They should have put this shadow in the middle of the Azteca. Football heritage. #worldcup
Sinn Féin’s stance on abortion is set by its Ard Fheis - followers with long memories will remember that its TDs had to abstain on the original ‘12 weeks’ proposal at the Oireachtas, because this policy went further than the party’s Ard Fheis could permit …
Sinn Féin is using its Dáil time next week to introduce legislation abolishing the 3-day waiting period for an abortion before 12 weeks of pregnancy.
(Yes, this was a provision of a bill that SF didn’t support only last month. There is a procedural explanation to this… 🧵)
There are 174 members of Dáil Éireann. 29 of them - one-in-six - disclose second jobs or running other businesses on the side.
If they think they can juggle both, fine, good luck to them – but why, then, do almost every single one of them think public consultants can’t do private nixers too?
hearing the competition voiceover reference the date of the World Cup final
I was five months from being born.
With SF members at least having already approved the abolition of the 72-hour waiting period, SF TDs will be able to vote in favour of their own bill this week.
Government TDs will again have a free vote, and based on outcomes of similar previous free votes, the final outcome could be *very* tight
That meant the overall bill went beyond what party members had ever been asked to approve, leaving the TDs unable to vote in favour of the SocDem proposal
Notably, SF announced its own bill - doing the first, but not the second - within days of the SocDems putting them on the spot with their own
…and the SocDems bill last month had two major provisions: abolish the 3-day wait, and expand the criteria for fatal foetal abnormality (currently defined as not surviving more than 28 days after birth).
SF members have previously approved the first but have never debated/voted on the second
This speaks to a broader jockeying of position within what are now the two leading parties of the left - SF’s announcement of a Dáil motion on the Israeli soccer fixtures, came a day after the SocDems announced a similar one, effectively stealing their thunder because the SF one is scheduled first