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13 May

State Neglectful Of Duty To At Risk Children

An article about Alan Shatter seen on jp-ireland.spaces.live.com

Fine Gael's Alan Shatter earlier called for details of the number of children at 'serious risk' who are currently on waiting lists to be published immediately. He warned that children would continue to lose their lives or suffer ... Continue reading »

12 May

Is it plagiarism when you're used to it?

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on unarocks.blogspot.com

Green Ink points out that a piece I wrote in the Tribune on Eamon Ryan being zexy is in the Irish Daily Mirror today. Green Ink calls in plagiarism. When you work in a Sunday newspaper, you become very used to seeing your stories lifted ... Continue reading »

10 May

SBB Aniar: 09 Bealtaine 2008

An article about Tom Kitt seen on rte.ie/rnag/sbbaniar.html

Máirtín Ó Cathain ag caint faoi chúrsaí polaitíochta: Tom Kitt atá ag caint éirí as an bpolaitíocht théis an tréimhse Dála seo & Éamon Ó Cuív fanta mar Aire Gnóthaí, Pobail & Gaeltachta.... Continue reading »

07 May

Links

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on edelmandublin.com/blog

Minister Eamon Ryan has announced a major revamp of TV licensing in Irelandas part of the launch of a new website – www.tvlicence.ie, which will allow Irish businesses and householders to purchase a television licence online. ... Continue reading »

03 May

The Irish Energy Research Strategy is available for download

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on dublinenergylab.dit.ie/blog

An Energy Research Strategy for Ireland prepared by the Irish Energy Research Council has been submitted to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, TD The Energy Research Strategy is available for ... Continue reading »

Irish Republican Information Service (no. 147)

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on fenian32.livejournal.com

The priests of the parish had recommended it to Éamon Ryan and it had now been given further support. Dr Fleming suggested, therefore, that the Glinsk proposal be examined carefully as a viable alternative, with the potential to bring ... Continue reading »

Eamon Ryan Casual Like

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on greeninkpen.blogspot.com

More. There's also a Facebook group of Ryanies now.... Continue reading »

30 Apr

Figures on abuse two years old

An article about Alan Shatter seen on hse-ireland.blogspot.com

Fine Gael’s Alan Shatter said: “Am I right in understanding that the department has absolutely no idea how many children were reported to the HSE during 2006 or 2007 as being at risk? The minister does not know the average waiting times ... Continue reading »

Proposal for new Irish film tv channel submitted

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on jazzbiscuit.com

A proposal for the channel has been put forward to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in the new Broadcasting Bill which will be launched by Minister Eamon Ryan next month. ... Continue reading »

26 Apr

New Irish Green Grant Scheme

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on wood-pellet-ireland.blogspot.com

A new green grant scheme was introduced yesterday by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Éamon Ryan. (the guy I wrote about a few weeks ago - the X-ray mix up - do you remember?) The scheme is essentially aimed at ... Continue reading »

25 Apr

Grants for Insulation

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on greennav.wordpress.com

Today Eamon Ryan announced the launch of the long awaited home insulation grants scheme. Only a pilot at the moment (North Tipp, Clare, Limerick and Dundalk), it should be launched nationally in 2009. The max grant is €2500. ... Continue reading »

Blue-Shirts just don't get it!

An article about Alan Shatter seen on gaskinbalrog.blogspot.com

Blue-Shirt TD TD Alan Shatter said the only way to change this is to provide an “absolute zone of protection for children” by having a constitutional referendum on the issue. I have already looked at this issue when it first occurred ... Continue reading »

24 Apr

Water.

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on fatmammycat.blogspot.com

The dept. of Communications, Energy and natural Resources headed by green party minister Eamon Ryan spent €17768 in '06 and €16286 in '07 on bottled water. Sales of bottled water in Ireland are up 6% since January and last year Irish ... Continue reading »

21 Apr

Links

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on edelmandublin.com/blog

The Irish Independent reports on plans by Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, to restrict junk food adverts on children’s television as part of the the new Broadcasting Bill, which will see a Broadcasting Authority which will ... Continue reading »

20 Apr

Options for Domestic Electricity Generation

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on greennav.wordpress.com

Wednesday saw an announcement by Eamon Ryan that they are working on allowing houses in Ireland to export Electricity (not here yet… but working on it). This has been resisted by the ESB forever, and for not crazy reasons… but anyway… ... Continue reading »

Oil money to flow into Clare Clare People 16/04/04 Andrew Hamilton …

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on martinhogan.ie/articles

The Clare People has learned that several high profile Green Party members are to lobby Minister Eamon Ryan, to adopt a proposal designed to force the oil producers to re-negotiate existing terms with the Government. ... Continue reading »

15 Apr

Alan Shatter

An article about Alan Shatter seen on thedailministers.blogspot.com

Because Alan Shatter (“the Shat”) speaks a lot of it from his constituency in Dublin South. His day job since the 2007 election has been Fine Gael Spokesperson for Children, but he is also a solicitor. Alan is, I believe, ... Continue reading »

13 Apr

Green Party demonstrates her new Strength

An article about Eamon Ryan seen on inishtrahoull.blogspot.com

Earlier at the conference Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced that a new code of conduct for broadcasters will protect children from advertisements for junk food. Ryan told the convention that the code of conduct will be ... Continue reading »

09 Apr

Fine Gael- let the stereotypes be

An article about Olivia Mitchell seen on darrenjprior.blogspot.com

We have an ineffective leader and only Richard Bruton, Brian Hayes, Olivia Mitchell and Michael Creed got back to me on the below email I sent our entire front bench (bar Leo) and Seanad leader two weeks ago. ... Continue reading »

28 Mar

The Sin of Judgement

An article about Seamus Brennan seen on turbulenceahead.com

Slowly but surely some in Government are recognising this - as witness Seamus Brennan's initiative to change welfare provisions for single parents. We need also to look further afield to how others have responded to the incentive issue ... Continue reading »


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