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Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, Labour’s Cllr. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and vocal Anti-War campaigner. Who blogs here answers some questions for Irish Election. Just like to thank Aodhán for his replies.
In your speech at the Jeb Bush protest you said that “Dublin is a major international capital and so its civic leaders have a [...]

Plans are afoot to begin podcasting from irish election. If your a contributor reading this and thinking-what?-fear not I will be emailing you this evening.
Anyhow our first podcast will be an interview with Pat Rabbitte Leader of the Labour Party. I am hoping to ask questions left in the comments, the interview is taking place [...]

Just listening to morning Ireland there talking about the French heat wave. One line struck me. The guy talked about the terrible images of old people in the corridors of hospitals. Terrible image in France, Saturday in Ireland.

Bray People
Fox says she will contest General Election
Western People
Higgins calls for restrictions on Free Legal Aid for repeat offenders
Donegal Democrat
Green Party Councillor Resigns Following Theft Conviction
Kildare Nationalist
‘Spend a day in my shoes!’ - angry mum challenges bureaucrats
Limerick Leader
DELL DENY 3000 JOBS IN DANGER.
Longford Leader
Vindication at last for Carthy family
Laois Nationalist
Electric Picnic set to clamp down [...]

Dell in limerick is Dells must efficient plant in the world. It is also the lifeblood of Limerick with 3000 employed. Six out of every 100 workers in the Limerick, Clare and west Tipperary region relies either directly or indirectly on Dell for their jobs. That is a significant number. If this factory was lost [...]

In today’s Sunday Times, Bertie Ahern floats the idea of having the next election in early July 2007. If we are to take him at his word (and why wouldn’t we), this is probably designed at boring voters to apathy and to wear the opposition out with a never ending election. I am sure that [...]

The Southern Star
Deal for beet farmers criticised
Galway Advertiser
Brian Walsh defies expectations and will go for election
Laois Nationalist
Portlaoise mayor condemns health cuts as outrageous
Leitrim Today
Preliminary Census figures set to restart constituency debate
The Argus
Should Louth have an extra TD?
Western People
Mayo’s pioneering move on biofuels
Meath Chronicle
‘Energy’ term a setback - Green
Roscommon Herald
Cllr Kelly highlights need for better dispersal [...]

Bar stool political commentators are the worst. If Irish people are said to be politically aware, it must be stated too that we’re probably the least likely of races to act upon our misgivings about the government of the day.

Very Brady is made of different stuff however. In true “down with this sort of thing” fashion, she religiously encamped outside Peter Stringfellows lapdancing club every weekend protesting against what she saw as the sexual objectification of women. Ultimately, suits and men with money were driven from Parnell Street in shame.

I am sure this will be on the front page of most papers tomorrow. However the crash seemingly was small.Will we see action on road deaths now.?

Apart from the startling figure of 400,000 foreign born residents, the preliminary census estimates released in the Republic yesterday could have some startling implications for the next general election, with constituencies in West Dublin and Meath growing exponentially, and rural constituencies falling.

Politics in this country is at most times selfish. We are increasingly driven by greed and that is not necessarily a good thing. Now I know many of ye are going finally after all this time Simon has renounced his evil low tax ways and joined the shiny happy world of Socialism That I am [...]

So it’s Dublin West.  We noted a while back that the Census results had the potential for a tricky constitutional problem: that a constituency might have grown too quickly to maintain its constitutional minimum of 1 TD per 30,000 voters.    And it’s happened.

Great to see the politicians will not lose the opportunity to make an ass of themselves for the good of themselves Charity. The Charity Your a Star Political line-up is Billy Kelleher TD (FF), Senator Frank Feighan (FG), Dan Boyle TD (Greens) and Senator Michael McCarthy (Labour). The words “PR stunt” springs to mind. Is [...]

While other nations hire ferries, move aircraft carriers and warships, or wait to see how the situation in the Middle East develops the Irish government did something amazing. They hired a couple of buses and drove the Irish citizens trapped in the Lebanon out of the country.

There are now four essential ingredients to a professionally managed political campaign: political polls, data processing, imagery and money. The polls discover what the voter already believes, and data processing interprets and analyses the depth of voters’ attitudes. After that, an image of the candidate is tailored to meet the voters’ demands and desires, and [...]