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Fine Gael statement

The Fine Gael Executive Council met this evening and following a recommendation from An Taoiseach and Fine Gael party leader Leo Varadkar, Deputy Maria Bailey has been removed from the Dún Laoghaire constituency ticket for the next General Election.

Minster Mitchell O’Connor welcomes launch of Ireland’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities

The Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D. today attended the launch of Bookshare.ie - an initiative of the NCBI to provide a place that will be a single, secure platform to host both home-grown and international book titles across all higher and further education study areas/fields. Bookshare.ie will allow all eligible students to search and instantly download books freely.

Minister Mitchell O’Connor congratulates first graduates of the Insurance Practitioner Apprenticeship at Capstone Project Awards Ceremony

The Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D. today congratulated the first graduating cohort of apprentices from the BA (Hons) in Insurance Practice who traveled to the Department of Education to receive awards for their capstone projects submitted as part of their final year work. The 33 graduates at the ceremony graduated from IT Sligo on Friday 1 November.