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United Irelander has an interview with Green TD Ciarán Cuffe.
Interesting responses to Questions about McDowell, United Ireland, European Union and many more questions. Check it out.
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How to “cull” banking executives: the UK Financial Services Authority is getting ready to do it.
Gardai inquest evidence dismissed as bollocks’ | The Irish Sentinel
just found this site, no idea if I am late to the party on this one. check it out - bit of fun
Here’s the Dept of Finance statement issued late last evening about the Minister’s discussion with the banks. I think we know why some banks didn’t want to be in the guarantee scheme: those in the scheme can be made an offer they can’t refuse: to merge.
Mary Harney’s expensive trip to Houston and Phoenix.
The FAS/Florida row is not the only time the issue of her travel costs has arisen.
techPresident – The Future of Campaign Technology: The Ground Game
Irish Parties looking at learning online and database lessons from Obama could do worse than bear this post in mind. Almost as soon as the election is over, improvements and evolution are making some parts redundant and others essential. Get your campaign an i-phone for everyone? Might be better than printing flyers, it goes to show how parties, if they take it seriously, need to keep ahead of the wave - not just follow.
I am interested to hear the Greens supporting a United Ireland as I rarely hear from them on that issue. I question though whether there is consistency from the Greens on this given their support for immigration. Will the immigrants have any interest in this when the Southern referendum happens?
I am not sure I get you. Why would a united Ireland be inconsistant with a united Ireland.
I am sure many immigrants will take interest in the issue. Especially the young who will be taught Irish History
When will someone ask the Greens to condemn cheap air travel as a major contributor to global warming? If they are environmentalists, they will do so and thereby commit political suicide by upsetting their middle class voters. The alternative? Well, that’s where the truth lies. They’ll do anything, say anything for a vote. They look increasingly like FF: “What’s your policy?” “Whatever you’d like it to be!”
I think Eamon Ryan was clearly stating the Green Party line when in the Dáil he said
It is remarkable that airline tickets from Cork to Dublin may be bought for one cent, which means, in effect, that only the tax must be paid, whereas a train ticket costs €60. A friend of mine explored the options of either flying or taking a train to Vienna and found a flight ticket for €150, whereas the train cost in the region of €550. In terms of the emissions and pollution being created by the aviation industry, we will have to start recognising the need for change as a reality. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, rather than lobbying the European Council of Environment Ministers on behalf of Ryanair, will have to be honest for the first time by saying that use, as well as safety and navigation, will have to be controlled. If we can use technology and, in a sense, time to order our lives in a way that protects the quality of our lives and environment, that need not lead to a negative result and that is what I stand for.
(16 Feb 06 Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill)
more text here:
http://www.greenparty.ie/en/in_the_dail/speeches/16_feb_06_air_navigation_eurocontrol_bill
Hi Danny,
Thanks for clarifying that. Any thoughts on the constituency battles and the GP poll position, on which I posted a day or two ago?
It is intersting about the price of airline tickets indeed one of the major issues in this regard is the approach of accounting in all of this.
The simple fact is that current accounting methods take no account of the cost outside of expenses that business exerts on the environment. Taking into account the overall damage of CO2 emmissions in the framework of the spreadsheet gives a remarkably different cost structure to airline tickets.
I dont like that flying may cost more or be given up by me but if cheper alternatives are available i guess it will have to do.
That same argument can apply to most extractive industry and so forth, the cost to the surroundings ought be put into the balance sheet.
The point in relation to the Green Party is that, like true populists, they won’t risk the support of their travel-mad, middle class supporters by talking about the need radically to reduce the number of people flying.