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Alcohol consumption in this country is of major concern. Yet when the accompanying picture was taken were people up in arms at one of our politicians engaging in the very activity that is the surge of young people in this country. We expect young people to curtail their activities and we then show politicians drinking [...]
Its amazing, a regular week where we got told our health system is shite-again-and that 1 in 5 people are still at risk of poverty in this country would see the government slammed from all directions. As it is the media are almost worn out from battering them over the statutory rape mess.
Fine Gael yesterday announced its proposal to “shift balance in favour of homowners” in relation to intruders. What an appalling example of politicking and electioneering, to pander to the base fears of people.
I read recently that the Church of Ireland is concerned at the suggested re-location of the Childrens’ Hospital.
Which brings me back to a sneaking feeling that the closure of the centre city hospitals
While it is still a year away the next general election in Ireland is looking more and more like an impending disaster for the Progressive Democrats. In its first electoral campaign of 1987 it was a relatively big player sitting as the third biggest party in Dáil Eireann; since then it has featured in half [...]
Despite the several valedictories written on behalf of disgraced former minister Jim McDaid it looks like he is facing pressure to stand again for Fianna Fail in the Donegal North East. Concern within the party arises over the possibilty of Independent Fianna Fail TD Niall Blaney joining the party in advance of the election. This [...]
Simon of Dossing Times and here has been slaving away to bring you the new and updated Irish Election. The lads at Biff Sniff are planning on contributing a weekly cartoon to the site which you can read just below. Huge thanks are due to Simon for slogging through the hard bit. Hope you all [...]
This caught my eye on politics.ie - it seems that Vincent Salafia and TaraWatch plan to form a new “party of protest” to contest seats at the next general election. The proposed name of the party is the Irish Citizens Alliance (or “Irish Citizen’s Alliance” although I assume that the Alliance is supposed to represent [...]
Dominic Hannigan’s blog
Dominic Hannigan has started a blog. No doubt as part of Labour’s online strategy (read more here). It’s good. In a strange way. Sprinklings of how great Hannigan is in striving to clean up housing estates and get grants are interspersed with tales of war with County Council Officials.
Niall O’Brolcháin Green candidate in Galway West is trading in the Mayoral jag for a more environmentally friendly car. Yet what he is doing is not enviromentally friendly at all.
Donegal Democrat
McDaid U-Turn?
Enniscorthy Echo
Can Enda Kenny become the country’s next Taoiseach [Interview]
Galway Advertiser
Mayor and deputy mayor to boycott Salthill Airshow
The Kingdom
Sheahan is tipped to win FG backing
Kildare Nationalist
Out of site? A web of intrigue woven in Kildare South Fine Gael
Limerick Leader
Limerick going underground in biiggest ever scheme
Meath Chronicle
PD candidate Campbell castigates council over lack of [...]
The Irish Times seems to have good sources in Leinster House these days. A day after the revelation of the PDs’ own version of the fateful dinner at Granita (lunch at Roly’s Bistro?), they reveal that disgruntled FF backbenchers are hoping to form a Dail equivalent of the Tories’ 1922 Committee. Apparently the initial setup [...]
So there is a leadership struggle in the PD’s. This really is not a big shock.
The Irish Times is reporting that a leadership struggle is going on within the PD’s.
[Originally posted on Potatriotique]
This has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in the Dáil, since the Ceann Comhairle’s frigging outburst at Inda. (Also)
Bertie lost the head this morning in the Dáil with his socialist komrade, Joe Higgins.
Higgins was pronouncing on some such, as is his wont, and Bertie lost his patientce, [...]
A second Irish referendum? Eurocrats have a better idea
Dan Hannan at the Telegraph reckons the plan in Brussles is not for a second referendum but instead to parachute in sections of the Lisbon Treaty via legislation.
"Are Americans and Europeans simply more compassionate than Asians?" asks Ian Buruma. Asking why it is that Chinese and Malaysian warships are not sitting of the Burmese coast with food. Thought provoking? Or a bit prejudiced?
Jurge Habermas once argued that the EU could provide a model for a new constellation of democratic politics allowing for transcendence of national partisanship. Now he is not so sure - the EU response to Lisbon is tending towards authoritarianism
Did the Commission Lie About its Own Poll?
Openeurope asks whether the commission engaged in a little bit of number fudging in the run up to its poll being released. If it didn’t I am thinking that political leaking took place from elsewhere in the system.
but it will smell awful
