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Prime Time debate: Nobody likes Von der Leyen and four other takeaways from European election specialThe politicians were not entirely in full accord. Veteran Fianna Fáil senator Ned O’Sullivan, a long time critic of Sinn Féin, said the party could not condemn what was happening in Gaza without condemning those who murdered Detective Jerry McCabe.He told the Upper House that if Hamas released their hostages in the morning “I believe we would have peace and we would get a ceasefire.
He said he and other senior members of the Jewish community had met President Higgins the previous Friday. He said that was undoubtedly true but that President Higgins had not taken other important points from the meeting. The NCH project has been bedevilled by delays and overruns with costs now running close to €2.5 billion. There have been ongoing disputes between the board over seeing the project and the main contractors, BAM.when blaming BAM for the delays. He claimed the company had “not resourced this project sufficiently for quite some time”.
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