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Mr Dwyer has claimed he was the one who was attacked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ETPNUYX2AFDA7CLTV7HXJHIR24","additional_properties":{"_id":1732897802287},"content":"Researchers also documented reports that a person allegedly threatened Social Democrat canvassers with a brick in Co Cork.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2KGN2C4YJF2NNMN7NWQEAMPXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732897802288},"content":"There were 13 incidents of intimidation or verbal abuse directed against candidates or their canvassers, some of which were then shared online where there was further abuse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDR5N5TXDRFXLD67FE3DMDIGUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732897802289},"content":"In one incident a man filmed himself following <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pearse-doherty\" target=\"_blank\">Pearse Doherty</a> around Lifford, Co Donegal before “directing extreme slurs” against the Sinn Féin 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He said that as gardaí were speaking to people, another person, who had not witnessed the incident, interrupted and said: “The Jews in Amsterdam – they got what they deserved.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MOHYKCIVVDANL4QT54MGY6XMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338072},"content":"“It definitely showed to me there was an awareness that there was a religious aspect to this,” the victim said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CIEKF4WK5ED3PW347C3AID5HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338073},"content":"The previous day, Dutch police arrested <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/11/11/amsterdam-extends-protest-ban-as-bid-to-clarify-root-of-anti-semitic-violence-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">more than 60 people during clashes between supporters of</a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/11/11/amsterdam-extends-protest-ban-as-bid-to-clarify-root-of-anti-semitic-violence-continues/\" target=\"_blank\"> Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv and pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7M323U3VENCKLDP3J3ELDWG4CM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338075},"content":"Following the Dublin nightclub assault, one of the alleged attackers was detained at the scene and the victim went home to bed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVNYZ7XXHBDBDDNFBJXWNUNRCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732809742230},"content":"He woke up the next day with a headache and went to St Vincent’s hospital on the southside of Dublin. 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The statistics do not specify how many of these related to anti-Semitism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVZTP3WW7VFENAK6VOTYLYAK4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732809742238},"content":"Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council Of Ireland, said it had noted “an increase in Jewish people being subjected to increased threats and abuse in Ireland over the last year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34JG24V7OZBYHIT2UWEQ6VU2KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338083},"content":"Mr Cohen noted the nightclub attack occurred on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against German Jews in 1938.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXYIKIIEX5FSVL54RVVJK7YTFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338084},"content":"“We implore the Government and Gardaí to act swiftly and decisively to bring the perpetrators to justice and to address the disturbing trend of anti-Semitism that endangers our community and violates Ireland’s core values,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4IWUMUNL3ZG53EXVUCL3WUFNHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338085},"content":"Ms Erlich, the Israeli ambassador, said she was “concerned for the future of the Jewish and Israeli communities in Ireland”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5EZKQKWT5D2LMEKCNJS46L2GI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338086},"content":"She criticised Government and Opposition support for Palestine and the Occupied Territories Bill and pointed to the flying of Hamas flags during pro-Palestine protests in Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUIQKSUGYJH4BPBXMKEAMIBT3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732807338087},"content":"The Israeli and Irish Governments have clashed multiple times since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in 2023, which has killed 45,000 people, most of them civilians.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PMD6ENADSZF77OH6E42CGHM6K4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732809742244},"content":"Ms Erlich was recalled by her Government last May in protest over Ireland’s recognition Palestine as a state. 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Mr Murphy defended co-living as one solution to the housing crisis and an “exciting” choice to young workers “like a very trendy, kind of boutique hotel-type place”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNQHXPHOAFAQBOMQIENVH2MNXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228402},"content":"His successor as minister for housing, Darragh O’Brien, in late 2020 banned new co-living applications following concerns developers were eschewing construction of traditional apartment schemes in favour of cheaper co-living developments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJMMTV7SKJEFJOCE3HTAHVPSWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228403},"content":"Supporting the ban Mr Murphy said co-living was only ever intended to play a limited and “niche role” in the housing market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22OAVOQ35ZGIFLG2PC54CMTRSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647228404},"content":"Bartra opened Niche Living in Dún Laoghaire, the State’s first co-living complex, in 2023 charging €1,880 a month per person. 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The people have spoken; but it’s going to take quite a while to figure out what exactly they said. ”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKOFY7TJRVG35OD5FMJ5FQVHPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"CM35ZLRU3ZGLJDLLD5I53H3OGM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732954593222},"id":"timestamp-16043","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GOZTZZNQTJC65HXQ3NSQR5TOWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653885},"content":"So, how is the day and the weekend going to pan out?","type":"text"},{"_id":"CPN5NNPQZBHYNOXMTXFLARHVJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653886},"content":"The ballot boxes will be opened at the count centres around the country at 9am after which the ballot papers will be sifted and sorted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFAT6HU6HZFQNIVO3IH3IVGBXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653887},"content":"By 11am some decent tallies will start coming in that should give us an even better sense of where things are going than the exit polls did.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UAT2HZZXJEQVIOK66NCALPCU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653888},"content":"By mid to late afternoon we will have the first seats filled and the counting will continue across the country late into the night.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZHUMC6EH35AWPJQ6KVRRFWPDYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653889},"content":"It will start all over again on Sunday morning and by midnight tomorrow we should be done.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5N2JSFRGJATHGNCYFLGFTOSVM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6X2G756IWVG2NJRD662IIF76DE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732954633220},"id":"timestamp-7399","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SSPVR5ZQNVECTDPKSNZB7WO73U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653891},"content":"We have an update on the exit poll from our Political Editor <b>Pat Leahy </b>that points to what voters may want to happen next.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GD5V7CVI5VAY5BJK6DGW45MNVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653892},"content":"Almost half of voters in yesterday’s general election favour a coalition government based on the combination of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, according to the Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/TCD exit poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZRCHZ2OZFDG5GTTTCTYRHEMK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653893},"content":"Nearly a third of voters (31 per cent) said they would prefer a coalition of just Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil; a further 9 per cent preferred a government of those two parties plus independents; while a further 9 per cent said they would like to see a government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and one or more smaller parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YPRU76LNBFLNBAZEKTAIQBDV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653894},"content":"Combined, this is a total of 49 per cent of voters in the exit poll who want to see a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil-led government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7P4MQGZWTJHUFNSGEOBRE3N25Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653895},"content":"The next most popular choice is a government led by Sinn Féin without Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil, which was chosen by 22 per cent. Another 7 per cent said they wanted to see a Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin coalition (including just 9 per cent of Fianna Fáil voters), while 21 per cent said they wanted to see “something else”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Z5GBYWHERHIFORUGKZQURZI5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732955653896},"content":"The most popular choice for Taoiseach is the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, who was the preferred choice of 35 per cent. He pips the Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, who is on 34 per cent, while the Fine Gael leader Simon Harris is on 27 per cent. 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' A year or two they were in the mid 30s they’re now back around 20 per cent.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AEGRKRAONE7JFK7UMOQOCQFZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZLBWZWZ5QVD3RHNDRAX6TIOPKQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732956686813},"id":"timestamp-11146","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CFZZIBFODJEINGIJMCDK7GXQ5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218453},"content":"Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit has also been on radio and he pointed to the “historic decline” of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7S4C7MBFF5AK3FRZVJZDLFDJPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218454},"content":"He said there combined vote would be around 40 per cent, down 3 per cent on 20 years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPYTI6VO25GIPNL5THKJEZCV5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218455},"content":"He suggested that two years ago there was “a big momentum behind the idea of a left of centre alternative ... and then it faltered.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHGKIUESXNCWXJSMSFZNX4SZ4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"A2SZSNDTHFEZ3PUGYWA2JYE4LU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732956872367},"id":"timestamp-60889","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AUYWLFSMOJHHTHZ7NJQWZJKHO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218457},"content":"Peadar Tóibín of Aontú was very upbeat and said his party could get up to 4 per cent and might be contention for as many as four seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVW657ZEXNA45LT6ZIXBD5J6JM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218458},"content":"“We’re growing and we’ve passed out People Before Profit, Independent Ireland and if the votes go the way I think they’re going we may even pass out the Green Party.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4V453IO7UVH2RL6UEZXAPAJHFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957218459},"content":"He said a key “objective was State funding. We’ve done all of this growth without State funding and it looks like we’re going to reach the threshold for State funding ”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3ZIGOZXINGCBJJIW3ZFZFLZCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"IAJIRTEYPZEIZLS636TUI2KVHE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732957227059},"id":"timestamp-60200","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7NK5OPI3AJBELNYZSBALNMGYUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957326311},"content":"The ballot boxes are now being opened at the counting has started.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBEBHBFFVJAXBP4WG5KEI7KKHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957326312},"content":"We should start getting first round results in the early afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJQ6JKUFUNCKVAYOMSOPG2D4SM","additional_properties":{"_id":"2GLV242F4BEY3JF2JRID4OMULA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732957345351},"id":"timestamp-63407","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"I424R5J3LNHWFBC2XVYXCNIO4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957632134},"content":"The political parties, Independents and others are attempting to co-operate on the tallies at the RDS for Dublin counts,” writes Marie O’Halloran.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YTKINX5H35BDPIBC4CGHGGXBFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732957632135},"content":"Not the easiest thing in the world however as “everyone has different views on how to do it” says one tally man. The efforts follow hit and miss tallies in the local elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4KZHNTU7VAU5FY7DKEXOMAJFU","additional_properties":{"_id":"NWRHA5Q4HNDI7LXBKKSP5JFDEM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732957681514},"id":"timestamp-33354","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L55N75MV4BAVVMS4KGLHG73USA","additional_properties":{"_id":"I4KGCPFCUFAEVE57E5TI6RHMFI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZGBSHSG4UNBYTBQISYUSVKB4PE","additional_properties":{"_id":"KJCSDBO4YNAVNJOY5JONDT4OVM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732958026616},"id":"timestamp-82986","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NHJLUFLNUFCRPHAEUATEXZW42A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657157},"content":"News (very, very early news) in from Dublin Central.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLYZTA4V4JBFNNC67H3X7IYVS4","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"AEJT6KQTYJDVZMFFI6L6QZNC6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"HFYCM7SZ6ZBSRF2EFA2NF6EQEU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732958864105},"id":"timestamp-56264","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5TGDBT4HLZEEZGWH3C7I5P6AJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657160},"content":"Former Social Democrats leader Róisín Shortall said the party is “certainly very encouraged by the 5.8 per cent” in Friday’s exit poll, writes <b>Marie O’Halloran.