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An Spailpín Fánach: Operation Freeflow - The Teeny-Weeny Detail They Overlooked
He is right, Dublin in the snow is a manky looking thing.

Another day in the witness stand and more bizarre revelations and inconsistencies from Des Richardson.  Today at the planning tribunal we learned that Bertie’s dig-out repayments — when he decided that they were loans — were remitted, via Bertie, to a charity in which Miriam is involved.  It’s a strange type of loan to give [...]

Some of the arguments made in this satire piece by The Onion ring a bell.
Remind you of anything?

While much of the media have been acting with glea and the other lot with denial there is a big issue that is being ignored. When ever I go home to my local to have a pint the conversation generally turns to construction. Now this is not a D4 type talk of interiors this conversation [...]

Jimmy Page’s Trousers » Awful Bastard Award #2: Mary Harney
To quote: "I hate Harney with a vitriolic passion that is difficult to put into words. This horrible harridan is, in my opinion, one of the worst and most despicable of the mange-ridden curs that inhabit the halls of power in this country."

I dispare sometimes I really do.
Fine Gael Education Spokesman, Brian Hayes TD has described Mary Hanafin’s decision to distribute a book on Eamon de Valera to schools nationwide as a blatant attempt to politicise education.
Two thousand copies of ‘Judging de Valera’ were sent to 720 schools by the Department at a cost of €36,000 to [...]

The Irish residential property market has now reached a turning point and already there are encouraging signs of a pick-up in activity, with sales enquiries through Hooke & MacDonald increasing steadily. This momentum will follow through into the autumn selling period, boosted by the resolution of the stamp duty issue and as the interest rate [...]

Labour are going to introduce a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health Mary Harney in the Dail next week. Details of the motion are below the fold.
We ask everyone to contact their local FF/Green/Indp TDs either by phone,fax or email and ask them to support the vote of no confidence in Harney [...]

From Indo
No hospital bed for cancer victim
A WOMAN diagnosed with breast cancer after being given the all-clear has had life-saving surgery cancelled because there was no bed available.

In a move that s likely to piss-off Pat Rabbitte, Fintan O’Toole and lefties everywhere scientists at the life&Brain Research Center University of Bonn have proved Michael McDowell was correct. In there ground breaking paper in the Journal Science . By taking MRI scans of men’s brains as they preformed various task it [...]

If the Planning Tribunal was being run like an episode of Law and Order, we’d have had a scene already where the tribunal lawyers ask for Des Richardson to be declared a hostile witness.  Nonetheless, the paper trail that does exist plus admissions that have been extracted from Richardson are highly revealing — especially in [...]

What cancer looks like.

James Reilly is calling for the Minister for Health Mary Harney to resign after it was revealed that the misdiagnosis scandal in Portlaoise continued to claim more unfortunate victims. I think the problem is getting beyond the Minister in this case though, Professor Brendan Drumm is also getting roped into the politics of this scandal [...]

u.tv: Claims over Colombia 3 Book
IRA censoring the Colombia 3? Rumours that James Monaghan has been warned by IRA not to talk to media about his forthcoming book.

How the fall in birth rate is effecting Germany
With a fall in the Birth rate in Germany coupled together with births happening from lower incomes. What will happen?

An Phoblacht, The Cedar Lounge Revolution, Coolacrease and Blogging? « The Cedar Lounge Revolution
‘Blogging may have finally come of age in Ireland’ - An Phoblacht. But what will that coming of age entail?