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Well it didn’t take long for Leo Varadkar to join the queue for the ‘Will FG just stop’ treatise that Simon has started. Having watched Dr. Varadkar from afar during some of his student days I’m not surprised. I’m only waiting for Lucinda Creighton to call for women to be charged for post abortion [...]

One of the mysteries of Bertie’s dig-outs is the way cash was mobilised from people of relatively modest means.  Consider Paddy Reilly, not the Plasterer.  A contributor to the Christmas legal expenses dig-out to the tune of £2,500.  He had a butcher’s shop.  He’s dead.  So now is his wife, Ellen.  Things were apparently sufficiently [...]

The people of the Shannon region probably would have ranked the options for airport hub connections as follows: (1) restoration of the Aer Lingus service, (2) British Midland to Heathrow, and (3) service to a continental hub.  For now they are getting the third, with Cityjet service to Roissy/Charles de Gaulle, meaning connections to the [...]

Last week I posted a survey of the first one hundred properties listed on Daft.ie for rent in Dublin, as taken from the Daft site on 30 November 2007. Below is a survey of the next one hundred properties taken on the same day. It shows that in two weeks:
17 out of 100 properties have [...]

What they spent Report on disclosure of donations and election expenses at Dáil general election of 2007.
Breakdown
Fianna Fáil €3,650,240.55.

Fine Gael €2,809,474.25
The Labour Party €1,477,321.48
Progressive Democrats €1,012,707.52
Non-Party €795,862.25
Sinn Féin €685,095.66
The Green Party €553,858.70
Socialist Party €56,125.49
The Workers Party €30,200.14
Christian Solidarity Party €11,427.06

We all know the HSE is in crisis. Yada yada. Heard it all before. What you might not have seen before is a potential tragedy unfolding as you read. Please, take the time to read right through to the latest entry. Then, take whatever the most prominent emotion you have and email Mary Harney with [...]

First this week Fine Gael wanted fishermen to fight drugs. Now they want the army to correct kids posture.
the army could also help with posture development of schoolchildren. There is considerable expertise in posture correction and improvement in the Defence Forces.
This is part of a press release that says
Fine Gael Defence Spokesman Jimmy Deenihan TD [...]

Not much to do but offer a quick outline of another mind-boggling day at Mahon. The 2nd dig-out in September 1994 came while Bertie Ahern had the use of an apartment at St Luke’s, a ministerial salary, and had savings in AIB and the Irish Permanent Building society totalling more than £70,000 (add: Gavin says [...]

Doris Lessing is wrong, blogging is good for you and raises your IQ, or so argues Mick.

The Cabinet pay raises are postponed for a year.  One wonders if they intend to backdate whenever they do implement it.  Interesting that of all people it was Willie O’Dea several months ago who was willing to air the unease about the pay raises.  Also interesting is the role of Garret Fitzgerald as wise old [...]

From Phantom 105.2. Is it April already?
Young Fine Gael are refusing to comment on speculation that they may be releasing a Christmas single. Excerpts of the likely track entitled ‘The Ballad of Enda Kenny‘ have surfaced on youtube.
View it here.

Will someone over in Fine Gael HQ simply tell people to shut up. Just stop talking. Seriously. Again today we have another crack pot anti-drugs idea.
Fishermen alienated by Govt could help in fight against drugs - Creed
Please stop the hurt.

After Mr Dempsey last year this is the second minister to have a blog. John Gormley’s Bali Blog.

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John Gormley is blogging from Bali.