If you are thinking of donating to a charity this year you might consider the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre for their support of a victim of sexual assault subject to horrific community bullying in Listowel.
Minister for Environment and Local Government John Gormley has today published the two consultants reports’ into the planning and finance functions at the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (which were previously published in draft form by Fine Gael) and has also accepted — 5 months later — Fine Gael’s proposal that the DDDA should be subject [...]
Below the fold, the text of Article 136 from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which is the consolidated set of treaties relating to the EU; the context of Article 136 itself originated with Lisbon. This Article is extremely important because the European Commission is making it the legal basis of [...]
Here’s the text of Brian Cowen’s speech entitled “A Decade of Commemorations — Commemorating Our Shared History” to the Institute for British Irish Studies at UCD today. There are various points to make. One is that these speeches — and this is not Cowen’s fault — have adopted a psychobabble language since they are written [...]
The case for an independent Fiscal Council to oversee the budgetary process, as proposed by TCD economics Professor, Philip Lane, some months ago is underlined by two articles in today’s (May 20) Irish Independent.
If FG was beaten up in the media last week for its initial knee-jerk response to the European Commission’s proposals for pre-scrutiny of national budgets, this week’s Dail speech by Richard Bruton went a long way towards redressing that error of judgement. He also made an almost irrefutable case for reforming the way budgets are produced [...]
A couple of weeks ago, it looked like the Croke Park agreement on public sector pay and numbers was dead. The pent-up frustration of the union rank and file (in contrast to their leadership) coupled with the price tag for the Anglo bailout and Eurostat’s confirmation of what we already knew — that the Anglo bailout is [...]
In tomorrows Sunday Business Post
Fine Gael 33 (-2)
Fianna Fáil 23 (-1)
Labour 24 (+7)
Green 6 (+1)
Sinn Fein 6 (-4)
Indepedents 8
More on leaders ratings later
Dan Boyle sheds the green jersey. His Sunday Tribune comments (which only got a weblink late in the day) are noted by Reuters.
Ivor the Driver — full Seanad report. It was nice of Bertie to send Ivor’s letter of appointment to his Cork address.
How ossified is Irish politics? In the blink of an eye, Australia — which had no recession — replaces its Prime Minister.
I’m a victim of unique Irish blame culture, says Harney
Things Ministers don't do part 2: Harney is not really responsible for these clinial fuck-ups. Sure kick her over policy but not failure. Typical Irish begrudgerry.
