# Back Around The Table
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This year 2025
Last year 2024
# Political Awards
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- This year, The Journal team announced its political awards via The Candidate podcast.
- We hand out a number of gongs for awards such as the Minister Who Gets Shit Done, the Must Try Harder Merit and chat about the Ah Here Moment of the Year and Whoopsie of the Year.
- The top award, Politician of the Year, was put to a vote which was counted by PR-STV.
# The Big Interview
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# The Big Interview
Mary Lou McDonald: 'I can safely say 2024 was the toughest year of my life'
Apart from her party not performing as she would have wanted in the election, McDonald has experienced personal challenges this year.
# BID FOR THE ÁRAS
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# BID FOR THE ÁRAS
McDonald says 'multiple people' capable of leading Sinn Féin as she rules out presidential bid
A run for the presidency is not on the horizon for McDonald, she tells The Journal.
# Government Formation Talks
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# Government Formation Talks
Regional Independents pivot towards power while rotating Taoiseach now a certainty
The term time for the rotating Taoiseach is yet to be decided.
# Frederick Street South
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# Frederick Street South
Suspicious package sent to Social Democrats HQ in Dublin found not credible, say gardaí
Hayes, a TD elected to Dublin Bay South, was suspended with immediate effect from the Social Democrats parliamentary party this week.
# Government Formation Talks
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# Government Formation Talks
FF and FG deputy leaders meet as big question mark hangs over 'parity of esteem'
Who will be the third wheel of government is yet to be decided.
# New Kids On The Block
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# New Kids On The Block
FF and FG to debate next moves today - as possible Independent Alliance 2.0 waits in the wings
- Galway East TD Sean Canney says there is a myth out there that Independents only deal in parish pump politics.
- Wexford TD Verona Murphy says she has no bad blood with Fine Gael.
# Let's Talk
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# Let's Talk
Who's going into this government, then? And who gets to be Taoiseach - and for how long?
Sources say Fine Gael will push for a rotating Taoiseach deal, while Labour are viewed as a preferred option, but option still open for independents.
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# Ge24
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# Ge24
Who's 'jiving' into Government? No clear answer as gloves fail to come off in final TV debate
McDonald says FF and FG can’t be allowed ‘jive’ their way back into Government Buildings.
# Conscious Uncoupling
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# Conscious Uncoupling
Kate O'Connell looks to eat FG's lunch in Dublin Bay South but party exit coming up on the doors
Independents could be the kingmakers after the next election and O’Connell says she will back a FG/FF led government.
# Bray Campaign Trail
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# Bray Campaign Trail
Mary Lou told she's the only person that could 'take on Donald Trump' next St Patrick's Day
The Sinn Féin leader was in Bray Co Wicklow yesterday where she visited homeless and youth mental health charities.
# Ge24
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# Ge24
Sinn Féin promises mini-budget, property tax abolition and reducing president's term to 5 years
- Sinn Féin says it will abolish student fees if in government.
- The party will legislate to ensure that civil servants are held accountable.
# Doesn't Take The Biscuit
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# Doesn't Take The Biscuit
Micheál Martin hasn't eaten a biscuit in 30 years and other insights from a canvass in Rathmines
The bike shed, rising rents, disability services and the cost of childcare were all raised with the Tánaiste and Jim O’Callaghan.
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Labour lash out at FG sick leave U-turn as cracks emerge between prospective coalition partners
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had been eyeing up Labour as possible future partners in government, if the numbers added up after the election.
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