Irish Politics, Politicians in Ireland, TDs, Irish Government

Winners and losers

Seen on The Honest Hack

One of the biggest shocks of the election, for me at least was the defeat of Green Dan Boyle in Cork South Central. Dan was a hardworking TD and an excellent front bench spokesperson for the party and is a nice … as you can get seems to have taken its toll. Boyle simply didn’t have the time to keep his local profile... Continue reading »

Dan Boyle Eliminated

Seen on Irish Election

Dan Boyle Eliminated Writes Cian of Where’s Me Country? on May 26th, 2007 Read More: Cork South Central Green Party TD Dan Boyle is eliminated in Cork South Central... Continue reading »

Post Your Voting Intentions

Seen on Cian’s Blog

Mine are: 1. Green Party (Dan Boyle) 2. Fianna Fáil (Micháel Martin) 3. Fine Gael (Deirdre Clune/Simon Coveney) / PDs (John Minihan) The first preference is hardly surprising. I don’... Continue reading »

The Empire Strikes Back

Seen on The Honest Hack

It seems my analysis of the election campaign is about as accurate as the government’s PPARS budget … McCarthy raft on the River Lee recently. The South Central debate was interesting too. Simon Coveney... Continue reading »

Fianna Fail are looking for my vote in Cork South Central

Seen on From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace

Fianna Fail are looking for my vote in Cork South Central Micheal Martin’s canvassing team called this evening. Two lovely men in pullovers listened to me hold them up on the doorstep. “I’... Continue reading »

Batt O’Keeffe podcast

Seen on Dec's Rambling

A couple of weeks ago Tom Rafferty asked on his blog for questions that would be put to Minister of State Batt O’Keefe in a series of podcasts … . The podcast is up and the questions were put to Batt directly as they appeared on Tom’s blog and... Continue reading »

Conor O’Neill: @TomRaftery - wondering why the Batt O’Keeffe podcast is not up on his site yet. He claims it’ll be up on April 28th.

Seen on Twitter / conoro

Conor O’Neill: @TomRaftery - wondering why the Batt O’Keeffe podcast is not up on his site yet. He claims it’ll be up on April 28th.... Continue reading »

Someone doesn’t like Noel O’Flynn FF North Central TD

Seen on Damien Mulley

Or Batt O’Keeffe for that matter: Batt O’Keeffe blogging blogs fiannafail ireland irishblogs irishelection.tv irishelection2007 politics... Continue reading »

Here we go again…

Seen on Viscera

I don’t know about you but I am finding it incredibly difficult to get worked up over the upcoming general election in Ireland … insurance, Medical Practitioners Act, PPARS, FISP, Micheal Martin, health portal, the North East... Continue reading »

Atomic P.R say that internet users wont vote

Seen on Roam4free

Fine Gael P.R representatives Atomic P.R announced this in yesterday Irish Times Stephen Quinn of Atomic explains: “Online will be a small part of the campaign. Online is cheap, but the people who are looking at it aren’t likely to vote on election day.” In the name of **** are these people on something?, hopefully Simon Coveney and Gerry... Continue reading »

INSIDE POLITICS - SIMON COVENEY’S CINEMA AD

Seen on Harry McGee

One of my leath-bhádóirí in our office in Cork rang me to tell me about this. You might be impressed by the billboards of Eugene Regan in Dun Laoghaire, or the Fianna Fail blitzkrieg of the country. But for pure production values, Simon Coveney’s slick 29-second ad(being shown in cinemas in Cork) takes the political Oscar for biggest spend of... Continue reading »

Simon Coveney (FG) exhorts young cineastes

Seen on VoteTube

Simon Coveney (FG) exhorts young cineastes Posted on March 29th, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video, Politician’s Videos. Running in the picture palaces of Cork, this ad has somehow made its way to us here in VoteTube land. And, I think, it’s rather good. The message is almost all delivered by ordinary looking young Cork people- not... Continue reading »

Why the jobs are going

Seen on The Irish Savant

So the jobs carnage in our internationally-traded sector continues unabated, with Proctor & Gamble just the latest in what will be an ongoing trend. Uninformed and so-called independent commentators (i.e. from banks and brokerages who are paid to talk up the economy) will tell you that the overall level of employment is constant, if not rising.... Continue reading »

Friday evening Q&A session

Seen on The Green Party / Comhaontas Glas

The convention proper kicked off with a panel of invited speakers and Green Party representatives addressing questions put to them from the floor. The topics ranged from work-life balance, education, migration, the housing market, and the role of the Irish cow in combating climate change. As well as Cllr Bronwen Maher (in the chair), Dan Boyle... Continue reading »

