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23 Jan 2007
More pressure mounts on Minister for Fudge
Seen on The Limerick Blogger
More pressure mounts on Minister for Fudge January 23rd, 2007 The pressure is mounting on the Minister for fudge Dick Roche to address the issue of Limerick’s desire for a boundary extension. On the one hand he has John Fitzgerald to contend with. According to this morning’s Irish Examiner, the former Dublin City Manager charged with... Continue reading »
22 Jan 2007
Questions and Answers
Seen on cearta.ie
Questions and Answers Posted by: Eoin, in Privacy My Monday evening viewing has, for many years, often included Questions and Answers on RTE1, but this is the first time I’ve blogged one of the episodes (which should appear here soon). Among the guests were Ger Colleran, Editor of the Irish Daily Star, and Andrea Martin, solicitor and... Continue reading »
Fulltime Fire and Emergency Service to North Wicklow
Seen on Fulltime Fire and Emergency Service for North Wicklow
Fulltime Fire and Emergency Service to North Wicklow January 22nd, 2007 by margaret121 The need for a fulltime fire and emergency service to North Wicklow is something we have a very pressing need for and have done for the past number of years. Our young people are paying for the lack of a fulltime service with their lives. North Wicklow... Continue reading »
Sinn Fein to take seat in Wicklow?
Seen on - Wicklow
Sinn Fein to take seat in Wicklow? January 22nd, 2007 On December 31st the Wicklow.com Election 2007 poll opened. We asked who will your first preference vote go to. Here are the results and if this were a larger sample, it would make for interesting headlines. Take these results with a pinch of salt as only 23 votes were received. Anywhoo,... 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 »
irish election post
Seen on The Dossing Times
I don’t have any other sources of this story other then Fianna Fail press releases so I don’t know how accurate it is (If anyone knows where it was said let me know but it is not entirely new). But if they are true and that Labour want a.) a rotating Taoiseach or b.) Pat Rabbitte as Taoiseach this is truly bizarre. ”Enda Kenny is previously on... Continue reading »
21 Jan 2007
Health Survey
Seen on Cllr. Michael O' Brien
Over the weekend Seamus Pattison and I took part in the local launch of the Labour Party’s health survey. Nationally Labour is distributing 52,000 questionnaires to households asking for peoples’ opinions and experience of our health system. Locally Labour members are distributing 5,000 leaflets to homes across the electoral areas in Carlow /... Continue reading »
FAI responds to Minister?s call for a united football administration in Ireland
Seen on FAI.ie
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Dermot Ahern, urged the FAI and the IFA to work towards having a “one…... Continue reading »
20 Jan 2007
McCabe killers almost released twice
Seen on The Limerick Blogger
McCabe killers almost released twice January 20th, 2007 An article in the latest edition of Village Magazine which was brought to our attention by a reader. Gerry Adams is claiming that on two occasions, the government had agreed the release of Garda McCabe’s killers. On the first occasion, according to Adams, Michael McDowell would fly by... Continue reading »
A Putin By Any Other Name
Seen on The Land Of Ireland
A Putin By Any Other Name ‘Putain de Président’, some disgruntled Francophone Russians might mutter, but after 2008 they won’t be saying it about Vladimir Putin. That’s because the wildly popular Russian president’s term of office expires next year and Putin is disbarred by the country’s constitution from standing for a further term. But is... Continue reading »
Trevor Sargent ar Podge and Rodge
Seen on An Saol
Go raibh maith agat gach duine as ucht an tacaÃocht, tá an ceart agaibh, nà ach duine é! Seo fiseán de nuair a bhà sé ar Podge and Rodge. Má tá an tagallamh ar fad ag aon dhuine ba bhreá liom é a fheiceáÃl.... Continue reading »
19 Jan 2007
So, Pat told John Bowman on Questions and Answers …
Seen on Harry McGee
So, Pat told John Bowman on Questions and Answers that he wouldn’t put Fianna Fáil back in Government. “Now is there any part of that you don’t understand?” he asked rhetorically. Well, umm. Yes, there was in fact, Pat. The part you told Gerald Barry the following Sunday. “The Labour Party can’t decide after an election to go into government... Continue reading »
John Deasy: genius or jizzbiscuit?
Seen on Skangerland
Obviously the Skanger, like most people, came down on the jizzbiscuit side of this one (forgive the pun). Then, after Deasy’s remarking that if Fine Gael happen to lose the next election, then he might reckon on standing to be leader once Enda does the decent thing and kills himself or goes back to Kerry (six of one, really), I began to wonder.... Continue reading »
To Carers! To Change! To Christmas!!!
