Inside Politics: In China, Micheál Martin takes press questions on situation faced by eight-year-old hostage Emily Hand
Tánaiste Micheál Martin said Ireland had spoken to “all the key interlocutors” in the region about Emily’s situation. File photograph: Collins Dublin
Speaking in Beijing at the start of a four-day visit to China, Mr Martin said Ireland had spoken to “all the key interlocutors” in the region about Emily’s situation. Sinn Féin says it won’t invite the ambassador, Dana Erlich, to its ardfheis this weekend. The Fine Gael Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said yesterday she would havedistancing themselves from a letter written by fellow academics calling for a boycott of Israeli universities
Over in the Seanad there’s a private members’ Bill sponsored by Fianna Fáil senators Malcolm Byrne, Erin McGeehan and Mary Fitzpatrick which would lower the voting age for local and European elections to 16. It would be a surprise to see this become law before next summer’s contests, to put it mildly.
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