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Justice minister Helen McEntee also told colleagues that officers are trawling 6,000 hours of CCTV footage and vowed that further arrests would follow the 34 already made.
Helen McEntee with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Frances Fitzgerald MEP at the 2019 EPP Congress in Zagreb After Leo Varadkar succeeded Enda Kenny as Taoiseach in June 2017, McEntee was appointed by the new government as Minister of State for European Affairs on 20 June, [ 58 ] a role that involved negotiations with the United Kingdom in its ...
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee wrote on X that "the attack on off-duty members of An Garda Síochána in Temple Bar last night was appalling". She said her thoughts are with the officer who ...
The Minister for Justice has ruled herself out of the running to replace Leo Varadkar as Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach.
31 December – Hate crime legislation came into effect when the minister for justice Helen McEntee signed the commencement order for the Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act 2024. Ireland was one of the last countries in the European Union to enact such law. The Act joined the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 which penalised hate ...
On 13 April 2022, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described the murders as "atrocious crimes" and said she wanted to reassure people and the LGBT community that any crimes motivated by hate or prejudice would not be tolerated and would carry higher sentences.
Following the riot, opposition politicians called for the resignations of the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris. On 1 December, a week after the riot, Sinn Féin announced that they would bring a motion of no confidence in McEntee. In response, the Taoiseach moved a vote of confidence in McEntee on 5 ...
Calls to a rape helpline almost doubled over the weekend following the verdict of the civil rape case against Conor McGregor, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said.