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Views from Dublin’s Grand Canal where extensive fencing erected in efforts to prevent asylum seeker encampments forming has left the famous beauty spot looking somewhat like a prison.
Gavin Pepper who was just elected in Finglas/Ballymun says Sinn Féin “sold out the working class to get a middle class vote”.
Dublin inner city council electee Malachy Steenson has vowed to “build the nationalist movement” going forward.
Simon Harris says he ‘absolutely expects’ voters will want him to work on issues related to immigration in wake of positive election results
Mary Lou McDonald has said that while immigration was “an issue” for voters, housing was “the issue” in the local and European elections.
Dublin area EU election candidate Niall Boylan says he is confident of being elected while remembering some of the highs and lows of his campaign.
Green Party leader and cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan tells Gript Media that the Green Party vote is holding up, with a majority of Green Councillors in Dublin set to hold their seats and the possibility of some gains nationwide.
Gript’s Dr. MATT TREACY, who has been tallying elections for far longer than he might like to admit, gives his very early impressions of the early trends in the Dublin Count Centre
Boxes being emptied as the count begins at RDS, Dublin
“Ideology is being driven into our schools”: European election candidate Eddie Punch says he has “huge concern” about a proposed Leaving Cert module that would teach students to engage in climate activism, adding that this is being driven by “a small, unrepresentative cabal”.
An NGO event in Cork City Hall this month heard that Gardaà should be “ashamed” of killing George Nkencho, and that his death was due to racism. Ben Scallan presses Justice Minister Helen McEntee on the fact that her Department funds the NGO behind the event.
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