“People have come to me in tears, behind in their repayments, admitting that they voted for the Government parties believing their promises to provide extra mortgage interest relief.”     Willie O’Dea TD says the most recent quarterly mortgage arrears statistics released by the Central Bank underline the need for

 Limerick Fianna Fáil TDs Niall Collins and Willie O’Dea have met the receivers appointed to Mr Binman at Leinster House in Dublin today, and have secured assurances about the future of jobs at the company.   Deputies O’Dea and Collins sought the meeting with KPMG’s

Over 200,000 workers need legislation to protect conditions     Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation Willie O’Dea TD has published the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011, a Fianna Fáil Bill, which will be brought before the Dáil this evening in Private Members’

THOUGH Enda Kenny’s poor performance over the whole sorry Roscommon Hospital saga may have reawakened a lot of question over his leadership, it has also highlighted an entirely different aspect of this Government’s approach. Since it came to power in a blaze of confidence, the

I am probably one of the few people in politics today who really knows what Denis Naughten was going through last week. I had a comparable moment of truth over 20 years ago when I was faced with a similar choice to the one that

POLITICAL history suggests that Labour ministers usually don’t start to distance themselves from their government colleagues until the last few months of a government. This is why their absence from the Dail chamber last Tuesday came as a bit of a surprise. It also suggests