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Green TDs learned of six-month suspension via text messages just minutes before media was told

The Green Party told TDs Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello they were suspended for six months via text message only minutes before a media statement was issued, it has emerged.

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Fionnán Sheahan Opinion Smug and dismissive attitude to maternity hospital critics adds to project suspicions

‘He commented that the lease / licence arrangements effectively excluded influence from the nuns, the Pope, the ayatollah or anyone else.”

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Dublin needs a directly elected Lord Mayor as part of local government reform, says Hazel Chu 

Former lord mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu said the capital needs a directly elected mayor and that it should go “hand-in-hand” with a “massive” reform of local government. 

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New Lord Mayor: Dublin needs to be a safer and better place to live in 

Dublin’s new Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland says she will look at the city over the coming year “through the lens of women, minorities and the LGBT community” in order to make it a safer, more inclusive place to live.

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Newlyweds: Lord Mayor Hazel Chu says she was ‘nervous with excitement’ ahead of wedding

Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu has said she and her new husband, Green Party TD Patrick Costello, were “nervous with excitement” ahead of their wedding at the Mansion House yesterday.

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Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu confirms Dáil bid with Greens

Dublin Lord Mayor and Green Party Chairperson Hazel Chu has thrown her hat into the race for the Dáil, she has confirmed to the Irish Independent.

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Greens drop call for party chair Hazel Chu to stand aside during Seanad by-election

The Green Party’s national executive has thrown out a motion calling on Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu to stand aside as party chair during her Seanad by-election campaign.

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Green Party’s row with Lord Mayor Hazel Chu drags on despite peace bid 

The Green Party’s damaging and very public row with its chairperson and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, is set to continue.

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Green Party bid to defuse damaging row with Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu set to fail

Green Party efforts to find a compromise in a high-profile dispute with its chairperson and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, are set to fail.

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I need to do this for my daughter, says Chu on running for seat

Green Party Chairperson and Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu has admitted that while the chances of her winning a Seanad seat are slim, she has put herself forward for her daughter.

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The Floating Voter: Hazel Chu - I may not win a Seanad seat but I’m running for my daughter

Green Party Chairperson and Dublin Lord Mayor has admitted that while the chances of her winning a Seanad seat are slim, she has put herself forward for her daughter.

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Green Party group call Chairperson Hazel Chu’s position ‘untenable’ within party

The Galway branch of the Green Party have written a letter to Chairperson Hazel Chu, saying that her position within the party is “untenable”.

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Confidence vote deferred by Greens over party chair Hazel Chu's Seanad run 

A motion of no confidence in Green Party chairperson Hazel Chu has been deferred at tonight’s parliamentary party meeting.

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‘Diversity must be celebrated’ - Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu explains Seanad solo run

Green Party Chairperson and Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu is running as an independent for the Seanad because she believes there needs to be more women and minority representation on the ballot.

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Hazel Chu secures nominations to run as an unofficial Green Party candidate for Seanad by-election

Lord Mayor of Dublin and Green Party chairperson Hazel Chu has secured nominations to run as an unofficial Green Party candidate for the Seanad by-election.

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'It's the fear of what might happen' - Hazel Chu, the Lord Mayor of Dublin who doesn't feel safe walking the streets of her city

Hazel Chu is happy and chatting with her hands wrapped around a 'Little Mrs Lord Mayor' mug when the doorbell rings. She goes to the window and sees a man standing outside. Her mood dims. She calls her husband, who is collecting their three-year-old daughter from creche. She is alone in the house and reassures him she won't open the door.

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Restaurateurs Derry and Sallyanne Clarke join Dublin Mayor Hazel Chu for Christmas organ donor awareness campaign

Michelin star restaurateurs Sallyanne and Derry Clarke, the parents of a 16-year-old deceased organ donor, teamed up with Dublin’s Lord Mayor Hazel Chu to promote the Irish Kidney Association’s Christmas awareness campaign.

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Social Democrats look to woo Dublin mayor Hazel Chu from the Green Party

The Social Democrats have approached Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu about defecting from the Green Party, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

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Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu objects to 'unduly hasty' 100-bed Donnybrook co-living space

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Hazel Chu has claimed that the plan to construct a 100-bed shared living space on the site of Kiely’s pub in Donnybrook “is unduly hasty and poses serious health concerns” in the context of the Covid pandemic.

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Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu beeped at while lying on the road after falling from bike

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Hazel Chu has told of how she was beeped at by an impatient bus driver while she was lying on the road after falling from her bike in the city on Saturday.

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'She's brave' - Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu on woman who was allegedly racially abused and pushed into canal

Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu has called for increased garda efforts into preventing racially motivated crimes after a woman was reportedly racially abused before being pushed into Dublin's Royal Canal by a gang of youths over the weekend.

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'My kid got called a mongrel' - Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu says her family have suffered racial abuse in Dublin

Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu said that she and her family have suffered racial abuse in Dublin.

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Green Party's Hazel Chu elected Lord Mayor of Dublin

Green Party Chairperson and Dublin City Councillor Hazel Chu has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.