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Fracking company will be invited to answer questions before Oireachtas Committee

A proposal by Leitrim Fianna Fáil Senator Paschal Mooney to invite Tamboran Resources to appear in front of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has been approved unanimously. Read More

Mac Sharry Calls For Emergency Funding For Strandhill Erosion Crisis

Fianna Fail Senator Marc Mac Sharry has called for emergency funding to be provided to address the unfolding coastal erosion disaster at Strandhill Co. Sligo. Read More

Tamboran’s Moorman Dismissive and Disrespectful – Mac Sharry

Senator Marc Mac Sharry has backed Sligo and Donegal County Councils in a decision to ban hydraulic fracturing in the North West. Read More

Mac Sharry calls for substantive action on mortgage crisis

Fianna Fáil Senator Marc Mac Sharry has again called for substantive action on the mortgage crisis which is impacting thousands of families across the country. Read More

Gurteen Community Shocked by Tragic Deaths – Mac Sharry

Fianna Fáil Senator Marc Mac Sharry has offered his condolences following the tragic deaths of three members of a family at their home near Gurteen, County Sligo last night. Read More

Closure of Three Sligo/Leitrim Garda Stations Leaves Communities Exposed to Crime – Mac Sharry

Sligo-North Leitrim Senator Marc Mac Sharry has condemned the closure of three garda stations across Sligo and Leitrim as extreme and unnecessary. The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has announced the closure of Kiltyclogher, Bunnanadden and Drumkeeran Garda Stations next year without giving any operational explanation for doing so. Read More

MBNA losses a further blow for Carrick-on-Shannon – Mooney

Leitrim Fianna Fáil Senator Paschal Mooney has said the latest news that Bank of America/MBNA is to axe 100 jobs in Carrick-on-Shannon will come as another major blow to staff who are already deeply concerned about their future. Read More

Mac Sharry appalled by decision to close Ballymote Courthouse

Sligo Fianna Fáil Senator Marc Mac Sharry has said he is appalled by the decision to close Ballymote Courthouse. Read More

Ó Cuív welcomes national study into the effects of fracking

Fianna Fáil has welcomed the Government’s decision to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study into the effects of fracking before licenses are issued. Read More

Labour’s Strategic Investment Bank finally buried by Taoiseach – Mac Sharry

The Taoiseach has given the clearest confirmation yet of the Government’s u-turn on the establishment of a Strategic Investment Bank, according to Fianna Fáil's Senator Marc Mac Sharry. The Taoiseach in a letter to Fianna Fáil Deputy Billy Kelleher has stated that: “the concept of a Strategic Investment Bank would be difficult to implement in current market conditions.” Read More

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