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IV2RFXB27RFEVMZR6YSBL2UKRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657161},"content":"“It’s really good and it’s almost double what we had in the last election,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHO67N7NPFAONMKZJJVNBOFE3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657162},"content":"Arriving at the RDS, Ms Shortall said “if that holds up in terms of the actual votes today, we would be very happy and we should certainly make gains”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6QRBHHPDVFK3I3WPIFBE643HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657163},"content":"She declined to put an estimate on those gains. “It’s just there’s so many variables in constituencies. It’s just very hard to predict but we’re very happy with that kind of starting point. almost 6 per cent. It’s great.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QM3WNGE7HJFT7GQG5JFFVGEF3I","additional_properties":{"_id":"GMDWZOKVEZCXHJ3FAZ3CXFQ3ZQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732958963917},"id":"timestamp-70024","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6XUJPHYQJFGR7E6CJ7MKMLVQIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657165},"content":"News from Dublin Bay South – two seats for FF looking unlikely although the usual health warnings apply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOLKDPX2HZCUZJWABGCKRBN62M","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"RHUYUNZQ2BG4JKK2P6FYUNEAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WOK7N3HLMZDXPCJBHZQDPSFUS4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732959092790},"id":"timestamp-8871","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"5BCZEO7DYJEGVNHEGXQLVQKZNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657168},"content":"Considerable disquiet in Galway West that tally people were not allowed in before the boxes were opened at 9am, writes <b>John Fallon</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TII23Y5ULZG2NPUYXO3LMLBXCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657169},"content":"Former FF Minister Frank Fahey said it’s the first time he has experienced that and fears that it might impact on tally figures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B75HDIIWBVAZJKKANR5QZ2NZW4","additional_properties":{"_id":"XOXANARHMREQBFA2QM5MHLB4LQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732959154239},"id":"timestamp-71594","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2S6WBKQ36CSQIDDT77MD7HPUGM","additional_properties":{"_id":"6KLI42EEAVGX3JXXQL6S4TMTKI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DCCMI7E5VFGFNABXRZ4TTQVORU","additional_properties":{"_id":"EKEQ6VYTQVGFZMXUC23ZHVGORE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732959297262},"id":"timestamp-83667","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YZFJTEYDIVEIHPYO4ULV6EHYOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657173},"content":"A fresh update from Dublin Bay South, this time from<b> Marie O’Halloran.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3JJX5REJQVFBVNW5JW6LKVIRO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657174},"content":"Tallies predicting in Dublin Bay South that James Geoghegan will top the poll with Labour’s Ivana Bacik in second.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6JVZFMPRFCAHN6265HSAHXGDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657175},"content":"Jim O’Callaghan of Fianna Fáil in third with transfers of Social Democrats Cllr Eoin Hayes determining the fourth seat. He is transferring to Ms Bacik and the Greens’s Cllr Hazel Chu.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJ75WKT6UJH3VAYEW2UKSIA6KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657176},"content":"Labour tallyman Kevin Humphreys predicts a tight contest between Sinn Féin’s Chris Andrews and Ms Chu but that Sinn Féin should hold on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRXE7EEURBC7LINWS6CB5P757I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959657177},"content":"It could be that Fine Gael’s Emma Blaine will lose out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOT4NTSC3VE3RGPN4CMOG7QKWY","additional_properties":{"_id":"MM2H6VMWKVGJDNTPS6IF66PXZU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732959667356},"id":"timestamp-42371","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AN4C3RGOINBITFKES2Y3FO73NE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732959947161},"content":"The early story of Dublin Central in two tweets from Jennifer Bray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7RXKAPTXVHM3K27GRQ6UFC5SI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"NLZEQE7EKVCX7DBMMIDHVIUWIU","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"5L3TIF4J4BBSXBGQVTVMGZSAEU","additional_properties":{"_id":"OVG6KVSXCREKPCTZFBI57LL6FU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732959967290},"id":"timestamp-31881","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"KFWXEIYXOZBCVLXM3GPKH7S6BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732960784604},"content":"Potentially very interesting story coming out of Dublin West, writes <b>Sorcha Pollak.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJZP35STSRBTRMWQGS5GYMON5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732960784605},"content":"With 12 per cent of the boxes open FF’s Jack Chambers and SF’s Paul Donnelly are steaming ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSXYJX62ZZDXHB5JU35DLDUHUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732960784606},"content":"Chambers is on 22 per cent and Donnelly is on 21 per cent. FG Senator Emer Currie is on 12 per cent, PBP-Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger is on 9 per cent and Independent candidate Tania Doyle is coming in fifth position at 7 per cent. 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Local county councillor Ali Farren of the 100% Redress Party managed to find the owner and a happy reunion was made.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XQOJF32MBBBJOHCHQRK5BVQPM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5XAJGH626VGGZARMK52ARXKCIQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732963882861},"id":"timestamp-40037","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"J3PDGRF7WNAD3HXWJJGTUPR2JI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"UP7NGT2ZZBFNDJUE7Y2Z26CHYE","additional_properties":{"_id":"VKTETWGQKNCYNOZDMEJMRT4LJ4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732963967019},"id":"timestamp-86146","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ETWSTLUJRNFY5LFXOFPLB7Y4MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033373},"content":"At 9am the Limerick count centre was told that the city count would go ahead despite candidates not appearing in alphabetical order on the ballot paper, writes <b>David Raleigh.</b> As it currently stands, 29 of 137 boxes have been tallied & is showing that three outgoing TDs Willie O’Dea, (FF) is on 20 per cent Kieran O’Donnell (FG) is on 14 per cent and Maurice Quinlivan (SF) is on 12 per cent. 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they feel if Ward can add a percentage point or two to his 12.7 per cent he would be in a. good position to take the fourth seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTH7J7RFZFFYVDQTOQFP4X5JIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"FIPHZSCV5NFHVDBQJCN5OYJVNQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732964736996},"id":"timestamp-83427","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"B36RZU6NGZCBFE6RELSNHWQLOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033394},"content":"Former Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, who controversially left the party in October, is polling strongly across the county according to early tallies, as he bids to regain a seat as an Independent. Early indications are that Willie Aird (FG) and Minister of State Seán Fleming (FF) are also performing well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5U3CK4BW3VBL5GO7OGTHLK76BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033395},"content":"Elaine Mullally (Ind), Maria McCormack (SF) and former FG councillor Aisling Moran (Ind) are also pulling in votes from across the three-seat constituency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U53QUZXJGBD7LHERUTRSM7MVK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"RAXUI5P7CZBQFNYOIYLVNBAZUQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732964821707},"id":"timestamp-46613","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FJX5F6NB3VH3DANG7TJUB6LB4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033397},"content":"The chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party Alan Farrell is facing a battle to retain his seat in Fingal East, writes <b>Martin Wall.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFTSMRW2DFC2VLHW2QGZ4P7YKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033398},"content":"With more 80 per cent of boxes now open, tally figures suggest he is neck and neck with Ann Graves of Sinn Féin. Each have just more than 14 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6NOFJ3WLVGITLD2L55WFC4DRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033399},"content":"Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien seems set to top the poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLAP7A45TJHYPM2PU5B22UXB5U","additional_properties":{"_id":"RCDIGKMUKVBY7NG7QQ3EXCN23I"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732965898928},"id":"timestamp-39045","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LTT3TWMRQRBIVOHBWSPG6PIXPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033401},"content":"Sinn Féin is on track for 40-plus seats, Martin Kenny has told <b>Arthur Beesley</b> in Sligo","type":"text"},{"_id":"T65JWTEIDZHJNL2NMO6WZS7CZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033402},"content":"The TD pointed to a “little swing” in the last two days of the campaign which could see the party increasing its Dáil presence from 37.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NW2I3AX4ZJE7RMIBU2G6BXSRAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033403},"content":"Mr Kenny is on course for a smooth re-election in Sligo-Leitrim, with running mate Chris MacManus in the hunt for a second party seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6TZXGLMRVHVXAT33QGZBUZCGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033404},"content":"“We felt a little swing in the last couple of days. We could feel it coming along. Certainly in the last week the difference was there. We could see it building,” he said in the count centre after tallying Sligo boxes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYJUWLZXVBDYHDILD5CZNMNRQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033405},"content":"“We’re going to get probably over the 40 seats nationally – and how many over that, it could be down to transfers for the last seat in a lot of the constituencies. So we’re happy enough from that perspective from what we were last June in a poor enough local election.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZOEXFBZ6VBT7NOIFBQLKP6TDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"XZEW343FO5AZZMKYZ5HNBH5QRE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732966055697},"id":"timestamp-6380","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"G2SZQTNQJRDFJC7EFS3S4NUSE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033407},"content":"All the boxes in Dublin Central have now been opened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTTLVXG3BFEUFHN6GGGUK2HDBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033408},"content":"The tally figures have Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald at 20 per cent, Fine Gael’s Paschal Donohoe at 17 per cent, Social Democrats Gary Gannon at 13 per cent, Independent Gerard Hutch at 9 per cent, Labour’s Marie Sherlock at 7 per cent, Fianna Fáil’s Mary Fitzpatrick at 7 per cent, Green’s Neasa Hourigan at 6 per cent and Independent Malachy Steenson at 5 per cent. 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Fine Gael’s Emer Higgins is close behind on 9.5 per cent, with Fianna Fáil’s Shane Moynihan on 9.1 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAV5KD2XWZE27BXX5FIB4LYXLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033418},"content":"It looks like a battle royale for the fifth seat, between Francis Timmons (Labour) on 5.2 per cent; Eoin Ó Broin (Social Democrats) 6.1 per cent; Gino Kenny on 5.6 per cent and Paul Gogarty (Independent) 6.9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HQZGTRNJZAWPLISGVKMFIFQRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033419},"content":"It appears Kenny’s vote has been squeezed by both the Social Democrats and his neighbour in Clondalkin Glen Moore, running for the Irish Freedom Party, who is on 3.3 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BR2ACW2XZFWFEYYEQDQQVUT3M","additional_properties":{"_id":"ACUS4QNFH5EW5EWZUFLONBUV4M"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732966906588},"id":"timestamp-83739","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PSBXLADZKVB4HNNHA3ZTN5NEJY","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"P5FWUIUEURCU5ITBDO7NG62YMU","additional_properties":{"_id":"HZ3GPU7SOJHJTHO72AAJ7DO3WM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732966992276},"id":"timestamp-9111","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TFUECNZCCFFUZOTFACQVVHQULY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033423},"content":"Outgoing Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is topping the polls in the Meath East constituency, according to early tallies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SS6SEIRERBBMDJP5ECSHF2EH54","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033424},"content":"<b>Shauna Bowers </b>reports that a total of 25 of 127 boxes have been tallied to date, meaning there are health warnings attached to the indications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GKOOFYR4WVA2HGUAD3BC52WLD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033425},"content":"McEntee, Fianna Fáil’s Thomas Byrne and Sinn Féin’s Darren O’Rourke are the incumbents in the constituency. The boxes opened to date would geographically favour Ms McEntee and Mr Byrne.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CQUHV5G3GNHEDGBV2GPL5G6SSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033426},"content":"As it stands, McEntee has 21 per cent of votes, followed by Byrne at 13 per cent, and O’Rourke close by at 12 per cent. The Sinn Féin candidate was the first elected in the area in the 2020 election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJSHAF3TYVGQ7PZI7AYISUOJG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033427},"content":"The constituency has seen the number of seats it holds upgraded to four from three, with a number of candidates currently neck and neck to claim the final seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCFKJQ7ZSFBERJWEWR4C4IKDD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033428},"content":"Both Sinn Féin’s Maria White and Fine Gael’s Sharon Tolan currently stand at 9 per cent, while Fianna Fáil’s Caroline O’Reilly is at 7 per cent. Aontú's Emer Tóibín, the sister of party leader Peadar Tóibín, is at 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FO3CDKV6CVD7JOWTSZJP534FWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033429},"content":"In total, Fine Gael currently has 29 per cent of votes, followed by Sinn Féin at 22 per cent and Fianna Fáil at 19 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5WWEDTN3FEO5DABAQUMB6NOYU","additional_properties":{"_id":"UEL6MKGNVVBR3GNQPKTFZSWZCA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732967293979},"id":"timestamp-11508","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LZP2BBWPM5CPXIKLIXSPMS3UFI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"NWC7K7JBMRERXE6PSBDLIAH644","additional_properties":{"_id":"NAQGQNBNZBCTTISZCZIPX26MJQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732967482102},"id":"timestamp-55921","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7LUGD42DNFECPGOBCAATHLNIYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968033433},"content":"Mick Wallace, who entered the race late on, looks to be out of the running in Wexford.