Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Ireland

Journalist and Writer at RTÉ

Pol staff @RTENews 📺 📻 🖊 Ex:@RTEnewsatone @morningireland @irishexaminer polcorr. @BostonCollege #EmergingVoices 2010. Make one person smile 😊 every day.

Featured in: Favicon

rte.ie

irishexaminer.com Favicon

breakingnews.ie

Articles

Committee chair wants OTB passed by 'summer recess'

6 days ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

The chair of the Oireachtas committee which will examine the Government version of the Occupied Territories Bill has said he wants to see it passed into law "by the summer recess". Fianna Fáil TD John Lahart also said he wants to see services from what the bill describes as the occupied territories included, but said both issues are dependent on the views of all committee members and whether they receive the necessary information in time.
Frances Black 98% sure she will not run for presidency

6 days ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Independent senator Frances Black has said she is "98%" sure she will not contest the presidential election - but remains 2% open to the possibility as she has "a responsibility to consider it". Senator Black outlined her view in a radio interview today, saying her concerns relate in part to the personalised nature of "how other [presidential] campaigns have been run".
Taoiseach defends Govt action over situation in Gaza

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has defended Government's actions over the situation in Gaza and has told protesters who say Ireland has not gone far enough, to "go and ask the Palestinian Authority, ask the Palestinian people". Speaking to reporters at an event in Galway this afternoon, during which a pro-Palestine protest took place outside, the Taoiseach was asked for his response to their calls for Ireland to do more.
41,000 new homes this year 'very difficult'

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Minister for Housing James Browne has admitted a pre-general election Government promise to build 41,000 new homes this year is now "very, very difficult" and will be "an extreme climb to reach". For the second time in a week, the Minister conceded the high-profile commitment is now unlikely to happen, a situation which is likely to be further criticised by opposition parties.
41,000 new homes this year 'very difficult'

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Minister for Housing James Browne has admitted a pre-general election Government promise to build 41,000 new homes this year is now "very, very difficult" and will be "an extreme climb to reach". For the second time in a week, the Minister conceded the high-profile commitment is now unlikely to happen, a situation which is likely to be further criticised by opposition parties.
Harris accuses Israel of genocide in Dáil clash over Gaza

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has insisted Government is doing all it can to help ordinary people in Palestine - describing what is happening as "the genocidal activity of the Netanyahu government" and that there is "an act of evil going on". Mr Harris was speaking during a heated Dáil exchange in which Independent TD Catherine Connolly said in her view Israel has become "a rogue state" and that the coalition is "standing over a narrative that is utterly false".
Commission wants postal vote medical cert fees waived

1 week ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Ireland's electoral watchdog, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, has called on the Department of Housing and Local Government to waive all fees associated with medical certs for postal votes in time for autumn's presidential election. The recommendation has been made as part of a number of requests from An Coimisiún in a new Post Electoral Event Report on last year's general election.
Slow steps taken by Govt amid call for action over Gaza

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Political progress is sometimes described as being about inches not miles, a phrase meant to explain how change often happens slowly and incrementally rather than with sudden leaps forward. But when the discussion is about the situation in Gaza, for many that explanation is no longer tenable, with those leaps forward now being urged by a growing number of people who feel the devastated enclave cannot continue to wait.
Govt spending, immigration to dominate Aontú ard fheis

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Government spending, immigration, housing and crime are likely to dominate proceedings at Aontú's ard fheis tomorrow. The party, which now holds two Dáil seats, one seat in the Seanad and eight more in local authorities, is expecting as many as 400 people to attend the event at the City North Hotel in party leader Peadar Tóibín's Meath West constituency.
'Inquiries' over US deportees flight Shannon stopover

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

The Taoiseach has said that the Department of Transport is continuing to make "inquiries" in relation to a US plane carrying deportees which reportedly stopped at Shannon Airport this week. It was reported in the New York Times that an aircraft with a number of people on board landed at the Co Clare airport on Tuesday night. The newspaper said the flight landed in Shannon at around 9.39pm for around two hours, before continuing its journey to the African nation of Djibouti.