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Joan Burton TD made a speech today about Irish Development Aid programme. Today also the United Nations World Food Programme got a donation of €6.2 million from Ireland. Conor Lenihan is the minister for state in charge of Irelands aid budget. He of kebabgate. He is currently in Liberia where he announced €20 million in [...]

One of the most disappointing features of Ireland, for me, has been the discovery that farmers can stop you walking over their land. While I was living in UK, it was wonderful to be able to go out into the countryside and walk or ride a horse. The UK is littered with rights of way,with [...]

Taking a leaf out of the Euro Trib, a collection of Election related stories for your breakfast. The comments are open for chat on any of the issues below. Callely got 1/2 of political donations in 2005. (Well he declared gross so the number is smaller after costs). The Greens are on the Road to [...]

Hoping to have a chat about the site here. In light of comments raised here. Head over and leave a comment. Update Simon: I have turned commenting off on this post so go over and post on Cian’s site so everything is in one place. Thanks

Quietly and without much fanfare the Government have amended the Parental Leave Act to allow those in domestically dependable relationships to be able to take Force Majeur Leave. The sexual orientation of those relationships will be immaterial. Minister Frank Fahey introduced the amendment during a committee meeting of the Select Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence [...]

From an interesting piece in today’s Examiner about the intelligence of admitting defeat so readily so close to an election. Admissions over the chronic condition of Health Provision from both Bertie and Mary coupled with admissions on the backlog on driving tests and life sentencing, seems to be at best an attempt to right wrongs [...]

A mate told me this story. He was driving down a twisty turny mountainous road. In front of him was 2 cars and behind was a van. The van then decided to overtake all three cars. So the van driver put the foot down and accelerated passing out the three cars and cutting right across [...]

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.

David McWilliams is probably one of the countries favorite economic thinkers. So it now looks like the Greens want to capitalize on this to spread a kind of message that Greens are not just Hippies we are robbopaddy, we are kells angels, we are breakfast roll man, we are floppy haired journalist who likes to [...]

Minister for Stating the Bloody Obvious says: “Shambolic health system is shambles” Well, well done, Sherlock. Yesterday, Minister for Health and Children (yes, that IS her portfolio), Mary Harney, declared that the crisis in the country’s A&E departments is a “national emergency“. Ooh. Well spotted. It only took you almost two f*cking years. You’re a [...]

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent last weekend described Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats as a disgrace to the men and women of 1916 and the principles they fought for. The current Labour Party constituency newsletter reports that 15% of children in Ireland live in consistent poverty.   I believe the ideological divide in Irish [...]

Lets face it, being a citizen in Irish society is not the most difficult. Every five years we are invited (not forced) to go to the polls and cast our vote. To what extent however should voting in a General Election be seen as the measure of participation in democratic society. Ought Irish people do [...]

Looking through the Party News on Irish Election .com I find no mention of the new IBEC survey about the Mid-West and the effect of the open skies policy on Shannon. For you who have missed the news basically from excellent the Limerick Blogger.

Adapted from El Blogador I have been using the blogosphere in recent months to highlight the treacherous pretence being perpetuated by the provos that the IRA is the army of Ireland. It isn’t- the Irish Defence Forces of the legally constituted Republic of Ireland represent the only Irish Army- they are the only Óglaigh na [...]

Fine Gael are on of the odd ones out of Irish parties of late. It is the only party with a leader that is not from Dublin. Even though Dublin only has about a quarter of the population it has far more of a share of the power. Of the ten Taoiseach’s in history only [...]

Coffee with Killian Killian Forde (SF) Talks Globalisation with IrishElection.com Frank — Killian, you’ve praised ‘the coming together of the broad left in Europe’ against the Services Directive, and you said the global left has been ‘ideologically drifting, defensive and struggling to articulate a credible alternative’. You expressed satisfaction with the defeat of right-wing MEPs [...]