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2BUEQ7SMRAH5LC6EJUREOHPDY","additional_properties":{"_id":"CAKGZC73KNHGLLAZBQJDQ4RY24"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732968713143},"id":"timestamp-66690","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OFTRHT6FPFEDVKBJY67WBAUONQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507272},"content":"We have some updated tallies in. First up is<b> Martin Wall.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WA2NNRIK45EHRNWP37QW44PBGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507273},"content":"The chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party Alan Farrell is in a battle to retain his seat in the new constituency of Fingal East.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDEGBB3PW5DJRBUI2HA7OCDF2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507274},"content":"Tally figures suggest that Farrell is slightly behind Ann Graves of Sinn Féin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGE3STLDKRDIPDXWWYBVPEHVRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507275},"content":"With all boxes open in Fingal East, tally figures suggested that Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is set to top and poll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QFI25REBRBWNPXHQGLJICK6QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507276},"content":"Tally figures indicate that O’Brien has received about 23 per cent of the first preference votes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTK6QFIUZRDGLCJFKW5GR7BEI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507277},"content":"According to the tally figures Farrell is running about 65 votes behind Graves who narrowly lost out on a seat in the local elections earlier this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"US6Y5MCSKJCQ3IAKV4QXAKX3WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507278},"content":"Just slightly ahead is out-going TD Duncan Smith of the Labour Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7Q6HE66KVGWBLURFBEHLM6NNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507279},"content":"Tally figures suggest that Graves is on 14.6 per cent, Smith on 14.5 per cent and Farrell on 14.4 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WKHTISCBUVBCNK5J4KZKBQSDM4","additional_properties":{"_id":"3KFUZXJRB5EXLJ6R5A5EUNSI24"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732968756670},"id":"timestamp-37568","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OITPRJOKNVHV3LBJMMHQ6HFKCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507281},"content":"As expected, with roughly two thirds of boxes tallied in Galway East, outgoing independent TD Seán Canney looks set to comfortably retain his seat having so far accumulated 25 per cent of first preference votes. writes <b>Cian O’Connell</b>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6C4F7PVTNAF7JZTGP5RXNLNRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507282},"content":"Minister of State Anne Rabbitte (7 per cent) is facing a battle, with fellow Fianna Fáil candidate Albert Dolan (15 per cent) in a strong position. Mr Dolan looks likely to take the second of four seats in the constituency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLXPPHZER5DPPKZQEU6MK3LAJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507283},"content":"Fine Gael’s Pete Roche (10 per cent) is currently outperforming his party’s other candidates Niamh Madden (5.5 per cent) and Clodagh Higgins (5.7 per cent). It is still early days, but Mr Roche should benefit from transfers down the line to claim a seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3RIV7TFV5DGFD6EOSUJIGCDQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507284},"content":"Sinn Féin’s Louis O’Hara (13 per cent), who narrowly missed out on a shock win in 2020, has started positively. A strong showing in Tuam augurs well for the Athenry native, though he may struggle to compete with rival candidates on transfers. Votes from Athenry are among those yet to be counted, where Mr O’Hara will be hoping for another boost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWDD77GZ7RDVTNXHYOSUR2PH3M","additional_properties":{"_id":"EWIC2HSEG5GZDGK46BAZEOW5XA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732968877024},"id":"timestamp-25342","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CMBNWXKKFNCOXETCE2CD7RMKN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507286},"content":"The sorting of votes is now well underway in Mallow GAA ground where ballots from the three Cork county constituencies are being counted, writes<b> Liz Dunphy</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JW76EF4WWZGXLOCN3U5N46UQOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507287},"content":"Fianna Fáil TD Aindrias Moynihan said that initial tallies show “a lot of uncertainty” regarding the retention of his seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RRU4XSF4BJB3DEVHMPLYF74HNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507288},"content":"“It’s all up in the air. It’s really scary at this stage, just watching those boxes being opened,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZP5VSGVRYVAYHATTNTNJWZ47NU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507289},"content":"“I’ve seen a few snapshots and it’s really tight at this stage.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJYTDECBTZGZPFJG72ZOQ3GSD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507290},"content":"“Everything” for him is riding on winning a seat, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVOKHJMC5BFGTDAHIVLTJCSV2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507291},"content":"The three constituencies being counted in Mallow are the four seat constituency of Cork East and the three seat constituencies of Cork North West and Cork South West.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCECFE3DMBA6BLIE6QFJFOIW5M","additional_properties":{"_id":"5TUCOVFLR5FF3G7KRVJPIWRDXE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732968923143},"id":"timestamp-83019","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JYNOTDKOSVBJHGKJJOP66NJ5RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507293},"content":"With more than a third of boxes open at the Waterford Count, it is clear five candidates are in a battle for four seats, with Sinn Fein led by David Cullinane topping the poll by a decisive margin – and Green Party outgoing TD Marc O Cathasigh unlikely to retain his seat, reports<b> Kevin O’Sullivan.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIB3HSB66BF75PC6JM6G7GOBTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507294},"content":"The tallies indicate that if Sinn Fein transfers strongly with Cullinane, based in Waterford City having a big surplus, Cllr Conor McGuinness based in Dungarvan could take a second seat for the party. He is also polling strongly in western parts of the constituency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FT5OUS3IN5B45LXLUGDE7MN4FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507295},"content":"By mid-morning, Cullinane has 28 per cent of the vote with Sinn Fein at 36 per cent, while outgoing Fianna Fail TD Mary Butler had 17 per cent of the vote and is likely to be re-elected. With 18 per cent of the vote, Senator John Cummins is expected to win back a Fine Gael seat lost in 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRNNVC2WWRATHDG7YSKOHY2EIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507296},"content":"Its expected outgoing independent TD Matt Shanahan (10.7 per cent) will be in a battle with McGuinness for the final seat. Labour’s Sadhbh O’Neill was at 2.8 per cent and Mary Roche of the Social Democrats at 6 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEKWGKVUGZEA7AELO54AZAPDNI","additional_properties":{"_id":"3G46KIVABZCJTHRINJNIIGHYF4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732968973324},"id":"timestamp-73223","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"2IBV7I3SXJEDFMEAQA6LRWIQ5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507298},"content":"In the four-seat Cork East constituency with 25 per cent of the boxes open Fianna Fáil’s Deirdre O’Brien is the early front runner on 13.6 per. cent followed closely by Sinn Féin’s Pat Buckley and independent Mary Linehan Foley both on 11 per cent, writes <b>David Forsythe.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6B24EJHMJG4VJXIXB5SUEEIMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507299},"content":"Also in the mix are Noel McCarthy (FG) and James O’Connor (FF) both on 10 per cent of the vote. Independent Willie O’Leary, Social Democrats Liam Quade and Mark Stanton of Fine Gael are all on 9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WUBJGZNBKFBULBSZ252D5PUSC4","additional_properties":{"_id":"F3RNOBNIQ5H5RMV4BNQ6LHPS7A"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969045572},"id":"timestamp-69797","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PQEKNTAOR5DRXPVREV4MBD66EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507301},"content":"Pat Leahy has a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-what-we-know-so-far-as-ballot-boxes-are-opened/\" target=\"_blank\">moment in time </a>assessment of the state of play.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KFYAEPHYJCKPL656S2XVXO4Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WRK4QLF3SREYDDVWANFWJTCUCA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969109718},"id":"timestamp-5994","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TG7REDFX2RGR7EDC55MDW7DG74","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507303},"content":"Ireland First leader Derek Blighe, who is running in Cork North Central, expects Independent Ireland’s Ken O’Flynn to be the main beneficiary when he is eliminated from the poll after polling, according to tallies, approximately 4 per cent of first preferences","type":"text"},{"_id":"IDC2WCCQHBGUXDABM2VR6EKBZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507304},"content":"“I’m happy with how I’m doing so far – I canvassed all over, I did Mallow, I did the northside of the city, Glanmire, Watergrasshill, Glenville, Carrignavar, Whitechurch – I’m only just in but I got a decent amount of support in Mallow and a decent amount of support on the Northside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFPKVAR4BJCALIPHL3IU2K2XTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507305},"content":"“The way it’s looking at the moment, I’m not going to make it – I would imagine a lot of votes will go to Ken O’Flynn, some might go to Sinn Fein – after that, I don’t know,” Blighe told The Irish Times at the Nemo Rangers Count Centre in Cork.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZVQM4FFUNEBRLUHL6F46D2EWE","additional_properties":{"_id":"RJ6PW3O3SJD25D5HI26CY5XVQM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969146730},"id":"timestamp-93418","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LEGKRHG5NNGZ3AT3TL4FKFPLQI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"WIRNXYTBL5EARO6FM2RGAW77NE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CI2TPJAPCBCWDMWZUDWFN2N3MQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969300924},"id":"timestamp-63300","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"E4ZCMWJBNFGINKIMEEXZNNKHFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507309},"content":"All boxes are open in Dublin West and Fianna Fáil’s Jack Chambers and Sinn Féin’s Paul Donnelly are set to secure the first two seats, reports <b>Sorcha Pollak.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2OQHPVKKJD27DYW2ZPG4SEDGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507310},"content":"With 100 per cent of boxes tallied, Mr Chambers had secured 22 per cent of first preference votes (9,396 votes) followed by Mr Donnelly with 17 per cent of votes (7,631).","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4PSKHO7RJAIFP3J3DK2WKIUD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507311},"content":"The estimated quota for the constituency based on the opening of all boxes is 7,281.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJWWMJP4Z5EBDF52L6CAATWCVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507312},"content":"In a solid third place is Fine Gael Senator Emer Currie who is on track to secure the third vote in the constituency, with 15 per cent of first preference votes (6,663).","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WTSTWFI7VB7NCU6OY3EAECKR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507313},"content":"PBP-Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger remains on eight per cent while Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman is holding onto a marginal lead of seven per cent to secure the fifth seat in this constituency. Labour’s John Walsh and Aontú's Ellen Troy’s are holding a joint six per cent of first preference votes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WD2JH6BTVZCDHJWY7DDWXKCDOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507314},"content":"About 57.1 per cent of Dublin West registered voters cast a ballot in this general election, closely mirror national turnout of 56.35 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2PD4NW46FBDPPILW5BONDA6KQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"XKXAKFDCRRAITJ2QPJ3XWIAL4Q"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969404995},"id":"timestamp-87033","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"INOE5XS3FJAQ5HH6S6UJUW3SUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732969507316},"content":"This is a pretty sobering tweet for the Green Party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GWYSUD5PVANLG5TDWFM3JFK3E","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TTZQEMTU2REFTBHVAJKE36XDRE","additional_properties":{"_id":"FCKNI2H3FRF6ZLXJIUGKGDBFXA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969530599},"id":"timestamp-90616","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"S5DE2SWHMRE4VPFSOMASDTLB4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300777},"content":"It appears that Green Party TD Francis Noel Duffy will lose his seat in Dublin South West, writes <b>Ronan McGreevy.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LWIZYK6SVDEZH3MQU3WJA72SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300778},"content":"The husband of Government minister Catherine Martin has just 2.8 per cent of the vote in the constituency with 82 per cent of the tallies done.