The apology by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to Máiría Cahill over the party’s failure to have proper procedures in place for child abuse allegations is totally inadequate, Fine Gael Minister Regina Doherty has said.

Locally based Fine Gael Senator, Neale Richmond, has welcomed the launch of the new Land Development Agency which contains big plans for the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum.

INSTEAD of attacking the Fine Gael-led Government which has brought the country out of the recession, Fianna Fáil should provide the electorate with detailed policies of their own, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Fine Gael Senator and Seanad Brexit Committee Chairman, Neale Richmond, has rubbished the paper produced by the backbench European Research Group on the Irish border in a post Brexit scenario; dismissing it as being wholly presumptive.

Fine Gael Senator and spokesman on European Union Affairs Neale Richmond has called on Fianna Fáil to provide detailed tangible solutions for Brexit rather than making a proposal with no detail.

Senator Joe O’Reilly today met with UK Labour Brexit spokesperson, Keir Starmer MP, as part of Irish efforts at dealing with Brexit.

MORE time needs to be spent addressing agriculture and climate change by those making key decisions, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Figures obtained by Fine Gael Senator, Neale Richmond, have shown a massive increase in British nationals becoming naturalized Irish citizens in the wake of the Brexit Referendum.

Limerick Fine Gael Senator & Government Seanad Spokesperson on Finance, Kieran O’Donnell will visit Germany early next week to see first-hand how the German Public Banks “Sparkassen” operate.

On this exact day, 85 years ago members of Cumann na nGaedheal - from here in Galway and from all across the country - were making their way to Dublin to make history.