Fine Gael News

FINE Gael ministers are defending Justice Minister Alan Shatter as the row over his use of information about Independent TD Mick Wallace deepens.

A new opinion poll just out shows gains for Sinn Fein at the expense of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail.

Inishowen TD Charlie McConalogue has warned Donegal homeowners they could be hit with a 15% increase in the property tax as early as next year.

Sinn FA©in Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald will take part in a debate on Irish Unity in Crossmaglen tomorrow evening with representatives from Fianna FA il, Fine Gael and the Ulster Unionist Party.

CONTROVERSIAL TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and a Fine Gael senator marked themselves present at Leinster House while they were on an all-expenses-paid trip to Morocco .

A douuble celebrattion in Ballyshannon! Big Chief sings not only Happy Anniversary but also Happy Birthday at the celebrations in Dorrian's Hotel where Seamus and Rosaleen Langan celebrated their 30th.

Now, something similar seems to happen with the Irish Labour Party . That party was originally founded in the early twentieth century by the fighter for workers' rights and national hero James Connolly .

TWO men are being held by gardai after Minister of State Paul Kehoe 's constituency office and a Fine Gael party organiser's office were allegedly burgled and set on fire.

Fine Gael Tipperary South TD, Tom Hayes, has welcomed the decision taken by the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney TD, to extend the imported fodder transport scheme for an extra week.

EUROPEAN Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton is now indicating she will now vote for the abortion legislation when it comes before the Dail.

The community of Ballinamore town and the wider South Leitrim area were deeply saddened and are mourning the death of Mrs Tess Reynolds, who passed away last Saturday, May 4. The late Mrs Reynolds was for over 50 years landlady of Reynolds's Pub known locally as Pat Joe's. Tess was the wife of the late Pat Joe Reynolds, former Fine Gael TD, ... (more)

THE Government has started working out the detail of a contingency plan to make a 300m cuts from the public sector pay bill if there is no agreement on Croke Park II.

LIFE group of women who regret their abortions is receiving support in its bid to address the Oireachtas committee examining the X Case legislation.

FINE Gael is planning to soften up the public on the cuts and taxes in Budget 2014 with a hard-sell of the party's economic policies on the eve of its announcement.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny hit back at the Catholic hierarchy's threat of excommunication for TDs who vote for the abortion legislation.

Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan has said that party members who oppose abortion legislation will be able to seek amendments.

Fine Gael backbenchers who disagree with the draft abortion legislation say they want to be able to repeal the law if the number of terminations increases significantly.

Divisions and tensions within Government over the abortion legislation have escalated after the intervention of the Catholic bishops, with both sides now targeting the upcoming committee hearings to make amendments to the controversial bill agreed last week, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

Paddy McKillen's struggle to save his property empire doesn't look like ending amicably any time soon, writes Tom Lyons Alan Dukes, the wiry, steel-haired former Fine Gael minister for finance, surveyed the black granite and wood boardroom table on the top floor of Connaught House, No 1, Burlington Road.

A woman holds a poster during a vigil in Dublin November 17, 2012, in memory of Savita Halappanavar and in support of changes to abortion law.