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SACK4JA7JCGJELNHV472G3KEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300779},"content":"He came to prominence in the election campaign when it emerged that he objected to 330 homes in his own constituency which he claimed was overlooking his home. He claimed the development overlooked his kitchen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWDP27JOMZAPDLLVODSBRU2HGA","additional_properties":{"_id":"HRKAEOG6AREHPLCWVCDAPPMVBM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969606674},"id":"timestamp-89362","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SDVF5HWXFZEQDIH6VAK4OEL63Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300781},"content":"With all boxes now opened and tallied in Dublin Rathdown, Green Party minister Catherine Martin could be in danger of losing her seat, according to <b>Jack White.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LR67UW6MENBC3NLGR6WCH6Y6QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300782},"content":"Fine Gael, meanwhile, look set to retain their two seats, despite Josepha Madigan’s retirement from politics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGRMYP2PUJGN5FGPPBCHSRKKWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300783},"content":"Minister of State Neale Richmond leads the tally results with 20 per cent, followed by Fine Gael councillor Maeve O’Connell (13 per cent).","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKZ3IOEHIVBCTP33WAPIYIHFSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300784},"content":"Fianna Fáil councillor Shay Brennan ended at 12 per cent in the cross-party tally, while independent councillor Michael Fleming and Social Democrats candidate Sinéad Gibney find themselves at 9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2WQOVJZ5ZEWVK5OW3LP4MXHOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300785},"content":"Although minimally behind Ms Gibney, the Green Party’s Catherine Martin faces losing her seat at 8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVDOVWQ5SZE5RO2JLMEPY4AP6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300786},"content":"Sinn Féin’s Shaun Tracey ended at 7 per cent, while former Fine Gael minister and now-independent candidate Alan Shatter ended at 4 per cent, according to the tally results, which noted a turnout of 59 per 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yesterday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNLOSUI2K5BNFIX5R7ZJ2QF7JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300790},"content":"Ms Cairns is in second place to take a seat according to current tallies on 20.1 per cent of the vote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AW3UK27D6FEOVGAHY5KAIGEJ6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300791},"content":"Fianna Fail’s TD Christopher O’Sullivan is coming in to take the third and last seat with 19.2 per cent of the vote according to current tallies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWZQSHSJDZEFBEJV62MGJ5SPII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300792},"content":"But Fine Gael, between its two candidates Senator Tim Lombard on 9 per cent of the vote and Noel O’Donovan on 12.9 per cent of the vote are currently the county’s leading party with 22 per cent of the total vote, sounding some caution for Mr O’Sullivan and Ms Cairns as these candidates will most likely transfer votes in later rounds to each other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQPD6UH7NBAM7COMMDM5KMWYAI","additional_properties":{"_id":"UISYSIYAKBD2NGXFFKFGXWDGXY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732970107823},"id":"timestamp-26589","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"E6BONU2QWNF6DGGWQWZ4XFECSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300794},"content":"Ossian Smyth is among the senior Green Party figures looking to be in real trouble after all of the boxes were opened in Dún Laoghaire and the tallies completed, reports<b> Emmet Malone.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRS3B47EJRCTTEBUII2BI6RF4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300795},"content":"Smyth, a Minister of State in the current government, is reckoned to on just 7.5 per cent, roughly half the first preference vote of Barry Ward who some had seen as potentially a rival for the constituency’s fourth seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MRIW6WBXAFBOJAVJLEADV7LURA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300796},"content":"Ward is on 14.9 per 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event Shane O’Neill is eliminated but Smyth’s route back from the brink is unclear. He looks to have stayed ahead of Social Democrat, Hugo Mills, but only just and he needs an awful lot of transfers from him and Labour’s Martha Fanning to have a chance of surviving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWBRA5423JHXRN7VNFZBUB3QIY","additional_properties":{"_id":"GQC7F4BRUVFUXFWZK5J63XC5MA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732970241770},"id":"timestamp-71073","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"UVSSQ72KUFDN7PZLJY5ZIGR6TU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300801},"content":"Early tallies in Cavan-Monaghan has Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy nailed on with 20 per cent of the vote. writes <b>Seanin Graham.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDOYORJJNZD2HIR2OZH5XJWOWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300802},"content":"Almost half of the 260 boxes have been opened and in second place is Fianna Fáil’s Niamh Smyth followed by Fine Gael’s David Maxwell, Aontú's Sarah O’Reilly and Fianna Fáil’s Robbie Gallager.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JPBN5CPURDT7DFH325KMBFXWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300803},"content":"One Sinn Féin source said he is confident that the party’s Pauline Tully will retain a second seat for the party – and possibly gain a third in the republican border county constituency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LGLG44HMFE5RLUU4O4C6KDB2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300804},"content":"“We’re going to fasten down two – and it’s too early to dismiss the chance of a third seat,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUBA7ST76RDZHNHJDBBT3ZFA3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732970300805},"content":"Last month’s shock departure of Fine Gael minister Heather Humphreys – who held a seat since 2011 - led Sinn Féin to field a late candidate, councillor Cathy Bennett, a theatre manager in Monaghan town.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SN5HIFGZNNGXJCGA52H3XWN4FE","additional_properties":{"_id":"LO72TWLPY5HALCRZ6EHK353ZM4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1732969140000},"id":"timestamp-12698","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"SOJF27BATVEGLMRMQDRNG7BDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732953043040},"content":"Counting is ongoing around the country with tallies being reported across all 43 constituencies. The largest parties appear on course for a tight finish in their share of the vote in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/election2024/\">general election 2024</a>, according to the results of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/\" target=\"_blank\">an exit poll last night</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2GTG33XTNDE7DHTWBIVWPGYFM","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"},{"_id":"K4K6OVKYCRC45G34XOC44QWRII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732953043042},"content":"Stay with us throughout the day for all the latest from the count centres along with reaction, analysis and opinion from our reporters and writers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPKJKTV6LBARVFI32PZFMRMPUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732953043043},"content":"Key Reads","type":"header"},{"_id":"SU545Y5UTRCPZLCBOZAKIYL64U","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"free"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conor Pope"}},"name":"Conor Pope"}]},"description":{"basic":"Ministers Roderic O’Gorman, Catherine Martin and Stephen Donnelly all look to have a fight on their hands to hold their seats"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T12:39:29.848Z","headlines":{"basic":"Election 2024 live updates: Some Ministers could be in trouble, while tallies show Gerry Hutch in contention for Dáil seat ","native":""},"label":{"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Live: Election 2024"},"breaking_news":{"text":"on"},"live":{"text":"live"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"VTSFKKSJ4LJWKWQHJLPKHFTXTA","auth":{"1":"4d24e139a0c317e8b44fc65ba02435d94642950279c64d5184e89b6794ec220c"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/VTSFKKSJ4LJWKWQHJLPKHFTXTA.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"live-story","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/ireland-general-election-live-results-latest-updates/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"WYXWJEKWXBFPDDKD4UNRO3HFFI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-what-we-know-so-far-as-ballot-boxes-are-opened/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6K6SFDC7ONCO3G2NYQGJNNPHEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353589},"content":"It’s early, far too early, to be reaching definitive conclusions about where this <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/general-election/\" target=\"_blank\">election</a> is going. But with the ballot boxes opened about three hours ago, it is possible to point to some emerging trends – and identify where the winners and losers might be when the dust eventually settles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTUVBZEAEBFOHBLMNZFKN3F4UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353590},"content":"Firstly, it looks like, on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/\" target=\"_blank\">exit poll</a> shares of the vote at least, that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna Fáil</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a> are probably headed back to government. There is a margin of error on the figures, and the exit poll could also be wrong. But it is very unlikely that it could be wrong by enough to change the picture that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will be close enough to a Dáil majority to make an alternative government impossible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4E3UV3HDJFDNL56OF5TUGYBBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353591},"content":"If the two parties achieve around their exit poll level of 20 to 21 per cent, that should put them in the mid-to high 70s in seat terms. A decent seat bonus – and with the strong transfers suggested by the exit poll, that should happen – could put them past 80 seats. A majority in the new Dáil is 88 seats, so on that sort of number, they’re nearly there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCEF2HRFUNGALCQZLRAHZQRXPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353592},"content":"But who would join them? That’s a lot less clear, and obviously considerations about government will be influenced by the final seat tally, but if the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/green-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Greens</a> suffer the sort of meltdown that the party is currently teetering on the edge of – then they’re probably out of the reckoning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DFTVD3VHQFBW3EMKVB3L6WGQ7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353593},"content":"Would <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Labour</a> and/or the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/social-democrats/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Democrats</a> step up? The Soc Dems have sounded distinctly unenthused about the prospect. And Labour would surely be looking over its shoulder if the Soc Dems declined to serve. If that happens – and really, we are getting ahead of ourselves here – the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will have to go looking for the independents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFVBCGTTPNHTZJUGYFTSZ4F3GE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353594},"content":"And the Greens are really in trouble. With tallies still coming in, the party could face losing all its seats – as happened the last time it was in government. It’s really too early to say, but some seats are definitely gone and others – including party leader Roderic O’Gorman, junior minister Ossian Smyth and maybe even Cabinet minister Catherine Martin – will be hanging on by their fingernails.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGTESFCOXFCR7GUMD3Z5A7TTUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353595},"content":"Labour looks set to have a better day, and the Social Democrats a much better day. Fears about leader Holly Cairns’s seat have been assuaged by early tallies, while Gary Gannon in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-central/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Central</a> seems to have seen off the challenge from returned ex-MEP Clare Daly. It looks like the end of the road for her. It looks like Mick Wallace’s campaign didn’t get off the ground in Wexford, either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ODZMUSFOBBSHLDJVBZKRXYFNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732968353596},"content":"First counts are a bit away yet. They will give us a better grasp of the state of play – especially whether Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can nurture serious hopes of getting above the 80 seat mark. And whether <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sinn-fein/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinn Féin</a>, for the second time in a row, will win the popular vote but be left with no apparent route to government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Pat Leahy"}},"name":"Pat Leahy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Indications are Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are probably headed back to government"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T12:10:36.314Z","headlines":{"basic":"Election 2024: What we know so far as ballot boxes are opened","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JC3H3SZCWAJRW6X4MHUNI2PQPY","auth":{"1":"5d9ecf8c79da951c39dd17c411c9a81ef8e963e14567a7d11217fd6e8cdf81cb"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JC3H3SZCWAJRW6X4MHUNI2PQPY.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/election-2024-what-we-know-so-far-as-ballot-boxes-are-opened/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"I5MANY2MWBAP7KGTIGIRATTUYI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":199,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-h0e8gjgjaqe0egb7.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/76f02e9b-4ace-4b53-9083-c4a0f12ac7d9/versions/1732968580/media/57d01e1bc6aa52d93c1439eea635a6bc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/slim-majority-say-government-did-not-do-enough-to-tackle-climate-change-according-to-exit-poll/","content_elements":[{"_id":"OWDKQT2GHRASJMY7O43NSM37XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725555},"content":"A slim majority of voters believe the current Government did not go far enough in tackling climate change – significantly more than those who believe it has gone too far.