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All three of Fine Gael’s female politicians on Dublin City Council are stepping down at next summer’s local elections, the Herald has learned. Councillors Clare Byrne, Edie Wynne and Mary O’Shea say the workload has lumped too much pressure on their family lives and careers. The women, who are all mothers, have decided to leave the council in what is a significant blow to party headquarters.

 

Anyone For The Last Of The Gender Quotas?


FG’s women trio quit council over family pressures (Niall O’Connor, The Herald)

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HealyRae

A television clip showing a Dáil deputy writing notes while driving has been passed on to the gardaí, the Road Safety Authority has confirmed. A number of people contacted the RSA after seeing Michael Healy-Rae answering a call on his hands-free phone and writing on a notebook resting on the steering wheel.

Who grassed?

Elmo, Ya Rat!

Healy-Rae reported for writing notes while driving (Donal Hickey, Irish Examiner)

Previously: Looking After No.1

7/6/2007. New High Court Judges(Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan)

A man who raped his victim for five hours after breaking into her house armed with a hatchet has been jailed for seven years at the Central Criminal Court. The Cork man forced his way into the home of his ex-girlfriend and threatened to kill her by driving them both into the sea. He also cut her off her hair with a scissors because she was not performing sexual acts to his liking.

At a sentencing hearing, Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan was told the case is deemed by the DPP to “be at the higher end of the scale”. Blaise O’Carroll, defending, said his client wants to apologise to the victim but is too shy to do it himself. Counsel said the man was “very much in love” with the woman and they had great times together. He said he was “absolutely shattered and destroyed when the relationship ended”.

Hatchet-wielding rapist jailed for seven years (Conor Gallagher, Irish Examiner)

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