Dec 7, 2024 | thetimes.com | Claire Scott

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail negotiators have identified housing, justice and disability services as the key battlegrounds for government formation talks as discussions are set to intensify this week. Simon Harris, the taoiseach, has said that he is “not proud” of his government’s record on disability services and that he will require a guarantee on the delivery of “structural” change to this “siloed” system.
Bar-room talks stall over Dail’s balance of power

Dec 7, 2024 | thetimes.com | Claire Scott

On Thursday evening in a manor hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, the two men set to decide Ireland’s fate for the next five years met for a pint. Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, the respective leaders of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, had already spent the preceding days talking with their own parliamentary parties as well as independent TDs on how to form the next Dail majority, but had yet to meet face-to-face since the election bar a brief encounter in Government Buildings.
Neprilysin Inhibitors in Heart Failure: The Science, Mechanism of Action, Clinical Studies, and Unanswered Questions

Dec 5, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Biykem Bozkurt |Ajith Nair |Arunima Misra |Claire Scott

Keywordsneprilysin, neprilysin inhibitor, NEP inhibitor, angiotensin receptor–neprilysin inhibitor, ARNi, heart failure, sacubitril, sacubitril/valsartanAbstractThis article provides a contemporary review and a new perspective on the role of neprilysin inhibition in heart failure (HF) in the context of recent clinical trials and addresses potential mechanisms and unanswered questions in certain HF patient populations.
Micheál Martin and Simon Harris set for power

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Hugh O’Connell |Claire Scott |Julieanne Corr

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris are locked in a tight battle to become the next taoiseach in the new year as Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will begin talks to re-enter a coalition this week. With counting likely to continue for several days, the parties are vying for the final Dail seats but sources in both parties acknowledged last night that they will attempt to re-enter a coalition. “Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are going to form a government,” a senior source told The Sunday Times.
From Sinn Fein’s rise to far right’s slump, five key takeaways

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Hugh O’Connell |Claire Scott

Having left a number of seats on the table four years ago, Sinn Fein was anxious to ensure it made no such mistakes on this occasion. A 71-candidate strategy, which included a number of late additions, appears to have paid off in some areas. Mary Lou McDonald’s party is in the mix for two seats in Dublin South-Central and in Dublin North-West, though the leader will not bring in a running-mate in Dublin Central.
Independents instil fear in civil war foes

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Claire Scott

The 34th Dail looks set to elect more independent TDs than ever before, with the main parties likely to engage with quite a number of them in the coming weeks as the process of trying to put together a government gets under way. The true scale of the success of the independent vote won’t emerge until all transfers are allocated as they are a traditionally transfer-friendly cohort with many in contention for the final seats in constituencies.
Two-party politics are ‘consigned to dustbin’

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Claire Scott

The low November sun and calmer than usual Dublin city traffic formed a stark contrast to the chaos and excitement brewing inside the RDS Simmons court from Saturday morning. The large hall was divided up into grids of the five Dublin constituencies being counted and felt more like a cattle mart than a count centre, with metal barriers dividing the hectic tallying and little natural light breaking through the ceiling.