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HDFRDFDQMVC2VIBIDG4TNQZQAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725559},"content":"An Irish Times/RTÉ/TG4/Trinity College Dublin exit poll by Ipsos B&A found that 51 per cent of respondents felt the Government has not gone far enough in its actions to address climate change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3Y3EYRQU5FPBPTBZC4GJLM5CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725560},"content":"With early tallies indicating that the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/green-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Party</a> will struggle to retain many of its 12 seats, including in its Dublin heartlands, the fortunes of that party seem to be disconnected to an extent from voter views on the required ambition for climate policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGYUUG27PJHHHMBEYQRPNXSZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725561},"content":"The polls find that in Dublin, 62 per cent of voters feel the Government is not doing enough on climate, falling away to 48 per cent in the rest of Leinster, 44 per cent in Munster, and 50 per cent in Connacht/Ulster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WJFMNPE52FDORAAOJMMDZQHYQA","additional_properties":{"_id":"S77EA4M255F2HDCMAJ7YAJQKWM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TN6JHVJGZFHO5IYYQY4NCMGDGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725562},"content":"Just under a third of Irish voters – 29 per cent – believe that the Coalition’s actions are “about right”, with 20 per cent saying it has gone too far.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZOOXRTMNFCTZBGUNSB355LCJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725563},"content":"The results suggest that younger cohorts have an expectation that the Government should have done more – with 60 per cent of 18-24 year olds and 63 per cent of those between 25 and 34 saying not enough has been done.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUXKCAOHQNHZBN6RKUFS42JIOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725564},"content":"This falls away among older cohorts – but not steeply, with 46 per cent of those aged 65 or older also believing more should be done. 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Support was slightly softer among <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-party/\" target=\"_blank\">Labour Party</a> supporters, where 68 per cent said more should be done.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IK4LE2IBINAHBBF4IE2BN526BA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725567},"content":"Among the large parties of Government, a large minority of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna Fáil </a>voters said more should have been done (47 per cent), a similar level to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fine-gael/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Gael</a>, where 44 per cent supported that view.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HK4Z5ODZCZGZFETG64VG77RHSU","additional_properties":{"_id":"BZNVPAV7BFDT7APTKJU62GINQ4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RDF4NLLVKZFKTFQ6ONFNZOCERI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725568},"content":"Exactly half of respondents said that the Government does not do enough to support the Irish language. Interestingly, support for that proposition was significantly stronger in the younger cohorts than among older people, with 66 per cent of 18 - 24 year olds of that view, falling to 41 per cent among those aged 65 and older.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YXA6R2GRJDUDFM5Q47GZ7Q4PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732966725569},"content":"Some 41 per cent of voters were of the view that Government action to support the Irish language was sufficient, while just eight per cent of respondents felt the Coalition did too much in this area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3I6YA6LH3ZEV3NJIZ5Y5AIPDJI","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}},"name":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}]},"description":{"basic":"Two thirds of 18 - 24 year olds said not enough has been done to support the Irish language"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T12:04:35.585Z","headlines":{"basic":"Slim majority say Government did not do enough to tackle climate change, according to exit poll","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Election 2024","url":"/election2024/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2LCMVNF52VCNTDYEB4P4SNLATE","auth":{"1":"71e4eb6a0cc4bfdf04be4d3a10f45ee30dea34caa05a155e3ab6e9e4c4937b44"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2LCMVNF52VCNTDYEB4P4SNLATE.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ","auth":{"1":"146656f9244eb8ce84d36fd4e3c519672cca8c4da72f47512b76196f1b454a7f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QSWFXEVMGBHWPCSR4TJ3B6FKJQ.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/11/30/slim-majority-say-government-did-not-do-enough-to-tackle-climate-change-according-to-exit-poll/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}}],"count":10000,"_id":"12dedd8022f11552229fb2c3f224b5946053f3c9e3c9c4fa4671400a73b1ba90"},"expires":1732970696017,"lastModified":1732970395894},"{\"feedOffset\":0,\"feedSize\":3,\"includeSections\":\"/ireland/social-affairs\"}":{"data":{"content_elements":[{"_id":"IBI4LZ2AYNBCDL6CPCQSSL2354","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":289,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a197a490-6956-4536-a598-fee218ca7658/versions/1732895011/media/9c9b5f7173a063fb1d768f23b87f54be_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/11/29/homeless-figures-reach-a-new-high-of-almost-15000/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JFIVIEGQ7VAZ5LDNF5FUVGBZ5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732875162990},"content":"The number of people in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">homeless</a> accommodation in the State has reached another record high and is now at almost 15,000 people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGRF7VNR7RBLJCLVS56IIAPD7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888547810},"content":"There were 14,966 people homeless in October, consisting of 10,321 adults and 4,645 children under the age of 18, from 2,161 families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4T4HVAOSPVCLBKWWPMWWR5ARMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888547811},"content":"It amounts to an increase of 1.4 per cent on the 14,760 people accessing emergency accommodation in September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XVUFHYKANGHFDFLBZ2COBVISU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886875185},"content":"The homelessness figures have increased year on year by 13.5 per cent. 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This is done independent of the Minister.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILKBA6G4OZE3VMGCVSLLE3ILOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732888547820},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLOCL2TI4ZEJZD3LTZN75CXMXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732886875180},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7MWYL2N3JFMXJWMXPF4I7RAEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500464},"content":"Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin said the latest rise demonstrates the country needs a change of Government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RCIDON7YP5B2FIPUIUKAIE5J2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500465},"content":"“Once again, the number of adults, children, single people, and families without a home has increased,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM4EUKLDWNGVNHFEFF4CZJKAM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500466},"content":"“And this just weeks after the Government announced its record giveaway budget. As people go to the polls throughout today, they should ask themselves do they want another five years of rising homelessness. Because that is what they will get it Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael go back into government.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QFFNT5QC6FGOXAFNFXHQ5ISXHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500467},"content":"Social Democrats deputy leader and housing spokesperson Cian O’Callaghan described the figures as a “monumental failure” on the part of the Government that has “devastating consequences for people’s lives”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTTSULUAFBBAXAA4QTFQPUGRJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500468},"content":"He added: “We are not a country starved of resources. The outgoing Government has had record budget surpluses while simultaneously breaking the homelessness record 24 times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2AZ6MXJNBEULHSZBDH23GFVVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500469},"content":"“This constant rise in homelessness is not inevitable – it is the direct result of failed policies from a Government that refused to treat the housing crisis like the emergency that it is.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKRXYSWYOVAAXFEUWOEISNDZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500470},"content":"Simon Communities of Ireland interim executive director Tony Geoghegan said the outgoing Government has made commitments to end homelessness, but the “problems continue unabated”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPUB23UNPZA5FIQP5GIT7HRTZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500471},"content":"He added: “The new Government must commit to end homelessness and the need to sleep rough by 2030. 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Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3YOLVNJTNFIPESO6LFTB7WQOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGROOXCI3BA7PADF3C5PWFI7OU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 1st December, Advent Sunday. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVG3SVBDENHVVO6IDIP6SUDHPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UH7EB7NIFH4ZAOOUPMZJY5ICM","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"GU5YANUMJ5DQNLYYVGWESWLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCT3UHJXGRGMZJNKA3YIX77CQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DL65BQFQ5BZNCHZAXJ3MXYZVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAIGXRKK7VC3XDOEMQFV2CXPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYJTMWCTXFGEXIJROOUS3RTR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3H6F7B7TNC37JA4IVZO6XQOHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBPM2NNYSREB3BVSNXHRFTHDLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EVWTG5VEFBBPBDNKVDSXG4WUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DL65BQFQ5BZNCHZAXJ3MXYZVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAIGXRKK7VC3XDOEMQFV2CXPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. 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To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBPM2NNYSREB3BVSNXHRFTHDLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EVWTG5VEFBBPBDNKVDSXG4WUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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This is €20,000 more than the maximum charged for homes in Oscar Traynor Woods in Coolock, Dublin 17, the Dublin City Council affordable purchase scheme that drew criticism for high prices when it went on sale last July.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZDIEBA66NFXFJDCQ25SV4RT7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878245},"content":"The high price of homes in Shanganagh means purchasers can have incomes exceeding €111,000 and still qualify for State housing subsidies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DREWS3IZFCZPIRUN3IPP3PBN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878246},"content":"For those on lower incomes the State will sink up to €165,000 in a subsidy and take as much as a 30 per cent equityin the home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRCKOROFLJFCFNFYUKPZ4LDEWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878247},"content":"Unlike the State-subsidised cost-rental scheme, which has after-tax income limits for eligible renters of €66,000 in Dublin and €59,000 elsewhere, the affordable house purchase scheme has no standard income limits. Instead, income eligibility is related to the market price of each house.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDRP5UVQJLFDUIYFFKMHGFN2VU","additional_properties":{"_id":"YKKNFXMPGBG4JAOVXNYJN2IY6M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J3IXD4IMMZCEZDB6RNQGY5I6OQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878248},"content":"In Shanganagh, the most expensive three-bedroom house has a market value of €550,000. The minimum equity the council will take is 10 per cent, leaving the buyer to come up with €495,000. The buyer must have a 10 per cent deposit and a mortgage of four times their gross income, which in this case means the buyer’s income could be up to €111,375.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YF4B4GCBQZCQJI2SV7VAG2DG5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878249},"content":"To allow people on lower incomes to apply, the council will invest up to 30 per cent in an equity stake in the house, which using this formula would involve the council taking a €165,000 stake, the buyer paying €385,000 and having an income of €86,625. However, to widen income eligibility, the council will allow the buyer to contribute an additional €42,500 outside the mortgage process. This would allow buyers with a minimum salary €76,000 to buy the house.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRVENQKJLZEGBKSFLDQHPU5ATI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878250},"content":"Similar calculations apply for the smaller houses in the scheme. The cheapest two-bed has a market value of €478,000, making it available to a buyer with a maximum income of €96,795 for €430,200 or a minimum of €66,000 for €334,600. In this last scenario, not only does the buyer have to fund a deposit of €33,460 – more than half their income – they would also have to find another €37,140 to make up the mortgage shortfall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EEEBGGP5BRH2FEFQV3DGSVTPCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732814878251},"content":"Despite the high prices, the council received 974 applications for the first 51 homes, the highest number of applications yet received for any affordable purchase scheme. 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Seven or eight years ago, a quarter of the spaces in the car park of the US insurer, Allstate in Pennyburn in Derry, overlooking the river Foyle, were filled by Southern-registered cars. Today, just 8 per cent of Allstate’s employees in Derry are from the Republic, or, more accurately, from Donegal, just a couple of miles away.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XO5U33HJE5HFFJT3QYGYG22XFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732697574791},"content":"“A lot of companies here are seeing the same,” says Allstate executive, Aidan O’Kane. The US insurance giant has been vocal as part of the Cross-Border Workers Coalition along with Seagate, Ibec and the Confederation of British Industry in seeking change.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXURATJTDVEY7JUZ3OANEUS5PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531832},"content":"“We have great talent built up in Derry over 25 years,” says O’Kane, the director of Allstate NI’s IT operations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Y2XP4LPTVC3DKEWVWSTPE7FGM","additional_properties":{"_id":"3JZZGOPHSJECPIOQP3VKOE7ENE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5SIEDVHQ2NDIPKGOCEN7FLJ5PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531833},"content":"“This is one of the most important talent centres we have. We’ve invested more here. 