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FF 42 UP 3
FG 21 DOWN 2
LAB 12 NO CHANGE
SF 7 DOWN 1
GREEN 7 NO CHANGE
PDS 3 DOWN 1
INDS 8 UP 1

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Mayo News
No CIA flights for Knock
Meath Cronicle
Meath Should be Top in NDP
The Kerryman
Celtic Tiger Bypassing Rural Communities
Donegal News
Builders Can Do What They Like in Letterkenny
Southern Star
Minister Understates Impact of Ferry Loss
Westmeath Examiner
County Development Plan Gives More Space for Growth of Largest Towns

On the day that the government issued an embarrasing rehash of spending plans and flogged ideas, Enda Kenny decided to spend his time flying kites.
Last week, Bertie, McDowell, and Cowen got up in front of the nation and said ‘WE HAVE NO NEW IDEAS. OUR BALLS ARE UNGUARDED. WHY DON’T YOU HAVE A GOOD ‘AUL [...]

The celebrities are coming thick and strong in the election race. We have had all-star GAA stars and famous children’s right activists. Now the PD’s have kicked the celebrity up a notch. They have managed to recruit a king among celebrities. They have recruited the guy from the Sensodyne toothpaste ad.
Is the slogan not Sensodyne [...]

From the man who would know, Damien Mulley. Below is some of the post, worth reading and remembering.
“Noel Dempsey has really pissed off a lot of rural communities after finally admitting that they won’t invest in the Group Broadband Scheme anymore. Despite telling people for all of 2005 and 2006 that all they had to [...]

Today marked the end of the Green pre-election strategy meeting. They announced medical cards for all children under six and a system of primary care centres (staffed with Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists and Nutritionists) to be run on a not for profit basis would be part of a programme for government should they be involved in [...]

I was listening to Pat Kenny this morning where there was an interview with Gerard Barry (HSE Employer Manager Morning Ireland had him aswell) on all this Consultant contracts malarky.

The New York Times has a piece about Ireland and demographics what do people think ? (hat tip Irish Eagle)

I started to write this piece with a view to seeing what it actually proposes. But on reading it I got angry and insulted. I felt belittled and talked down too. I felt that this document was treating me like a child. And most insulting of all that I needed someone to do the thinking [...]

From their press office (as I am waiting for today’s Dail proceedings to come online). Fine Gael’s Fergus O’Dowd read a special Health Board report from 2004 into the Dail record today which appears to suggest that Mary Harney had some measure of awareness of the conditions which old people were enduring in some of [...]

A new PD press release NDP gives scope for PD transport ambitions – Morrissey
The National Development Plan (NDP) gives great scope for the PDs’ transport ambitions, according to Dublin North Senator Tom Morrissey.
What like these ambitions that are not even remotely done?

Last week I compared the media’s coverage of the upcoming election to the TV game show “Deal Or No Deal”. Looking at Comrade Bertski’s “new” National Development Plan, it looks as though he’s more of a fan of “The Price Is Right”.
It’s an unbelievable exercise in political spin. A large chunk of the [...]

The residant angry Green John Gormley is angry again this time at RTE. For not having Trevor Sargent on Late Late Show or Tubridy Tonight. Now I could be mean and say that this is Trevor and point out these are light entertainment shows. But I wouldn’t. He has a point if you [...]

The interesting thing about the NDP is the hopefulness of it all. It is presented as the next phase of NDPs which is to build on the foundation of the 200-2006 model and expand infrastructure. It will now include social infrastructure also which is an essentail element. In the area of transport, we saw that [...]