Search Results for 'Albert Reynolds'
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Dukie: the Game of Life by Seamus Duke
Book Review by Mary O’Rourke
Dáil Éireann returns to familiar surroundings as Budget 2022 awaits October unveiling
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Leaving Cert results relief for local students as Westmeath ladies perform heroics in Croke Park
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City Hall officials need to work more closely with councillors
Insider has been a keen observer of activities in City Hall for two decades and, regardless of what the public think, it is always best for Galway when there is a good working relationship between the elected members and senior management.
Feasible solution found for South Galway flooding
It has been a long journey through many difficult times for the communities of South Galway and North Clare as the severity and frequency of flooding has led to an increased yearly threat of flooding in the past 4 decades.
Light rail, not more roads, is the only real solution to Galway's gridlock
Hands up those who can remember getting their first home phone installed? Insider had to wait six months after application before Albert Reynolds, Minister for Communications, waved his hand in 1980, and as if by magic, I got a wired in house phone, then being manufactured by our own Northern Telecom in Mervue.
The challenge of Covid-19 demands a new Government is formed
These past few weeks have been a surreal experience for the people of this country. At times it almost feels like the stuff of fiction with, at one stage, Taoiseach Leo Varadkaar’s return to medical duties drawing comparisons with President Whitmore in that 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.
The hijacker, the Third Secret of Fatima, and a right Holy Show
IN THE history of aeroplane hijackings – a common occurrence during the 1970s and early 1980s – few are as bizarre and as eccentric as the hijacking of Aer Lingus Flight 164.
Athlone nationally recognised for its cleanliness standards as sad news of former colleagues emanates
We are truly fully back when the old problems continue to assert themselves. Brexit has assumed a central role again on the political stage, with the usual chaos and parliamentary pantomime evident at Westminster. And yet no one has come up with an alternative to Theresa May’s Brexit plan. There will be a vote next week in the UK parliament, and as the Prime Minister herself has said, who knows what will happen next? It’s really unsettling all round and very difficult for government departments, agencies and so on to make any plans as they are facing into the unknown.
Matters Longford to the fore as centenary celebrations acknowledge the right of women to vote
Well, Longford has really emerged with a bang in this pre-Christmas season. We had two notable events in Longford over last weekend.
