Frank McNally

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18 October 2026 11:15

“Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who himself found Leinster House depressing, wrote of it: ‘A poor country housemaid I brought with me [from Kildare] cried for two days and thought she was in prison.’”

The Irish Times

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17 October 2026 17:59

Conversations on a Homecoming: Frank McNally on returning to the Dáil after a 20-year absence

Frank McNally

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16 October 2026 16:02

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Tomás Murray

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16 October 2026 14:20

“The seat at the back of a shed that was a suntrap. Naming these things is the love-act and its pledge; For we must record love's mystery without claptrap, Snatch out of time the passionate transitory.”

Frank McNally

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14 October 2026 18:09

“It was a balmy October day outside, with a gentle breeze still negotiating severance terms for the leaves left on trees. But inside the Dáil, the looming public service strike provoked chilly exchanges and Opposition predictions of a ‘winter of discontent’.” www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...