Joe Mag Raollaigh
Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Correspondent at RTÉ
Politics Coverage Editor, RTÉ News
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1 week ago |
rte.ie | Joe Mag Raollaigh
People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has introduced a bill in the Dáil to ban fox hunting in Ireland, aiming to amend the Animal and Health Welfare Act. She said Ireland is an outlier now as fox hunting is banned in England, Scotland and Wales. Ms Coppinger said fox hunting is one of Ireland's most inhumane activities, despite a code of conduct introduced by the minister in 1998.
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2 weeks ago |
rte.ie | Joe Mag Raollaigh
Fourteen-year-old disability rights campaigner Cara Darmody has been invited to meet Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Leinster House this morning. The meeting was due to take place at 9am. Cara was accompanied by her father into the Department of the Taoiseach at Government Buildings. She spent the night in a tent outside Leinster House as part of a 50-hour protest, calling for urgent action on growing waiting lists for child disability assessments.
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2 weeks ago |
rte.ie | Joe Mag Raollaigh
The Social Democrats have introduced a bill in the Dáil calling for a referendum to reduce the voting age to 16 years. The bill was proposed by Deputy Aidan Farrelly, who was proposing his first piece of legislation in the Dáil. He told the house that reducing the voting age to 16 is an "issue of fairness not competence, of equality not maturity".
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2 weeks ago |
rte.ie | Joe Mag Raollaigh
A body representing local authority managers will tell the Oireachtas Housing Committee today of the impediments that need addressing so councils can build more housing units. The City and County Managers Association will outline the need for investment funding, coordinated servicing of land by state bodies and increased staffing.
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3 weeks ago |
rte.ie | Joe Mag Raollaigh
At the opening of today's Dáil session Leas-Cheann Comhairle John McGuinness called on members to remain standing for a minute's silence in memory of Garda Kevin Flatley. Gda Flatley, a 49-year-old married father-of-two, was killed after he was struck by a motorcycle while carrying out a checkpoint in the Lanestown area of north county Dublin. Taoiseach Mícheál Martin expressed his "deepest sympathies" to the family, friends and colleagues of Gda Flatley.
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