Seen on Senator Brendan Ryan’s Blog
I love Christmas. I loved it when I was a child and I love it now. Even this year, just after a family bereavement, I love it. I love it because, at its best, it hints at what we could really be like if we wanted to and if we were let. People are kind to each other, people are generous with each other and people at least briefly have time for... Continue reading »
18 Jan 2007
Bertie Bertie Bertie
Seen on Ian’s Blog
Bertie Bertie Bertie January 18, 2007 Posted by iancarey in Bertie Ahern. add a comment [ juncker_ahern_2.jpg] Classic lads being lads scenario... Continue reading »
Once a stick, always a stick!
Seen on Balrog
I see that Stickius Maximus AKA Pat Rabbitte has been less than confident in relation to the chances of an “Alternative Coalition” actually gaining power at the next General Election. Despite claiming that the “Alternative Government” AKA Blueshirts and Sticks will win the next election he has refused to rule out coalition with Fianna... Continue reading »
Drink driving.
Seen on Fatmammycat.com
From the Indo. “ONE-in-five drivers killed driving to work in the morning is over the drink-drive limit. These findings are revealed in an unpublished Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report. They completely undermine claims that gardai are annoying drivers going to work by giving breath tests. The new research was commissioned by the Road... Continue reading »
Depressing
Seen on All you got to do, is plug me in
There seems to be a lot of hoo-hah in the papers lately about the possibility of The Labour party going into Government with Fianna Fail if their usual pact with Fine Gael fails to do the business for them. I’m not sure where this comes from, given that the normal Labour Party line is that they would never even consider entering into a Coalition... Continue reading »
Niall Ó Brolcháin: rock’n’roll mayor of Galway
Seen on Kernan Andrews - MySpace Blog
By Kernan Andrews Niall Ó Brolcháin is certainly the first Green mayor of Galway, but this week, he may just have become the city’s first rock’n'roll mayor. Or has he? It’s also a title Labour’s Michael D Higgins can claim. The current edition of the Irish music magazine HotPress features an article entitled Irish Politics: the next generation,... Continue reading »
17 Jan 2007
Trevor Sargent - An bhfuil gach duine tar éis éirigh nÃos aibÃ?
Seen on An Saol
BhÃomar ag deánamh grammadach na Gaeilge ar scoil inniú, agus mar sin tá mé ag iarraidh iarracht a dheánamh na rialacha a chur i bhfeim anseo. Táim cinnte go fós deánfaidh mé na millte botúin ach ‘Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste na Béarla cliste’! Má is gnáth, tá fáilte roimh gach ceartucháÃn. Tuigim an mhéad nach bhfuil ar eolas agam leis an meád a... Continue reading »
Tearing the arse out of a story: Indo hacks and Labour’s “dilemma”
Seen on ie-politics
“Wouldn’t it do your head in?”, Vincent Browne rhetorically asked today in his Irish Times column. He was talking about the positions adopted by Pat Rabbitte about possible post-election scenarios and putting Fianna Fáil back into government. What does my head in is endless arse-tearing by commentators about hypothetical situations out of which... Continue reading »
Prime Time on Taoiseach’s visit to Saudi Arabia
Seen on John Gormley
Prime Time on Taoiseach’s visit to Saudi Arabia January 17th, 2007 John Gormley appeared on RTÉ’s Prime Time on Tuesday 16th January, discussing the raising of human rights issues on trade missions with reference to Bertie Ahern’s visit to Saudi Arabia. You can view the programme on RTÉ’s web site. Posted in Foreign Affairs, Media | No... Continue reading »
rugby bits and lots of pieces..Bertie forgets he’s from Leinster!!
Seen on The Limerick Blogger
rugby bits and lots of pieces..Bertie forgets he’s from Leinster!! January 17th, 2007 Jaysus, there’s a lot of stuff to catch up on at the minute, not all of it directly relates to Munster or Limerick but it may have an affect on things in the future so its worth a mention.. Starting with the Munster bit… The Christmas decorations have gone... Continue reading »
Revised Rules of the Road Booklet
Seen on Primal Sneeze
Unlike my previous post about the Rules of the Road, this is serious. Could be deadly serious. Warning: This a long rambling rant, which has been simmering for a long time and I just need to get it off my chest. If two to three paragraphs is your limit, then go away now. On 2 June, 2006, Minister for Transport Martin Cullen published Draft... Continue reading »
Run Rabbitte run
Seen on Splintered Sunrise
Irish Labour is facing the upcoming election without any serious hope of making progress, and how that has come to pass is a story in itself. A couple of years back, Labour was riding high in the polls, and, not for the first time, looked to have a serious chance of displacing the Blueshirts as the major opposition party in the Free State – if... Continue reading »