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Colm Keaveney arriving at Tuam District Court in October 2024

Former TD's drug driving case further adjourned

Proceedings against a former TD, accused of drug driving, have been adjourned to a future sitting of Tuam District Court in Co Galway.

Connacht • 29 Jan

Last year, a total of 7,870 children were waiting for occupational therapy nationally

Concern over lack of early intervention teams

Figures released by the HSE indicate there are no early intervention teams in the Dublin region and parts of Cork for children in need of speech, language, occupational and physio therapies.

News • 07 Feb 14

Former Labour deputy Colm Keaveney alongside Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin outside Leinster House

Ex-Labour TD Colm Keaveney joins Fianna Fáil

Former Labour Party TD Colm Keaveney has said it is a great honour for him to have joined Fianna Fáil.

News • 04 Dec 13

Colm Keaveney has been a consistent critic of Labour's performance in Government

Colm Keaveney resigns from Labour Party

Labour Party Chairman Colm Keaveney has resigned from the party saying he could no longer go along with what he said was "increasingly like a political charade".

News • 26 Jun 13

Colm Keaveney defied the party whip in a budget vote

Labour Party meets on Keaveney position

The Labour Party's executive board has met to consider a report into the issues raised by the fact that its chair, Colm Keaveney is now outside the parliamentary party.

News • 21 Jan 13

Colm Keaveney chaired the last meeting of the executive before Christmas

Keaveney refuses to step down as Labour chair

Colm Keaveney has said he will not be stepping down from his position as Labour chairperson at a meeting of the party's national executive in Dublin tomorrow morning.

News • 18 Jan 13

Keaveney vows to 'protect' his position in Labour

Colm Keaveney has reiterated that his intention to remain as Labour's chairman, despite being expelled from the parliamentary party for voting against the Social Welfare Bill.

News • 21 Dec 12

Labour Party whip Emmet Stagg said Mr Keaveney should 'quit forthwith' because his position was no longer tenable.

Row over Keaveney's future as Labour chairman

A row has erupted within the Labour parliamentary party on Colm Keaveney's future as party chairman.

News • 14 Dec 12

Gilmore says 'context' referred to Govt stability

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that a context referred to in an internal Labour email about the resignation of Roisin Shortall as junior minister for health was the need for Government stability.

News • 05 Oct 12

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