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30 Apr 2007
Election 07 - Oh, it’s on.
Seen on marc_scully
This is from twentymajor.net: “Vote for us. Sure aren’t we great already and change is always messy and horrible and sometimes sticky and nobody … it. Go on. There you go. There’s that smile! Ahhhh…” - Fianna Fail “Vote for us. We’ll abolish stamp duty and reform... Continue reading »
And they are off (finally)
Seen on sliabh.net
So Bertie finally called the election. I have been planning to put up some topical posts on politics anyway … (manufactured in there by Fine Gael), Property (in particular stamp duty) and possibly the environment... Continue reading »
Ireland general election set for May 24
Seen on Electoral Panorama / Panorama Electoral
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has called a general election for the 30th Dáil, which will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2007. Under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005, the size of Dáil Éireann remains unchanged at 166 seats, but constituency boundaries have been redrawn and the number of constituencies will increase from 42 to 43:... Continue reading »
Adams predicts Sinn Fein advance in general election
Seen on goodfriday >>> eastermonday
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has predicted success for the party in the recently announced Irish general election. The election will take place on May 24th. Although the party leadership is remaining tighlipped about the number of seats they expect to win, many commentators are suggesting they will double their TDs from 5 to 10 and may hold the... Continue reading »
The Campaign Begins
Seen on Kevin Rafter’s Blog
Day One. “I’m really up for this,” Enda Kenny told me as I followed him around Ballsbridge early on Sunday afternooon. The accompanying media and political pack was having trouble keeping up with Kenny’s pace. Memories of 1997 and 2002 but then it was Bertie Ahern as the pace setter. Today Ahern launched a dawn raid on the Aras and then read a... Continue reading »
29 Apr 2007
Ahern interview
Seen on Kevin Rafter’s Blog
Interview with Bertie Ahern from Sunday Tribune, 29 April. Comments on election, tribunals and health services. General mood in keeping with FF’s low key start to Election 2007. Bertie Ahern walks across his office, hand outstretched. He’s limping slightly. That old jogging injury is either acting up again or maybe he’s just canvassing too hard.... Continue reading »
Ahern hijacking peace process?
Seen on Kevin Rafter’s Blog
Bertie Ahern has been accused of “hijacking” the peace process to benefit Fianna Fail’s election campaign amid calls for a postponement of his address to the Westminster parliament until after polling day. The opposition believes Fianna Fail is manipulating several positive peace process events to stress Ahern’s experience over Enda Kenny. On 8... Continue reading »
My Vote
Seen on Dec's Rambling
The election has finally been called and like greyhounds leaping from the traps to chase a hare every candidate is after your vote, desperate to catch you but I cant help but suspect that like any greyhound race the one that stands to loose most is the hare. Who will I vote for? Well I grew up in a Fianna Fail family so the idea of voting for... Continue reading »
Vote for us
Seen on Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars
“Vote for us. Sure aren’t we great already and change is always messy and horrible and sometimes sticky and nobody wants that. Yes, we’ve made mistakes but who better to make amends for the mistakes than us? We know how we’ve fucked up so we know best how to fix it. Forget crime, poison water, dodgy payments, rising inflation, €5 pints, drive by... Continue reading »
Electoral Limbo
Seen on The Pleasures of Underachievement
The General Election has been called, unsurprisingly for the 24th of May, making it five years almost to the day since the last one (for those non-Irish folk looking in, I am talking about the Emerald Isle here). Due to my brother’s wedding twelve days beforehand I am not going to be able to take more time off work that month to return home and... Continue reading »
Cllr. John Brady Welcomes General Election
Cllr. John Brady of Sinn Féin has welcomed the Taoiseach’s decision to finally call the general election. “There are a number of very important issues that need to be addressed in Co. Wicklow. We now have a population of just over 126,000. Yet this is the only major county in the State without a general hospital. I recently launched a campaign... Continue reading »
Poster Boys and Girls
Seen on Genevieve Carbery
[ pademoneyes.gif] All around the city on this sunny Sunday the spotty young supporters of every party climbed lamposts and stopped traffic to get their posters up and in prime position. Bertie all around the city - advertising for Team Bertie. Demonstrating that despite the manchester payments ‘debacle’ this man is Fianna Fail’s trump card.... Continue reading »
Bertie’s busy weekend……
Seen on Genevieve Carbery
[ Bertie and Mary]Bertie’s long awaited announcement came in the wee hours of Sunday morning. No doubt many revelers returning home from a late Saturday night saw his car (with the man of the people in the front seat as always) make its way from Drumcondra to the Aras and blearily wondered if this was the moment we’d been waiting for. The... Continue reading »
Limerick east election candidate portrayed as gun-toting maniac in RTÉ show
Seen on The Limerick Blogger
Limerick east election candidate portrayed as gun-toting maniac in RTÉ show April 29th, 2007 RTÉ ’s “The State Of Us” portrayed Limerick East election candidate and former Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea, as a gun toting lacky for Bertie Ahern. During the programme, the character of of O’Dea was sent to silence Transport minister who was... Continue reading »
Irish Election on May 24th
Seen on Forty Something
This morning, the date for the next Irish General election was anounced as 24th May. After 10 years in Government, the people once again get their chance to decide their fate…. And in a strange way the choice is similar to booking a RyanAir flight, 1) Pay peanuts and know that YOU’LL be treated like the monkey… i.e stick with the current... Continue reading »
And They’re Off!
