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Leinster House from an illustration of 1757 by John Rocque. Leinster House was the former ducal residence in Dublin of the Duke of Leinster, and since 1922 has served as the parliament building of the Irish Free State, the predecessor of the modern Irish state, before which it functioned as the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society.
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The programme airs every Wednesday and Thursday at around 11:45 during the Dáil term and broadcasts live proceedings from Leinster House of questions posed by opposition leaders in parliament to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste. The programme is on air for around 60 minutes.
As a result, the Free State initially hired Leinster House from its then-owner, the Royal Dublin Society, in 1922, before buying it in 1924. Longer-term plans either to convert the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, into a national parliament or to build a new parliament house, all fell through, leaving Leinster House as the accidental result.
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When, at the December 1969 IRA convention and the January 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, the delegates voted to participate in the Dublin (Leinster House), Belfast (Stormont) and London (Westminster) parliaments, the organisations split. Adams, who had joined the republican movement in the early 1960s, sided with the Provisionals.
Eugene "Gino" Kenny (born 25 June 1972) is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2016 to 2024.