Jack Horgan-Jones
Political Correspondent at Irish Times
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1 day ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Horgan-Jones
Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald will not seek the Fine Gael nomination for this year’s presidential election. Ms Fitzgerald served as an MEP until last year’s European elections and held cabinet positions as minister for justice, minister for children and minister for enterprise during an Oireachtas career that took in two periods as a TD and a spell in the Seanad.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Horgan-Jones
Flags will be flown at half-mast over public buildings on Saturday to mark the funeral of Pope Francis, the Government has confirmed. With preparations under way in the Vatican for the first funeral of a serving pontiff for 20 years, Ireland is to be represented at the event by President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins, as well as both Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Horgan-Jones
Sinn Féin is to take the chair’s position on seven Oireachtas committees, including the justice and defence panels, with Government parties taking the positions on the committees on housing and infrastructure. The allocation of committee chair positions to different political parties and Dáil groupings was agreed at a behind-closed-doors meeting on Thursday morning.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Horgan-Jones
Good morning,Well, he blinked. In the end, crushing pressure on US treasury bonds drove Donald Trump to introduce a 90 day pause on plans to introduce tariffs on trading partners - including the EU, and therefore Ireland. The tariffs on these goods will now stand at 10 per cent, his chosen “baseline”, rather than the 20 per cent previously advertised.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jack Horgan-Jones
The Department of Public Expenditure has raised concerns over the impact of new short-term letting rules on rural communities. The new rules, which envisage an effective prohibition of planning permissions for Airbnb-style lettings in towns of 10,000 people or more as well as the creation of a register for the properties, were due to go to Cabinet this week.
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