“Her opinion here doesn’t matter”: Mattie McGrath TD has said that Minister Catherine Martin’s refusal to retract her false “women in the home” claim, and her “bullish” insistence that she knows better than the Electoral Commission, represents a “subversion of democracy.”
Mattie McGrath: “The thought that [asylum seekers] all get automatic medical cards is just a pure joke. It sticks in the craw of…all the other countless patients that are striving and begging to get a medical card, and they can’t.”
“They’re not Independent TDs, they’re Fine Gael lite”: Mattie McGrath has slammed Independent deputies who shot down a Dáil debate on the EU nature restoration law this week, complaining that “they keep voting with Fine Gael all the time.”
“A sad day for rural Ireland.”
Tánaiste disputes claims
‘People of Roscrea need fair play and respect’
Concerned by government’s potential ‘manipulation’ of inquiry
Is it easier, in the round, to imagine Ireland becoming more like China as a result of this treaty, or China becoming more like Ireland?
“Whole country talking”
“…turning a blind eye to the struggles of hardworking families”
Tension
Mattie McGrath TD says that people in Cashel are shocked to learn a hostel currently being used to house homeless Irish people will switch to housing 74 asylum applicants next week.