Not a first

Seen on mopti

The Committee of the Regions has to be one of the two most obscure elements of the EU “legislature” (the other one has to be the Economic and Social Commitee). Heck, it doesn’t even legislate, it just opines. So W(hy)TF is breakingnews.ie reporting the unengrossing fact that some councillor I’ve never heard of used Gaeilge at/in it today? And... Continue reading »

A Home of Your Own

Seen on Cuffe Street

“Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Francie O’Brien’s pen” announced Dan Boyle shortly before we broke up last December. He’s right too. Senator O’Brien’s card and pens arrive like clockwork every year, just as the festive season starts, and it seems to work for him. Of course in recent years Senator Mary White has upped the ante with her... Continue reading »

Mairead McGuinness must have recorded the longest …

Seen on Harry McGee

Mairead McGuinness must have recorded the longest parachute flight in world history before she alighted in Louth on Wednesday. Since becoming the MEP for the East constituency in 2004, there has been one project that she has pursued relentlessly - the further elevation of Mairéad McGuinness. For months now, there has been an artificial ‘will she,... Continue reading »

VHI & RISK EQUALISATION.

Seen on Irish Election

VHI & RISK EQUALISATION. Writes SOS of Irish Election on November 24th, 2006 Read More: Uncategorized, Health If my memory serves me right, about three years ago, the VHI seemed certain that Micheal Martin, the Smokers’ Friend, would grant them Risk Equalisation. Immediately, Vincent Sheridan, the CEO of the VHI, set out his plans for... Continue reading »

Burma Charity Off to a Great Start

Seen on Kinsale Times - The UnOfficial Kinsale, Ireland Website

The opening night of the Burma exhibit was a great success with all the local glitterati in attendance. Justin Kilcullen; Trocaire, Padraig Fitzgerald and Simon Coveney; TD (pictured) were on hand to unveil Cork photographer Philip Daly’s work. Due to popular demand, the Burma photo exhibition will be extended until Nov 18th at the Blue Haven... Continue reading »

VoIP Telecom Alert for 31-10-2006

Seen on Etheral Voices: today's scoop on VoIP's top twenty companies - Keeping the noise out of news and insights

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheal Martin TD today announced that Avaya Inc., a global market leader in business communications and IP Telephony, is to establish an R’D Centre of Excellence at its Irish headquarters … [www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessn…] … MetroFi or Silicon Valley Metro Connect... Continue reading »

Europe’s Second-class citizens

Seen on Planet Parker

It has been announced that workers from Romania and Bulgaria will not have an automatic right to work elsewhere in the EC, when the two countries join next year. Why have they been allowed to join so, if their citizens are to be effectively second-class citizens of the European Union? I feel that this is a violation of a fundamental, and I mean... Continue reading »

Winning Team meet Minister

Seen on F1 in Schools Ireland

Last week the Minister for Trade Enterprise and Employment, Micheal Martin, met with students from St Ailbe’s School, Tipperary to launch the 2007 Formula 1 in Schools Technology Challenge powered by Honda. The students were members of Blade of Fire team who came first in the 2006 races, and were about to fly out to the UK to see the Honda... Continue reading »

MEPs call for allegations of organ harvesting to…

Seen on Status of Chinese People

MEPs call for allegations of organ harvesting to be raised Posted by chinaview on September 8th, 2006 EPP-ED Group, press release, 07/09/2006- MEPs Edward McMillan-Scott, Simon Coveney, and Charles Tannock have today called for the EU to raise allegations of organ harvesting for sale at this weekend’s EU-China summit. In July, David Kilgour,... Continue reading »

Coveney Stands Up For Trafficking Victims

Seen on Ball Of Wax

Coveney Stands Up For Trafficking Victims Irish Examiner> Breaking News> Sport: “Temporary residency permits should be offered to people trafficked into Ireland for cheap labour or sexual exploitation, it was claimed today. Fine Gael MEP Simon Coveney called on the Government to consider including the measure to aid trafficked women in... Continue reading »

Call for temporary residency for trafficking…

Seen on Business Travellers Against Human Trafficking

Call for temporary residency for trafficking victims in Ireland. Irish Member of the European Parliament, and host of Business Travellers against Human Trafficking at the Parliament, Simon Coveney has called on the Irish government to offer temporary residency permits to all victims of trafficking into forced labour and sexual exploitation.... Continue reading »