Next week, I’m bringing a Social Democrats motion to the floor of the Dáil calling on the government to immediately introduce an Emergency Winter Payment for people with disabilities. We are honoured to row in behind the campaign from a coalition of Disabled Persons’ Organisations led by the Disabilities Federation of Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair…

Tariffs Part 3: What I Learned From a Few Months Shadowing the Dáil’s Enterprise Committee And What It Means for Our Economy Since my last post on this subject, I’ve been regularly attending the Dáil’s Enterprise Committee meetings and met with a lot of business groups both through the committee and outside of it. I…

Here’s an update on the key issues in Dublin Bay South and how I’ve been representing you in Dáil Éireann. Have a read and stay informed!

In the few weeks since my last blog post on Trump’s tariffs, they came in and then were (partially) ‘paused’. You’d be forgiven for thinking the world’s financial markets are suffering from an economic whiplash from it all: some damage done, but not enough to be catastrophic without more trauma. It got me thinking quite…

Trump Country I spent about half of my childhood in a small town in rural Pennsylvania called Williamsport. The town had a long history of industry. Originally it was a lumber town, yielding from the plentiful forests of the Appalachian mountains in which it was embedded, and utilising the river to deliver its produce for…