Investigations ongoing.
“Organised criminal activity.”
Formal identification process ongoing.
Eh? Eh? I bet you didn’t know that, now did you?
“There was a lot of opportunism.”
Sinn Féin’s #GE24 manifesto calls the Irish hate speech bill “a form of censorship” and says they voted against it. Ben Scallan puts it to Mary Lou McDonald that her party voted for it unanimously and tried to expand it to make illegal immigrants a protected class in Irish law.
Despite the stabbing of young children at Parnell Square and in Southport in the UK, Gardaí say they don’t think such incidents will be repeated. They add that it’s “fair to say” that most people involved in the 2023 Dublin Riots were simply “opportunistic” looters and vandals.
#GE24 Ben Scallan asked Fine Gael Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe if an Irish “Department of Government Efficiency” would be worth considering. Donohoe shot down the idea: “Our State, overall, does serve our country well…[it] does much of its work efficiently.”
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says she wants an “efficient” immigration system “that means that those who need protection in our country are integrated”. #GE24
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says it is “disappointing” that some political parties didn’t publish a manifesto before the general election debate, meaning their policies couldn’t be as scrutinised. #GE24
Mary Lou McDonald criticised Fine Gael for running Senator John McGahon as a candidate. Taoiseach Simon Harris’ response: “Her press officer is in prison tonight for being a pedophile.” #GE24
Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman admits that he has put in planning objections previously, but defends this on the basis that “Not every planning application is a good planning application.” #GE24