Irish Election - Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs

It’s that time of year again. The time that all academics hate and all students love: the start of the summer. As Ireland enjoys its 2.5 days of sunshine for this year many of us are stuck inside our offices and living rooms with attractive piles of pink, yellow and blue exam books correcting what [...]

To me free market has the ability to solve many of the world problems from Dublin transport to world poverty. It is the one force that allowed the west to out perform the Soviet Union and allow its people to be free. I have talked here about privatising Bus Eireann and Aer Lingus and I [...]

Regarding the latest hiccup in Irish jurisprudence, I’m with Simon: the political consequences for election are hard to discern. If the coalition continues to take a battering on other things, this episode may weigh heavily on them. . But, as Fionna has argued, the issue should not go away. The law as it stands is a mess (if not an ass). This crisis, more than than anything else, reflects a general unwillingness to meet difficult policy issues head-on.

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Sinn Fein to run two candidates in Galway West
Sinn Féin will repeat its 2002 election strategy by running two candidates - one in the city and the other in Connemara - during the 2007 General Election, [...]

On the scale of anger in this country about anything the present government has done this issue has been by far the biggest issue. Decentralisation, E-Voting PPARS has never lead to the same amount of anger among the electorate. No issue has been commented on by as many people on this website. So the question [...]

The Bill is online here.
You can watch the debate here
The important bit
It shall be a defence to proceedings for an offence under this section for the defendant to prove that he or she honestly believed that, at the time of the alleged commission of the offence, the child against whom the offence is alleged to [...]

Much has been said about the recent supreme court decision here and I wouldn’t go back over it as others on this site have made excellent posts on the subject. Much of it has highlighted Michael McDowell’s management of the affair and indeed he does have a major question to answer. Like why there was [...]

Fianna Fail activists in County Limerick found themselves in hot water this week, and could face legal action after they mounted a church gate collection without a permit.
It gets worse for the party. A children’s group, who had a permit, had to abandon their collection at the same church because the Fianna Failers had [...]

Below the fold we will place the complete text of the Irish Times article from 13 July last year that should have signalled to the powers-that-be that the statutory rape crisis was looming.  Of course this was not the first warning of a problem, as recent Irish Election posts indicate.

Ive no idea if this has been picked up or not, however the Western People reports that Fine Gael is to run former football manager and current talking head on The Sunday Game John O’Mahony in Mayo. There had been two local Coucillors running for the nomination but after discussion with Enda Cllr Tom Connolly [...]