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Éamon Ó Cuív (left) and Michael Martin

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This morning.

Éamon Ó Cuív, you know who’s grandson, and Fianna Fáil leader Michael Martin at the launch of the party’s  Programme of Events to mark the Centenary of 1916 Easter Rising at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.

Via Fianna Fáil:

The creation of Fianna Fáil, as a national movement, was inspired by the Leaders of the Rising and founded on the ideals of the Proclamation. Many of the founding members of our Party played a central role in the fighting of Easter Week; Eamon de Valera being the last commander of the Irish Volunteers to cease fire in Boland’s Mills.

In order to honour those who fought in the Rising and to celebrate this event’s monumental impact on the Irish Nation, the Party has established a Commemoration Committee/Coiste 1916 chaired by Éamon Ó Cuív TD to plan how best to commemorate the centenary. This Committee would like to invite you to submit your ideas as to how best the Party should commemorate the 1916 Rising in 2015 and 2016.

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1916 Centenary Celebrations (FiannaFail)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

90367977Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney

“I think there’s a lot of good people in Fianna Fail, I think I could work with them.People who support Fianna Fail in some ways probably have a lot in common with people who support Fine Gael.”

Fine Gael minister Simon Coveney

“I think there are fundamental differences between Fianna Fail and Fine Gail.The concentration by Fine Gael is on the better off in society, reducing taxation for the better off at the expense for the less well off in society.”

Fianna Fail TD Timmy Dooley this morning

Simon Coveney supports idea of coalition with Fianna Fáil (Juno McEnroe, Irish Examiner)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

 

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Irish Examiner reports:

A former Fianna Fáil City Councillor in Cork is due in court shortly, charged with fraud offences. It is understood the man was arrested in the city earlier this morning.

Former FF City Councillor facing fraud charges (Irish Examiner)

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Former Fianna Fail Minister for Agriculture Ned O’Keeffe

Who?

1) Wanted “Babe” banned in case it put people off their Christmas ham
2) Criticised the Cowen government because it was “too full of intellectuals”
3) Told a Rathcormac school to stick their funding requests up their hole because they hadn’t voted for him, adding that they had a “fabulous” layout of Portakabins
4) Praised former CBI regulator Patrick Neary as “a decent and honourable man”
5) Submitted five false invoices to support claims for mobile phone expenses totaling €3,737.50.

Ned O’Keeffe given suspended jail term for false invoices (Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Micheál Martin

Melanie writes:

Leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin TD, will join Brendan O’Connor on [RTÉ 1’s ]The Saturday Night Show [at 9.55pm] this week to talk about his life, family and why rebuilding Fianna Fáil matters so much to him.

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(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Last night.

Delegates at Ógra Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference with party leader Michael Martin at the Westgrove Hotel, Clane, Co. Kildare, urging citizens to register to vote ahead of the marriage equality referendum.

You can”t win anything with kids.

How Do I Register To Vote?

Related: Rainbow Coalition

Pic: Conor McCabe

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“I have received correspondence from Ervia, the parent company for Irish Water and Bord Gáis Networks, which reveals that 545 staff shared €3.7m in bonuses in 2013 but there has been a massive jump in bonuses paid out this year.So far in 2014 Ervia has paid €5.1m in bonuses to 940 staff. Are we really expected to believe that this does not include any bonuses being paid to staff at Irish Water? The Taoiseach told the Dáil on October 7th that “no bonuses have been paid to anyone in Irish Water”. Does he stand over that statement today?”

Sean Fleming, Fianna Fail TD

Has Taoiseach Misled The Dail (Fianna Fail)

Previously: “I’m Not Telling Porkies’

Contains Impurities: The Irish Water Timeline

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And he’s not going to take this anymore.

Seagull loathing Senator Ned O’Sullivan (FF) raised the issue of anonymous online commenters and their criticism of politicians in the Seanad this morning.

He singled out list-loving, palatially housed online news Godzilla The Journal saying its comments section often verged on the “abusive”. He then called for a civilised debate to be held on the matter.

*pause*

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Previously: Mean Gulls

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