History of Fianna Fáil History of Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil was founded on 23 March 1926 when a group of Dail deputies led by Éamon de Valera split from Sinn Féin. This happened because de Valera's motion calling for elected members be allowed to take their seats in the Dáil, if and when the controversial Oath of Allegiance was removed, failed to pass at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. The new party adopted its name on 2 April of the same year. From the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932 until the 2011 general election, the party was in
Alex Fein she took over the editorship of online Jewish affairs magazine, Galus Australis. Here and elsewhere, Fein campaigned against the culture of cover up that emerged from the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Fein contended that there was a rabbinic culture inimical to transparency and the rule of law. Fein was also responsible for 'outing' federal politician, Michael Danby, who in the 2013 Federal Elections produced separate 'how to vote' cards which Fein contended pandered to ultra-Orthodox prejudices. The worldwide push to redress systemic discrimination against women in Orthodox Judaism became central to Fein's activism after her