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“Amnesia” gaffe over Coughlan’s health portfolio
In an amazing feat of collective amnesia last night on TV3′s popular Vincent Browne Show, not one single member of the five member panel, including the current Fianna Fáil health spokesperson, Billy Kelleher could remember that former Donegal Tanaiste Mary Coughlan was the last Fianna Fail Health Minister.
Donegal’s Tanaiste is North West’s biggest election casualty
Tanaiste Mary Coughlan was the biggest casualty of the mass heave against Fianna Fail in Friday’s General election. She lost her seat to Independent Thomas Pringle, in one of the many upsets that have occurred throughout Ireland in the last 48 hours. In her home constituency of Donegal south west, Pearse Doherty of Sinn Fein topped [...]
Tanaiste says she is still running in election
In a statement that was issued just after midnight last night, Tanaiste Mary Coughlan said that she had every intention of contesting the Donegal south west constituency for one of the three seats. In a short, terse and brief announcement, the statement reads: “The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, has [...]
Donegal Coughlan’s promises to 400 schools stretches credibility
Donegal based Tanaiste Mary Coughlan’s announcement that 400 projects are to be given the green light under the school building project, represents the first cynical campaign promise in an election that hasn’t even been called yet, Labour party’s Education spokesperson Ruairi Quinn has said. “The days of making such grandiose promises to hundreds of communities around the [...]
Coughlan will not contest leadership of FF
Tanaiste Mary Coughlan this evening declared that she was not interested in seeking the leadership of Fianna Fail at this time. She said that she expected other potential leaders to emerge in the coming hours, other than those who have already declared. These include former Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Martin, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan [...]
Mary Coughlan running the country as Election set for March 11th
Up here in the north west, it looks like Tanaiste and Minsiter for Education Mary Coughlan is running the country, after she was also given the title of Minister for Health and Children this afternoon by Taoiseach Brian Cowen. It comes on the day that Taoiseach Brian Cowen finally announced the day of the next [...]
Tánaiste approves funding for Letterkenny IT expansion plans for LYIT
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, TD has approved funding to Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) in Donegal to purchase two separate parcels of land to allow for the future growth and expansion of the Institute. Announcing the move on a visit to the Institute today, the Tánaiste said: ‘These [...]
Tanaiste claims to have “another 20 years” in her
Tanaiste and Donegal south west TD Mary Coughlan believes she has “at least another 20 years” in her, after she was selected to contest a seat in Donegal south west at a hastily arranged Fianna Fail selection convention in Glenties yesterday afternoon. She will be joined on the general election ticket by Senator Brian O’Domhnaill, whose [...]
Tánaiste welcomes funding for local animal welfare organisations
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D., has today welcomed news that €13,000 is to be made available to two animal welfare organisations in Donegal South West. The “Animals in Need” organisation based at Claredon Drive in Donegal Town has been approved for €12,000 with the remaining €1,000 being allocated [...]
Dramatic week in Donegal politics
Donegal remained firmly at the top of the news agenda throughout Ireland this week after political events here could have a dramatic bearing on how long it is before the next general election. The first indication that a week was a very long time in politics came with the announcement that former FF Minister and Donegal North [...]
Tánaiste turns sod for extension to St Francis NS
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, turned the sod for the development of a new classroom at St Francis National School, Barnesmore outside Donegal town last evening, (Thursday, August 26th). There has been a 34 per cent increase in enrolments at St Francis National School over the past five years, [...]
Donegal South west bye election writ no show – Govt to defend challenge
The High Court in Dublin is expected to be notified by the Irish government today that it will defend a challenge over its refusal to move a writ for a bye election in Donegal South West. Donegal Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty brought the challenge earlier this month and the case is listed for mention this morning. [...]
Reform of process for recognition for new 2nd level schools – Tanaiste
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, has announced a significant reform of the process for recognition of new second-level schools. The new framework to be established by the Tánaiste will involve the setting out of clear criteria against which new second-level school applications are to be assessed and will [...]
Infrastructural works to start on Killybegs Tourism College
Work is expected to be completed this year on infrastructural works at the Killybegs Tourism College, Co Donegal, after the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, approved funding for the project. The works at the Tourism College in Killybegs are among the projects which start construction this year as part of the [...]
Tánaiste welcomes inclusion of Donegal schools in Summer Works Scheme
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D., has welcomed the addition of two further Donegal schools in the 2010 Summer Works Scheme. Already some 50 Donegal primary and post-primary schools in Donegal have been included in the 2010 Summer Works Scheme which saw a record level of investment announced with [...]
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