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Bord Pleanala has laid a bed of nails for Minister Gormley. They have granted permission for the Poolbeg incinerator to go ahead with a capacity of 600,000. The inspector report recommended that the incinerator should only have a capacity of 500,00 tonnes at the most but DCC want the 600,000 to make up the shortfall [...]

The irishelection.com redesign is now nearly ready. By now you will have noticed that up the top in the corner there is an icon for our t-shirts. They are a work in progress, by which I mean that this evening the first of the t-shirts products should be online at the shop. Keep an eye [...]

Govt urged to sign UN protocol on children’s rights
Government urged to sign up to a five year old UN protocol on children’s rights - will this be an issue with the upcoming referendum?

RTÉ News: EU meeting to approve Chad deployment
The mission to Chad will be confirmed today in Brussels

HSE have to send smear tests to US over jobs ban

Dublin Bus services resume
Dublin Bus Drivers are due to call of their strike

Update: Site seems to be functioning now, any bugs please email cian-at-irishelection.com.
As you can see around you the new Irishelection.com is up an running. There is all the usual features plus some pretty cool new ones. The links of interest panel on your right takes links that some of the writers think readers might be [...]

After the revelation yesterday that it was most likely a complaint about balance, most likely to be interpreted as a de facto pulling of Crowne, by HSE. Today’s Sindo reports that Harney was also offered to the Saturday view in order to speak on the health service. Prof. Crowne was also due to be on [...]

I think that Harry is right in that this conference is primarily for internal consumption. Most conferences are about posturing these days but this one has more of an air of regrouping about it. Eamon Gilmore used his speech to outline that Labour’s new position politics is not all that radically different from its old [...]

To facilitate the redesign we were offline for a while last night, we will probably be offline for a little while again this evening. The new site is nearly ready to go and will probably be online tomorrow.

Labour must be one of the biggest chicken shits in the world. They try to come across as a party of vision (or what ever buzzword they are flogging now) but in actual fact they are timid old church mice who just want everyone to like them and not take a stand on anything. Take [...]

The Labour conference started this evening at 6:30, Eamon Gilmore was due to give the opening speech but due to the death of his mother Joan Burton opened the conference. Don’t forget that this is easily the most connected party conference that has happened here and hopefully will bring others along with it. The conference [...]

Politicians are as guilty as anyone when it comes to misuse of language, sometimes because they don’t actually understand the meaning of the words they use but often because it can allow a perception to spread that may not reflect the reality.
One example of this is the now regular use of the phrase ‘On Demand’ [...]

So this week is national Science week and Labour conference. Science week should not just be about getting kids to do science but in this” knowledge” promoting Scientific thinking in society. Alas Labours contributions on the matter is to further the cause of mythology and falsehoods for electoral gain. On the 23th of October this [...]

Gonna be on The Last Word this evening at 5:20 or so talking about Labour’s internet plans for their conference. Harry McGee will be on too. Tune in if your around.

The new design will be up on the site from Monday and a big thanks to everyone who has helped get it ready. Im sure you are all very excited
Also details for a blogger get-together/launch party for Politics in Ireland and Irishelection.com will be announced.
If your feeling so-inclined you can give us a [...]