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It says the relaxation of rules during the Covid pandemic that allowed people to work remotely should be brought back and made permanent,, while Northern employers should not have to run a separate payroll in the Republic for its workers living there.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7NFARTRNZGE5JWBXHPRVV45VU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531836},"content":"However in 2021, the government’s tax strategy group ruled out making the Covid relaxations permanent, saying it would be “impracticable from a legal perspective and challenging from a statutory footing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"27TWHM7EZBDBRBP6DPRBOLY23Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531837},"content":"Ibec executive director, Fergal O’Brien says the island should be exploiting the fact that it is heading towards having a nearly four million-strong labour pool.","type":"text"},{"_id":"642YC4SPBBECRID3OSJZHV5DBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531838},"content":"“We should be making a big deal of the fact that we now have a labour market of scale, with all of the skills and expertise that go with that and present that as a joint investment offering,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOWKVGVZXZK37OWGUERLCPQZS4","additional_properties":{"_id":"7OEEEMB76BFNLG32IRXDPSS6VI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5745FFF3BFG3FG6UQFBOWZJSZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531839},"content":"Around 20,000 people declare they cross the Border daily, or weekly, to work which, he says, is “very low, and much lower than one would expect, particularly with the changes to the world of work of recent years”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6JRTLVFDVNBIXCUMWUCFNYZ5V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531840},"content":"Part of the reason is that operating dual payroll systems as currently required is expensive. 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My NI colleagues [can] work from home while I am forced to commute to an empty office to work as I would at home over Zoom, Teams etc,” said one Donegal resident working in Derry for three years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2RBSVYBFFEWXKNAVU2Z724WZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531845},"content":"O’Brien says that experience means it is becoming more difficult to hold on to staff. “Where they are retaining them, they’re essentially facing an inequity of treatment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQFCLGI3Y5H5DM2QGWDTUFZXPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727121409},"content":"The problem has impacted employers and workers in Border counties most acutely, and most especially in Donegal “but it can affect people anywhere on the island”, he says","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJYVNFKY45CFDC2ONXSBDYXJLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531841},"content":"The problems are not just confined to remote working, says Rose Tierney. “Small businesses and cross-Border employers must comply with complex taxation rules designed for large, international operations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6WRXLYFVZBNFEEEDP2O7NT3MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531842},"content":"“For workers who live on one side of the Border and work on the other, the complexity of dual payroll and the lack of pension tax relief are difficult and costly for both employers and employees to navigate,” she goes on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZNQ3KMXI7JERDE7GOWF5UN4X5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531843},"content":"The Department of Finance in Dublin has been cautious about change, and any conversation around reform must take place between Dublin and London, not with Stormont, since it does not have taxing powers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5KZMXZSZBF3DO4ACP52XZPJFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531848},"content":"Other European Union states with land borders have found solutions. Belgium and Netherlands have agreed bilaterally that cross-border workers can work at home for half of their working week without complications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQZ7GLFXPZHUXDV7NKHU3E5S4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531849},"content":"Spain and France have agreed a simpler arrangement. Cross-border workers resident in Spain are only taxable in Spain’; those resident in France are only taxable in France.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFJIJ2HIYNDNZAVGOGYGH5Z3HQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531850},"content":"Switzerland and France have also reached an agreement, though the rules vary depending on the Swiss canton, while Belgium and France have rules for cross-border workers living with 20km of their border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJ3YXNKALJGKLIUMTFEM5MK53A","additional_properties":{"_id":"UOVUFGF2VRB6DKVFHR7ARLZCSU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"G4RHYIRWPVFBZDHZYGTCQ43ZZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531851},"content":"The issue was examined this month in a report based on independent research commissioned by the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF) Shared Island Working Group, funded by the Irish government, and co-authored by Tierney. Highlighting a 2001 North South Ministerial Council report, the LEEF report noted that the barriers existing then were well understood, including tax and security, skills and qualifications, transport, cultural issues, among others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPQNVHYYGZE5RLWJ5F6UMTGC6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531853},"content":"“In 2024, many of the findings of [that] research still apply and arguably have become more complicated, with [the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union] and changing work practices,” the LEEF authors noted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6MXBMDL6RGA7EKYURBB5ABJVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531854},"content":"Some employers have decided not to hire more cross-Border workers, while some multinationals have warned that the smaller available labour pool is making it more difficult to compete for future investment within their organisations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32BX7FAS7FHWPF3NNBDONGJXWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531855},"content":"The changing climate is beginning to become visible in job adverts where companies now warn in advance that remote working is allowed “in this jurisdiction only”, says Tierney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQPZBXMD3FCWTKRT3AA2BOCKIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531856},"content":"One large indigenous Northern Ireland company that expanded into the Republic is now “regretting the decision because of the challenges it faced in terms of the mobility of workers needed to work on both sides of the Border”, the report records.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHHPAS3R4ZAGXPEYH5HJBPLNPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531857},"content":"An additional problem is that both employers and workers struggle to find the right information and “indeed those providing advice and support to them do not always know where to access advice and/or then understand/interpret and apply the advice”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5OXHCK3TXFCYPHIEY5QVURWQ64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531858},"content":"Sometimes, one professional source told the LEFF report’s authors, “the situations are so complex they did not know what question to ask, let alone the answer they were seeking”. The information failures “can have significant repercussions – involving costs for workers and employers, noncompliance penalties because the rules aren’t understood and/or they become too difficult to comply with”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGDTHXV5O5GCNKCMFTZYBLRL4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531860},"content":"If tax is a difficult area, pension rules are a nightmare. Tax relief on pension contributions for cross-Border workers happens only in very limited circumstances, while the report’s authors found evidence of “double taxation on transfer of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs)”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQTFW5WFMJDZVLSOVZY4XRLMAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531862},"content":"Employees appear baffled by auto-enrolment pension rules. There is nothing to stop a worker living in the Republic but working in Northern Ireland from joining the UK auto-enrolment scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSJZSDMMEZHGNHG5BD4R3AWDWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727121426},"content":"“However, based on current rules, they would not be entitled to tax relief on their contributions in [the Republic] and could be taxed on the employer contributions as additional salary or benefit in kind,” they warned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZX6VZMNG5NC63CWSGXSGX7J7FY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531864},"content":"Clear guidance is also needed on the Republic’s version of auto-enrolment which comes into operation next year to ensure that Northern-resident workers are not taxed on the employer or State contributions by HMRC.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKEQJN4XRZFZJGHNOZ4XBKL32Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531865},"content":"Two-thirds of workers surveyed have no idea of the tax rules, as shown by the fact that fewer than 2,000 workers living in the Republic apply for transborder workers relief.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQ67OBBNC5CT3PY23Z3ILUBLMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531866},"content":"“To be honest, there are thousands of cross-Border workers who aren’t filing returns. That’s part of the problem in counting the numbers because a lot of people are flying below the radar,” says Rose Tierney.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6BW7BATRQ5ERLJIIWZTYFVNVKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531867},"content":"The tax outstanding might be small, due to double taxation treaty credits and the transborder relief, but it is difficult to get political traction to change rules when so few are currently affected, even though simplified rules could benefit far larger numbers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TT5FRHKDRAB5O5OVEYYV5TJCI","additional_properties":{"_id":"TRAOTFD225HCJCUJFKTHJM32YM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LPWYGFXPOJET7ICB5MXA44UQH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531868},"content":"Ingenuity is being displayed, too. Some workers are travelling to remote work hubs just over the Border that are nearer to their homes than their place of employment, but comply with tax rules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNUO4VEBCRAQPEJNKZZUTWGIYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531869},"content":"However, it is not just about tax. The need for dual payrolls creates knock-on complications for mortgage applications, welfare benefits, income protection insurance. Badly handled, employers can end up with corporation tax issues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUO7RVO2B5HQTEXNRC27ERIQYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531870},"content":"And then there are the pension questions. There is no tax relief on pension contributions for cross-Border workers, except for employees physically posted out of the jurisdiction who continue contributions to their existing pension scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAHH55BPQRDMLEG47KVD7WHJ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531871},"content":"“If you just take up a job across the Border and you make a pension contribution through the employment, you do not get tax relief in your home country on that contribution,” Tierney says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SOCDSZPNBH27FBT36ZSE2UZGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531872},"content":"Such rules make pensions a questionable investment for cross-Border workers, she continued, which makes little sense given that people are encouraged to plan their retirements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQKL6Z7H75D2XJXADTV552US7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531873},"content":"The LEEF report also highlighted the difference between private-sector cross-Border workers and those working for government, or public service organisations. Cross-border commuters working for public bodies are taxed by their employer and have no concerns about extra Revenue or HMRC bills because of Article 18 of the Anglo-Irish double tax treaty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PT2STWE52ZA3LPWWBDQOGQYXPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531875},"content":"“However, what doesn’t appear to be widely known is that, as soon as these workers start working remotely from their home jurisdiction, the complications about tax filing and dual payroll applies to them, too,” says Tierney. This affects local authority workers, and teachers as well as higher-ranking civil servants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWBBBZXYXNCJ3AATTVE3B2XWG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531877},"content":"So what solutions can be found?","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6TFBFZMIFFNVNGMDOIDBXSDXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727121440},"content":"“It wouldn’t in my view take a lot to fix the pension problem,” Tierney says. “It would [need] a tweak to the current treaty. Of course, that’s bilateral, so London and Dublin need to agree.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRNRIJ3YHZHVTIEYY3PZ6O7SHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732198531878},"content":"Other countries have set minimum thresholds for the number of days that can be worked at home without triggering the need for dual payrolls, including setting minimum social security thresholds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7L4YCLCSCVHVJFEDWOQG6I757E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727121442},"content":"Under social security rules within the European Union, the obligation for all social insurance contributions shifts to the jurisdiction where the worker is living, not working when just 25 per cent or more of the duties of employment are carried out there unless the terms of a local bilateral deal override that provision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ACFOPO37JFGONO4KQE2AMY4DNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732722121663},"content":"Under European Union rules, Ireland is due to increase this to 40 per cent, but it is not clear yet whether the UK will follow suit: “This is an avenue that should be explored,” said the tax expert.