Martin Heydon, TD

Taoiseach congratulates new Australian PM.

I, for one, do not want to see businesses and their customers migrate to out of town locations which will sound the death knell of urban centres

Restructuring the interest rate on the bailout deal from 6% to 3.5% represents a significant renegotiation in anyone’s language.

€3.5m investment plan for Burnside Eurocyl supported by Enterprise Ireland.

Fine Gael’s Director of Elections for the Seanad Referendum, Minister Richard Bruton TD, has today (Wednesday) announced details of Fine Gael’s programme of regional activity for the Referendum campaign. This will kick off with a public meeting in Dublin tomorrow night.

Fine Gael TDs and members of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Regina Doherty and Liam Twomey, have welcomed a commitment from AIB CEO, David Duffy, that the bank will write down hundreds of millions of euro in distressed mortgages over the coming 12 months.

Fine Gael’s Deputy Director of Elections for the Seanad Abolition Referendum, Regina Doherty TD, has today (Tuesday) described Fianna Fáil’s personal attack on Kieran Mulvey as a red herring, aimed at distracting voters from its own flip flopping on the issue of the Seanad.

Speaking at a public meeting on the Seanad Abolition Referendum in Limerick this evening (Friday) the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, said the abolition of the Seanad is not a stand-alone measure, but a major element of a wider reform package.