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13 May
Prime Time Investigates - will this exposé of a collapsed child …
An article about Barry Andrews seen on justlikeaman.blogspot.com
Taoiseach Brian Cowen has told the Dáil that new Minister for Children Barry Andrews will be following up with the HSE the findings of last night's RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme on children at risk, says this story on RTÉ. …... Continue reading »
A Good Reason to Vote No
An article about Ruairi Quinn seen on irish-lawyer.com/journal
On Newstalk on Saturday (10/5/08), Ruairi Quinn responded to a complaint from Ulick McEvaddy about the opacity of the Treaty. He suggested that when buying a house or an airplane (UMcE has bought quite a few Boeing 707s), …... Continue reading »
On Having Good Reasons, or Why a Real Debate is Desirable
An article about Lucinda Creighton seen on irish-lawyer.com/journal
Sloan). If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. (George S. Patton). (Note to Lucinda Creighton TD.: now would not be a good time to observe that both of these quotations were by Americans, and dead ones at that.)... Continue reading »
09 May
Irelands Eurobore
An article about Ruairi Quinn seen on killianforde.blogspot.com
Ruairi Quinn TD will be speaking today at the National Forum on Europe. The theme will be “Why I never had a real job, but know everything, about everything, ever”. Actually the theme is about “Social Europe”. I have always found Ruairi …... Continue reading »
08 May
Minister Gormley visits Fota House
An article about John Gormley seen on fotahouse.com/news
Mr John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, today (21 April 2008) visited Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens and paid tribute to the Irish Heritage Trust’s achievements at Fota since it took over …... Continue reading »
07 May
Beaglers told to assume end to season extensions
An article about John Gormley seen on banbloodsports.wordpress.com
… there will be no further extensions to their hunt season. This very much welcomed development was revealed in a letter from Environment Minister, John Gormley’s office. ICABS has renewed its appeal to the Minister to fully […]... Continue reading »
06 May
Getting serious
An article about John Gormley seen on yesterdaysfuture.net/blog
In his opening address to Dublin’s Convergence 13 conference, Irish Minister for the Environment John Gormley captured an increasingly common theme in smart government approaches to sustainability: the need for citizens and elected …... Continue reading »
Home Bound, Carbon Lite
An article about John Gormley seen on grandgesture.blogspot.com
Minister John Gormley is ready with some simple suggestions to help us all decrease our contribution. 1. Become a vegetarian. Eat only vegetables, and you can reduce the amount of CO2 that you exude. Avoid meat and the world will …... Continue reading »
05 May
Bikes for billboards
An article about John Gormley seen on wowblog.co.uk
Split applications, dubious rezoning maps, and the Bord rejecting all “Metropoles”: to add to this the Dublin City Business Association has written to Minister John Gormley asking him “to investigate”. The only question is what’s next? …... Continue reading »
“It must be considered exceptional…”
An article about John Gormley seen on sluggerotoole.com
The Irish Times today predicts [subs req] that the Republic of Ireland’s Environment Minister, John Gormley, is expected to make an order putting the Woodstown archaeological site in Co Waterford, unearthed in 2003, on the Record of …... Continue reading »
Gormley: Viking settlement artefacts to remain buried
An article about John Gormley seen on archaeonews.blogspot.com
A plan for research at the 1000-year-old Woodstown site outside Waterford city is to be drawn up, but Minister John Gormley accepted the recommendation of a working group that the area not be fully.... Continue reading »
01 May
Ireland embarrassed in front of the Neo-Con Moonies
An article about Lucinda Creighton seen on semper-idem.eu
Seriously, our old chums Libertas have put out a statement today arguing that a story in the Washington Times today about Lucinda Creighton’s highlighting of Libertas’s backers association with the US military establishment embarrasses …... Continue reading »
30 Apr
Playing the anti-American card
An article about Lucinda Creighton seen on irisheagle.blogspot.com
Fine Gael's Lucinda Creighton has managed to make some news in America today, stealing a little bit of Bertie's spotlight. The Washington Times has a report today on Creighton's recent “web posting” on the Fine Gael web site. …... Continue reading »
Human Rights and Political Wrongs
An article about John Gormley seen on jbwan.com
Then there was the recent episode of Questions and Answers on RTE television, following on from the comments made by John Gormley of the Green Party in relation to Tibet and the controversy that it caused. I was shocked at the response …... Continue reading »
Fine Gael takes the Irish People for Fools
An article about Lucinda Creighton seen on come-on-sense.livejournal.com
Lucinda Creighton herself is registered as an attorney-at-law in the state of New York and has worked in the USA as a campaigner for the Democratic Party, despite being a Councillor - and now a TD - for Fine Gael in Ireland and also …... Continue reading »
26 Apr
AONTAS Second Adult Learners' Festival (part 2)
An article about Ruairi Quinn seen on nearfm.ie/podcast
… with contributions from Minister for Lifelong Learning Sean Haughey TD, Green Party Spokesperson on Education Paul Gogarty, Senator Pearse Doherty from Sinn Féin, Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes and Ruairi Quinn, Labour Spokesperson on …... Continue reading »
22 Apr
UNESCO status is only a distraction
An article about John Gormley seen on independent.ie/opinion/letters
I AM writing in relation to Environment Minister John Gormley's calls for the Tara Skryne Valley to be considered for nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List (Irish Independent, April 12).... Continue reading »
21 Apr
Anti-Dublin incinerator campaign call for all concerned to attend …
An article about John Gormley seen on peoplebeforeprofitdse.wordpress.com
CRAI has sent a legal summons to the Minister for the Environment John Gormley, the Irish State and Dublin City Council to answer the charge in court regarding their failure to enforce EU Directives in relation to the planning and …... Continue reading »
20 Apr
Oi, Rock This!
An article about Barry Andrews seen on cuffestreet.blogspot.com
It's hard to be the guinea pigs, but there we were, Barry Andrews, Senator Eugene Regan, and Cllr. Dennis O'Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council trying to explain what we do and why we do it. …... Continue reading »
15 Apr
The Extraorindary Effect of John Gormley
An article about John Gormley seen on everydayispaddysday.blogspot.com
John Gormley, and indeed his Green colleagues, are pretend politicians. They are in Government because the experienced boys in Fianna Fail think it makes them - Fianna Fail - look good. They think it gives them 'green' credentials. …... Continue reading »