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Hennessy"}},"name":"Mark Hennessy"}]},"description":{"basic":"Companies are increasingly wary of hiring cross-Border workers because of tax, pension and payroll issues, report warns"},"display_date":"2024-11-28T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"One Border, two systems, endless complications: ‘My NI colleagues work from home while I am forced to commute to an empty office’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"},"basic":{"display":true,"text":"Common Ground","url":"/common-ground/"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HQ63SZWJNJGO5L7RE7N3ZWTVAA","auth":{"1":"373487bf134421b47b69a1e82a822c818ffb2970331ccd9553439b15c941d563"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HQ63SZWJNJGO5L7RE7N3ZWTVAA.jpg"},"overline_logo":{"_id":"DKIH44HW7VAH3JYCUZFCY2EZM4","auth":{"1":"3621094a80576cd9edf9549c0d2d7a76011c5f5dcb887e8390b004644bcf2848"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DKIH44HW7VAH3JYCUZFCY2EZM4.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/economy/2024/11/28/one-border-two-systems-endless-complications/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"DD767OOIZFGKJFHSVKSXG7IKUA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":382,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1d75d30e-df51-4c43-b3cc-01e3837366f6/versions/1732789115/media/274c5575724df57d237098c1fc5bf76a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/2024/11/28/donal-ryan-wins-an-post-irish-novel-of-the-year-award-for-heart-be-at-peace/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JFIVIEGQ7VAZ5LDNF5FUVGBZ5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732263619673},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donal-ryan/\" target=\"_blank\">Donal Ryan</a> has come out on top again at this year’s Irish Book Awards. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/#:~:text=The%20panoramic%20portrait%20of%20a,acquainting%20the%20reader%20with%20the\" target=\"_blank\">Heart, Be at Peace</a>, described as a “companion” to his Book of the Year-winning 2012 debut, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/district-with-the-downturn-blues-1.550244\" target=\"_blank\">The Spinning Heart</a>, has won this year’s Novel of the Year Award. He also won in 2020 with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/strange-flowers-the-prejudice-of-rural-1970s-ireland-shrewdly-captured-1.4325839\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Flowers</a>. “Ryan gets the tricky act of the sequel just right,” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/20/heart-be-at-peace-by-donal-ryan-companion-novel-to-the-spinning-heart-returns-to-the-approach-that-won-him-such-acclaim/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times review</a> said, admiring how his 21 characters’ storylines “dovetail to an absorbing, empathetic story of a community in trouble”, the crisis this time caused by drugs, not the financial crash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ATG3P5WDBGD7GICYRT675XUNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203449},"content":"This could be the year of the sequel.<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/roddy-doyle/\" target=\"_blank\"> Roddy Doyle’s </a><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/14/the-women-behind-the-door-by-roddy-doyle-catch-up-with-paula-spencer-gets-to-the-dark-heart-of-an-ireland-that-hides-behind-jokes/\" target=\"_blank\">The Women Behind the Door</a>, the third in a trilogy, and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/colm-toibin/\" target=\"_blank\">Colm Tóibín’s</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/28/long-island-by-colm-toibin-brooklyn-sequel-brings-eilis-back-to-enniscorthy/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island</a>, his follow-up to Brooklyn, also made the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/10/24/irish-book-awards-2024-shortlist-sally-rooney-roddy-doyle-colm-toibin-david-mcwilliams-and-more/\" target=\"_blank\">shortlist </a>for Novel of the Year. Long Island is neck and neck with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/claire-keegan/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Keegan’s</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/small-things-like-these-by-claire-keegan-a-timely-and-powerful-book-1.4695247\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things Like These</a>, published first in 2022, to be Ireland’s bestselling book of 2024. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sally-rooney\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Rooney’s</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/09/21/intermezzo-by-sally-rooney-a-bold-adventurous-and-captivating-addition-to-an-impressive-body-of-work/\" target=\"_blank\">Intermezzo</a> is in third place. Rooney won this year’s Author of the Year Award.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZEL74YJINNDMBJVXQLD2WXYIAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203450},"content":"Clair Wills’s exploration of her family’s and Irish society’s guilty secrets – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/01/27/missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets-by-clair-wills-family-fables-hidden-truths/\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets</a> – is 2024′s Non-Fiction Book of the Year. The Irish Times review called it an “utterly engaging, fearless and acute memoir”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHU5TW2QSNGTTABX5LCR65C6GU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732723177596},"content":"Former Irish rugby captain <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/johnny-sexton/\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Sexton</a> won Sports Book of the Year with his autobiography, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/10/12/obsessed-the-autobiography-by-johnny-sexton-one-of-the-best-irish-sports-books-ever-written/\" target=\"_blank\">Obsessed</a>, pipping Conor Niland to the post, despite the former tennis player having just won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for his memoir, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/22/the-racket-by-conor-niland-lonely-tennis-locker-room-conveyed-with-deft-touch/\" target=\"_blank\">The Racket</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITAAAZJGEBGV7LUOGZ2OJZSUQM","additional_properties":{"_id":"SAM4LHF26VBKFFN6Y5FZJKZQ3Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SPNM7AGYJNAWPGC7S2UIQXQZDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203451},"content":"Jane Casey won Crime Fiction Book of the Year for her latest Maeve Kerrigan mystery, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/03/24/new-crime-fiction-a-stranger-in-the-family-the-rumor-game-how-to-kill-a-guy-in-ten-ways-day-one-and-what-happened-to-nina/\" target=\"_blank\">A Stranger in the Family</a>, while Alan Murrin won newcomer of the year for his debut novel, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/05/14/the-coast-road-by-alan-murrin-small-town-shenanigans/\" target=\"_blank\">The Coast Road</a>, set in the run-up to the 1995 divorce referendum, about women searching for independence in a claustrophobic society that sought to limit it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMRZ73CLKZE3RFH6GAODDMW77Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203452},"content":"The full list of winners","type":"header"},{"_id":"T4FVSANAQ5C7LF6VLWKCCRLJMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203453},"type":"list"},{"_id":"6UDXMG4OF2ILWRXWVLYEELVKYU","additional_properties":{"_id":"S6EBVUVIXBAA5CB3DIYP4XBLKM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"T4FVSANAQ5C7LF6VLWKCCRLJMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203462},"type":"list"},{"_id":"B2E6IV7XMZHOXPPVVBNIYD3EAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"G2IG3HPZ7ZDKDPNJBSAIJSNL2Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XCCRYXO5FJFALIWPG4VOSNIES4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203474},"content":"“The An Post Irish Book Awards has firmly become a cornerstone of the Irish literary landscape and we’re incredibly proud of the collaboration and passion that has driven its success,” said Larry Mac Hale, chairperson of the An Post Irish Book Awards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3WRHAA7QJCDHO6BCWIOABEHZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732726750826},"content":"“This past year has seen an exciting array of Irish books published, showcasing not only the voices of renowned authors, but also introducing fresh, exceptional talent who are enriching Ireland’s literary tradition.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEREKTRH3ZHU3HPDB6PGHALLUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203475},"content":"Author Paul Howard, best known for his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/ross-ocarroll-kelly/\" target=\"_blank\">Ross O’Carroll-Kelly</a> series, was given a Special Recognition Award to acknowledge his contribution to the Irish publishing industry over the past 25 years. His Ross books have sold more than 1.5 million copies. While <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/08/24/dont-look-back-in-ongar-ross-ocarroll-kelly-says-an-emotional-unexpectedly-touching-farewell/\" target=\"_blank\">Don’t Look Back in Ongar</a> is the last of the series, his popular character lives on in his Irish Times column every Saturday. A four-time Irish Book Award winner, Howard has also ghostwritten a number of autobiographies and co-wrote <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/roddy-collins/\" target=\"_blank\">Roddy Collins’s </a>memoir <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2022/10/22/the-rodfather-few-have-lived-a-life-this-full-and-rich-and-are-able-to-tell-the-tale/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rodfather</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLTXIJ4MENDWTFDYYD4MABNXCI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ET4AQEXHBNGCJF2QPOX3VS5HOU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LC2MHWPND5A7XOLP5GZ56SVRUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203476},"content":"Martin Waddell received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award. The first children’s writer to receive the award, he is best known for Owl Babies, illustrated by Patrick Benson, and the Little Bear books, illustrated by Barbara Firth. He joins distinguished recipients including <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/anne-enright/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Enright</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sebastian-barry/\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Barry</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/eavan-boland/\" target=\"_blank\">Eavan Boland </a>and Colm Tóibín.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYJWCCZ2MZALFKB5LN4WYUAHYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732719203477},"content":"This year’s An Post Irish Book of the Year, selected by judges Maria Dickenson (chair), Madeleine Keane, Cyril McGrane, Elaina Ryan and Alex Clark, will be revealed during a one-hour television special, hosted by Oliver Callan, on RTÉ One on December 19th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Martin Doyle"}},"name":"Martin Doyle"}]},"description":{"basic":"Sally Rooney, Graham Norton, Johnny Sexton, Jane Casey and Paul Howard also among winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards"},"display_date":"2024-11-27T23:04:35.72Z","headlines":{"basic":"Donal Ryan wins An Post Irish Novel of the Year Award for Heart, Be at Peace ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DT6AFCSR66WYRFD7O44MFFDMEI","auth":{"1":"49496800452cd84d8a1b6f2eb0c2ff5ce724d5285125bd53cdcfab234d34ff5f"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DT6AFCSR66WYRFD7O44MFFDMEI.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Culture"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Books"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/culture/2024/11/28/donal-ryan-wins-an-post-irish-novel-of-the-year-award-for-heart-be-at-peace/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/culture","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Culture"}}}},{"_id":"UDOUZEKGXNDT7P7ZOUCARMHRNE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":101,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/fd1af43f-88bd-4361-895b-89949bef687f/versions/1732742238/media/508a8e0e8c44f1248256c921fd1c7f95_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/2024/11/27/man-dies-in-multi-vehicle-collision-in-wexford/","content_elements":[{"_id":"U7UMTQ4MIZHFNJKSLXLQYU4JCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732742238105},"content":"A man has died and three people were injured following a multi-vehicle collision in Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/wexford/\" target=\"_blank\">Wexford</a> on Wednesday evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GJWR3BY4EVAJLPOLL55WHDP3EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732742238106},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/road-safety/\" target=\"_blank\">collision</a> involving at least three vehicles – a truck and two cars – occurred at about 5pm on the N11 between Olyegate and Crossabeg. 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McGregor denied any wrongdoing but a jury awarded Ms Hand almost €250,000 in damages for assault.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTAFW3JFBVG5XNYIPRUQGZIIEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720690},"content":"Now comes the reckoning. From McGregor’s perspective, the outcome of the civil case is bad for business. Commercial partners found McGregor’s mix of bravado and chaos compelling because the “notorious” image he cultivated was cast to be attractive to young men. However, the response to the High Court ruling shows he now has a serious problem.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANZ43LMIIVCVFK3HQI3CNDKUME","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720691},"content":"When the good times rolled, McGregor seemed to make extraordinary amounts of money with ease. His reported pay cheques are counted in the hundreds of millions of dollars – and his own lavish expenditure was part of his personal branding.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FAMKY3R6BFFZKUKFP3BWY2V64","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720692},"content":"He is said to have received some $100 million (€95.4 million) in 2017 from his boxing defeat in Las Vegas to Floyd Mayweather. The bout itself generated more than $600 million from pay-per-view TV sales, ticket sales, sponsorship and merchandise, a vast sum.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E54GT54TU5GPDMG5O6YD55MYSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720693},"content":"But McGregor’s earning power transcended sport. After an initial Proximo investment in 2018, the 2021 sale of the whiskey brand is said to have yielded him $130 million. Proximo went on to introduce a new brand last year, Proper No. Twelve Irish Apple, and cited McGregor’s imprimatur for a drink he expected to “crush the competition”. Proper No. Twelve was still listed among “McGregor brands” on his personal website on Tuesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P3V2XKGCBG2XFU4R6KTIOVO5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720694},"content":"Proximo is not the only international group to turn away from the fighter. Danish video game company IO Interactive has signalled it will no longer work with him. In addition, British supermarket chain Tesco has dropped Proper No. Twelve from Irish and UK stores. SuperValu, Centra, Costcutter and Carry Out – and the main Spar wholesaler – also say they won’t supply McGregor-linked products.