Seen on - UnLaoised
And so the General Election campaign is underway. Yesterday, as I made my way to Centra on Station Road to get the paper, I noticed that Tom Parlon had had a crack squad of poster erectors at work overnight. Every lamp post on Canal Road had his poster, fore and aft. As the election hadn’t yet been called, I was going to phone the Laois County... Continue reading »
OK Go - Here it goes again; and, Labour’s missteps
Seen on fallibilist
That’s the name of a song with a rather cool video. It’s also the thought of politics watchers, as today the election was called for May 24th. “In the weeks ahead I pledge to give the Irish people the campaign they deserve: a campaign of issues and policies, not insults and attacks,” said the Taoiseach.”I am more interested in attacking problems... Continue reading »
Fianna Fáil killed 368 people last year
Seen on Riemann's Cut
Fianna Fail along with successive incompetent Irish governments have killed countless people on Irish roads over the years. I’m sick to my balls of shitty adds telling us to slow down. Lets take a look at the latest effort, which is like a scene from Fair Shitty: Two love birds sitting on a wall, with hair so perfect (seriously, which ones the... Continue reading »
Election Time
Seen on To the end of ...
So its that time of decade again when we jere in Ireland get to pretend that we can change our country by putting different people in charge. now 30 seconds of checking puts me in Dublin South Central. The candidates i have to choose from are Sean Ardagh, FF Eric Byrne, Lab Tony Mcdermot, GN Andrew McGuiness, WP michael Mulcahy,FF Aengus o... Continue reading »
So where will those Sinn Féin gains come from?
Seen on From the Balcony, A Publisher's Blog
There’s an old trick in political campaigning whereby you underestimate the scale of your ambition — say by aiming for five seat gains when you expect to get ten — so that you can play up your final result as a whopping electoral endorsement. However, Sinn Féin spokespersons have already gone on record as being confident of doubling their seat... Continue reading »
yes, there’s an election coming up
Seen on Winds and Breezes
I’m a bad person. I don’t read a newspaper that ever was, and if I can avoid it, I don’t listen to talk radio much either. Today, I have been only playing CDs. But I knew - knew to the core of me - that an election had been called. How did I know? Because the Labour party were out putting pictures of their candidate on every single lamp post ... Continue reading »
Enfin: Election Day: 24 May
Seen on Café Waterford
Elections day: 24 May Taoiseach sets May 24th as election day The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has set Thursday May 24th as the date for the general election. “I am more interested in attacking problems than attacking people. This election is about Ireland’s future, protecting the progress we have made over the last ten years and building on it” said... Continue reading »
General election on 24 May - Official
Seen on My Place
The following article is from RTE NEWS The President has dissolved the 29th Dáil, and polling in the General Election will take place on Thursday 24 May. The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, went to Ã?ras an Uachtaráin this morning to seek the dissolution. Mrs McAleese left at 9am for a week-long visit to the US. Mr Ahern’s move followed weeks of... Continue reading »
sunday indo wants the greens to win.
Seen on I Need A Plan
lol, of course they don’t. today, fianna fail managed to get a typically soft focus interview with bertie ahern into the sunday indo to coincide with the announcement of the general election date.(1) the pr guys are earning their shillings there anyway. some more enda kenny bashing in a piece by brendan o’connor, though the article is more about... Continue reading »
And so the madness begins.
Seen on The Seminal Chronicle
This morning after a very long wait, the cuddliest and most lovable politician in Ireland, known to us as Bertie, twice as lovable now that he is granda to eh, Rrrrrrocco and Jay, paid a visit to Mary’s Ã?ras and asked her to dissolve the Dáil so that the long-awaited general election can be called for May 24th. This is the culmination of months of... Continue reading »