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By way of a heads up, IE.com is looking to have an interview posted in the coming weeks with Cllr and Dail candidate for Dublin South Central, Labour’s Eric Byrne. The interview is ongoing so if there are any specific questions you want included leave them in the comments.
Our first FF respondent looks likely to be Damien Blake in the near future. Again questions in the comments.
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What happens in Dublin doesn’t stay in Dublin. For example, the weakness in IFSC-based Depfa bank affects a bridge in Vancouver.
Dominique Moisi in the FT: The gold medal for selfishness may once more be given to the Irish, who have followed the ingratitude of their No vote on the Lisbon treaty with absolute contempt towards the search for a collective solution to the financial crisis. The European spirit is low and a “European political will” is lacking.
Cathal Coleman out at my alma mater emailed the details of his adult education course on Democracy this morning. The course is called The Worst Form of Government: Democracy from Plato to Marx and full details are in the pdf.
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Keith has a great post tying together the threads of Bertie's evidence at the Mahon Tribunal
Obama takes the gloves off and the US Election gets dirtier. Take a gander at his new ad attacking McCain's dirty campaign.
For Damian. Does he think that Fianna Fail organising in the North would lead to the demise of the SDLP.
For Eric Byrne. Which would be the least palatable serving in a FG/Lab/Green/PD coalition or FF/Lab coalition.
Rephrase them as needed I guess.
Eric Byrne is a survivor of a close count and contested election result. I wonder how he feels about the principle of electronic voting (not interested in his views on the particular machines we bought). Would he favour retaining the traditional paper ballot and manual count?
The councillor has been a public representative since 1985. Does he think local government has served or failed the needs of the state as a whole over that time?
(Examples: Electoral Roll, Planning and Development, public housing, waste policy.)
And why?