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#FRANCE: A Yellow Vest protester’s hand was reportedly blown off during violent clashes in Paris.
#BREXIT: The UK government terminated a contract with Seaborne Freight, a company which has no ships, after an Irish shipping company which backed the deal withdrew its support.
#US: Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren officially launched her 2020 presidential campaign at a rally in Massachusetts, CNN reports.
#UK: Prince Philip has voluntarily given up his driving licence, Buckingham Palace said, weeks after being involved in a car crash.
The annual Late Late Show Valentine’s Special took place last night and was full of romance and cringeworthy moments. The DailyEdge has a roundup of what happened, in case you missed it.
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Leo’s too busy watching Netflix doing research for his next speech .
Abolish it
@☘: they tried.
@☘: we had a referendum in 2013 and the people voted not to abolish the Seanad
@Stephen Kearon: there was massive Seanad reform planned and agreed though. Never happened. I think it’s important to have a 2nd house but all members should be elected by the public.
‘In the end, it’s only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.’
J.R.R Tolkien “Lord of the rings” Leo Varadkar “Phase 2 Announcement”
@Logan Shepherd: if they are gonna quote films they may as well use the best!
@Paul: True, certainly better than all the buzz words. I wish he had credited Tolkien though.
Does anyone other than Labour quislings listen to Bacik?
Once I saw Ronan Mullen’s name as a signatory I am against whatever this group are for!
Well if the Dail has been allowed to sit over the years with various seats vacant and awaiting by-elections without creating a constitutional crisis I can see the grounds for the Senators query as to why they can sit whist in effect also waiting for a by-election of sorts
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