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The party name and election symbol represents 'grassroots'– the name contains the Bengali word trinamool, which literally means grassroots, and the symbol is a sapling emerging from the ground. [97] The symbol is known as Jora Ghas Phul (Bengali: grass and flower; two flowers with grass). [98]
The party was founded in 2016, by Justin Barrett as party president and James Reynolds as party vice president. The National Party had planned to hold its press launch in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin but the event was cancelled by the hotel, [13] which subsequently said it had done so for "public safety reasons". [14]
The National Alliance is an electoral alliance in Ireland formed to contest the 2024 Irish general election. It consists of three far-right and nationalist political parties: the National Party, Ireland First and The Irish People. Some independent candidates are also included in the alliance. [1] [2]
On 18 September 2023, the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 (c. 41), also known as the Legacy Act received royal assent. [ 309 ] The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has raised concerns about the legislation's incompatibility with the Human Rights Act 1998 . [ 310 ]
It was an Irish government of Fine Gael, the Labour Party, Clann na Poblachta, Clann na Talmhan and the National Labour Party—and one TD who was an independent, James Dillon (who had resigned from Fine Gael after opposing Ireland's neutrality in World War II).
Barrett was a National Party candidate for the Midlands–North-West constituency at the 2024 European Parliament election, [65] in which he received 4,086 (0.6%) first preference votes. [66] His wife Rebecca Barrett was a National Party candidate in the Dublin constituency. [67] Neither of them were elected.
The Oireachtas (/ ˈ ɛr ə k t ə s / EH-rək-təs, [1] Irish: [ˈɛɾʲaxt̪ˠəsˠ]), sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the bicameral parliament of Ireland. [2] The Oireachtas consists of the president of Ireland and the two houses of the Oireachtas (Irish: Tithe an Oireachtais): [3] a house of representatives called Dáil Éireann and a senate called Seanad Éireann.
People Before Profit–Solidarity (PBPS or PBP–S) [11] is a left-wing electoral alliance in Ireland. It was formed by members of two socialist political parties, People Before Profit (PBP) and Solidarity. [1] [3] Solidarity was known as the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) until 2017. [12]