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSM4OX6UZFBJBKKUJSMMZO7YNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732644720695},"content":"Brand McGregor was always very lucrative. Now he has been branded in a different way by a High Court jury. 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The one time I was away from work for eight months, I missed an opportunity for my family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIHEHWB2X5HIXL2URYIQG2PD6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925303},"content":"“I’m not saying I would have gotten the job – I’m not arrogant – but I would have learned from it [the application process]. That’s all lost opportunity,” Dr Murphy added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPTEMOJCVVBYDKZ56GXJC5ILDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925304},"content":"Dr Murphy’s trade union representative, Nicola Coleman of Siptu, said the university broke its own policy which stated staff on maternity leave “will where possible be notified of vacancies by the head of school”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBNFQSQXJBHWTIDSQNCSSVR6DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925305},"content":"“At no stage did the head of school say there will be a vacancy coming up. There was no communication – she was kept in the dark about it,” Ms Coleman said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4C26C436IFCP7PIMI6AJ7TVXF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925306},"content":"The university, which was represented by Laura Kerin of Ibec, countered that the wording of the policy made it discretionary and that as Dr Murphy still had access to her emails she was treated no less favourably than anyone else in the university.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOJ6W63WRNGTZI27WPUX7S5P5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925307},"content":"Dr Murphy said she was absent on maternity leave from June 2023 to March 2024 – and only learned upon her return to work that there had been a new assistant professor in social sciences who had secured a permanent appointment at the school of nursing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IQAKSH6OFAPDLEDKMBCE2TUXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925308},"content":"Dr Murphy said that when she quoted the maternity policy to the college’s HR department, the response was that there was “an obligation [on] employees on any kind of leave to familiarise themselves with vacancies” as there was a “high volume” of posts being advertised and it was “not always possible for line managers to reach out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4WTWIPM7JEHFD526Y6HN4EMG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925309},"content":"“I just felt like they were completely gaslighting me and telling me I hadn’t a right to be told directly,” Dr Murphy said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJUCGRSUS5D27OFVMSB2QTLSGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732647752313},"content":"After some engagement between Siptu and DCU, she complained to the WRC in May this year, the tribunal was told","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4ME6DCZAJA3FKA2MKMA2MRPQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732645925310},"content":"“I don’t want to be seen as a troublemaker. 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Ostensibly, they aim to provide choices to citizens and a means of making comparisons between the various political party offerings. The reality is that they vary significantly in the information they provide, and are often a measure of a party’s available resources and sometimes their expertise. Some provide details of the cost of their proposals, others do not. Very often the figures quoted will be disputed. Despite their shortcomings, they provide a reasonable idea of the thinking within political parties on various topics and to that extent they are useful.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBZIMB63PRECNPREQBLTFZABPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"To provide a comprehensive account of the various party documents (particularly those from the larger parties) is not the aim of this article. Rather, we offer an analysis of the stances taken by various groups on two of the most pressing issues affecting the education system: teacher supply and educational disadvantage. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNSUGNAFWNH7FCK36MRAHLEY7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Both are complex and intractable issues which have been affecting the education system for some time and both have been identified by international bodies, including the OECD and the EU, as in need of urgent attention. The two issues intersect as, during a teacher supply crisis schools serving disadvantaged areas suffer the greatest impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJ36DLZYPJFANMTAEEO7T6SYLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Teacher supply","type":"header"},{"_id":"C6AOS67KDZAQVESRQP4JSKAMA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"An issue we have written about <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/06/13/teacher-shortages-are-jeopardising-childrens-education-where-are-the-urgent-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\">at length</a> over the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2022/11/25/too-many-young-people-are-being-taught-by-unqualified-personnel/\" target=\"_blank\">past five years,</a> including in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/our-teacher-supply-problem-isn-t-new-it-s-been-growing-for-almost-a-decade-1.4739320\" target=\"_blank\">these columns</a>, there has been a growing teacher supply crisis hitting both primary and post-primary schools for about 12 years now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PWQS35NOMZBDTJBWBB3OO6XM64","additional_properties":{},"content":"In addition, there has been a more long-standing problem at post-primary level, whereby principals find themselves having to assign out-of-field teachers to teach particular subjects. Out-of-field teaching is the practice of assigning teachers to positions for which they do not have suitable qualifications.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OS4NU3PZJFA3J3H3PBCKBZLB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This practice was identified as a “constraint on true professionalism” in an OECD review of Irish education published in 1991, and acknowledged as an issue in the 1992 Green Paper, <i>Education for a Changing World</i>: “While, ideally, teachers should teach only their final degree subjects, it is not considered practicable to introduce such a requirement at this stage.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CDYZS26HFZGKTO4T3SUZVYDQRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Unfortunately, more than 30 years later, out-of-field teaching is still a widespread problem, exacerbated in recent years by the supply crisis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LEYNAE6TFH35POHM6A7TOZ4QE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The issue of teacher supply receives fairly limited attention in the various party manifestos, and none at all in the case of some. Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats all commit to measures to encourage those teaching abroad to return. Suggestions as to how this is to be achieved vary, but there are references to recognising service abroad and salary calculations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGU7L3TPKNBUJBOBUNLMDOEQ5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aontú provides more detail on its proposals under this heading, promising to provide a grant to those returning together with a tax concession. Sinn Féin also commits to making full-time permanent posts more quickly available, a strategy which would certainly help, but is unlikely to have a transformative impact. Fianna Fáil (FF) promises to devise a system whereby Stem teachers can be shared across schools. Similar initiatives have been tried in the past but with limited success due to the complexities of school timetabling. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCJWB64SEZGVVCWCHANG2IAUIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In summary, these proposals, while helpful, are insufficiently ambitious to solve the crisis. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TIN7K566JAQHIZ7QHMA74CKNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Labour proposes to establish a teacher staffing taskforce to consider the matter and then act on its recommendations. Obviously, this would not have an immediate impact and the experience of the Teacher Supply Steering Group in the last seven years gives little grounds for optimism. However, if a genuinely independent expert group were established, and its recommendations implemented, this might prove to be a significant development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV235LWZKBHFTH3MIEFVO4CWC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Educational disadvantage","type":"header"},{"_id":"W3HR4X3YUJBVFMQZLTGO7FQRI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The policy response of the Government to the issue of educational disadvantage has been to adopt a policy of positive discrimination, whereby additional resources are allocated to schools that cater for students, or really for high numbers of students, from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF4NVQY3VVDTPK7LVPNIWW7KNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This response is crystallised in the Deis programme, launched in 2005. Since its inception, the scheme has operated on the basis of grades of educational disadvantage at primary level: band one (the most deprived), band two and rural Deis. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"67QBRPRK2JFK7GQPH6SHGZD6GE","additional_properties":{},"content":"At post-primary level just one grade obtains. While no one would expect the Department of Education to devise a bespoke model suitable to each school, the argument has been made repeatedly that a more extensive range of grades is required. In particular the notion that all post-primary schools serving deprived areas are experiencing the same level of disadvantage does not stand up to any serious scrutiny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZCKE4T2OVE5JHB4Z2HB36EU4Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2006, <i>School Matters: The Report of the Task Force on Student Behaviour in Second Level Schools</i> (the Martin Report) was published. Among many insightful observations the report observed: “The accumulated evidence before us and substantiated in a vast body of literature, is that there are considerable numbers of students in our schools who have mental health difficulties that may not be school related in their origin.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDFOXHZ2ENHAPL7NK5ZRAFXLBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If that was accurate then, it is even more so now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2QD5TJWMFDYVIKW4ZNJ7XWSIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Martin Report recommended the setting up of multidisciplinary support teams to work with schools on behavioural and wellbeing issues. Other than a small pilot scheme, this suggestion was largely subsequently ignored. Yet, the reality is that schools serving the most disadvantaged areas are attempting to provide support to students and families far beyond the range of expertise and resources available to them. In recent years, the term “Deis+” has been employed to advocate for the provision of additional resources needed to make up for the inadequacies of the Deis scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4PHTQ4Z55DAZCEEMWMLU4VTY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those advocating for improvements to Deis have first-hand knowledge of what is required. Many have pointed to the strengths of the model currently being provided as part of the North East Inner City Initiative. When it comes to reading the manifestos of the various political parties, their position on educational disadvantage is not as clear as one might expect. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TWG6ZXJ6MBHZ3IKSYRXOWK64VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Six parties (FF, FG, Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats and People Before Profit-Solidarity) commit to the introduction of a Deis+ model, with little or no explanation of what they understand Deis+ to be. Pertinent questions which are not addressed include: what additional services will be provided to how many schools?; does this apply at both primary and post-primary level?; how are participating schools to be determined?; what percentage increase, if any, would be applied to the modest Deis budget as currently exists? ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FU3MW76NDBGRRHBZLFNMBO5XGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many would argue that an independent evaluation of the Deis programme is long overdue but there seems little appetite for such an initiative. It’s as if Deis+ has become a convenient alternative to detailed independent thinking on the part of the political parties and, to a certain extent, it is being used as a slogan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NW7NYNZ3IBGL7GMXJXFUOONUWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Equity in education","type":"header"},{"_id":"HC5GGLW5RRDPHPXC5XH3REXCXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the time of writing, it seems almost certain that the programme for government which emerges from this electoral process will be negotiated between either one or two of the three main parties in consultation with some of the smaller groupings. Heading into the election, the stances taken by the various political parties on two of the most pressing issues affecting the education system provide little grounds for optimism. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDWNMFGBJZDFVGE3P3DR2RJX44","additional_properties":{},"content":"On the teacher shortage issue, whilst some useful initiatives have been proposed, there is little sign that the problem will be tackled in any fundamental and comprehensive way. It appears that the political and administrative class is happy to tinker around the edges until changing demographics “solve” the problem. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LM2M75Z4SJD23E5TNBSUGVHHXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"There may be some reason for very cautious optimism in relation to educational disadvantage but, as pointed out, the commitments lack detail. A lot will depend on the negotiations that take place, the subsequent choice of minister for education, whether the next taoiseach takes the necessary steps to ensure a multi-departmental approach, and whether equity in our education provision becomes a real priority for government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWAHRKOMDVDS7BXJNLCVXTHM54","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Dr Brian Fleming and Prof Judith Harford are academics at UCD’s school of education</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTJJJR7SKRCUJKNK2PCIU5A5ZA","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Brian Fleming"},{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Judith Harford"}]},"description":{"basic":"While useful initiatives are proposed, there is little sign staff shortages will be tackled in a fundamental way. 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