Micheál Martin
The Public Record
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August 11, 2026
I think we need to be careful of these stories, who's feeding them into the ether? Why?
— Micheál Martin
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by number of sourcesIt has far greater reach than what was there before, in terms of the US for example.
It will be of benefit to elected councillors and will give them a greater degree of powers.
It's important that when the people elect councillors that they have the decision-making capacity, in the local context, to get things done for their communities.
I would express Ireland's solidarity with the victims of the weekend attack on the Berlin Pride festival that killed one person and injured at least 29 others.
If you look at the plant in Dunkirk, about 70% of its material comes from Aughinish.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has insisted that any assessment of exports from Aughinish Alumina must be independent of the company.
For us, it would be for the Commission, in my view, to potentially commission that type of independent assessment as well.
Bessborough is of huge importance to many people and families, at home and abroad.
I am profoundly sorry that two former public representatives from my party so comprehensively failed to defend and protect young children from their nephew and cousin.
These are scientists and people with expert knowledge – they’re not politicians – who meet to assess drugs.
It went through a lot of interactions before that, which could have been quicker, in my view, on the part of the company.
I want to apologise to those men, Jason Clancy, Paul Walsh, Kevin Keating, Colin Power, Barry Murphy, Simon O'Toole and Gerard Mullane.
You waived your anonymity in order to ensure that the heinous crimes of Bill Kenneally were exposed and that other young boys were protected.
It obviously won't be easy. There are very different views around the table, both about how we raise our money, and how we spend it.
I certainly will take the issue that you've raised in respect of this letter that was written by him in the 1970s forward, and see how best to examine that.
We need to be economically competitive in order to sustain the European way of life.





