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Today its up to a once-off £30,000 which the Tribunal put to Ahern he received from developer Owen O Callaghan after a March 1994 meeting about the tax status of Quarryvale and Blanchardstown shopping centres. When he looks around at the empty press gallery and reads headlines of economic woe, he must think it was [...]
McCain’s Dishonour
Obama takes the gloves off and the US Election gets dirtier. Take a gander at his new ad attacking McCain's dirty campaign.
Lehman’s collapse could not be prevented over the weekend and we are definitely facing into “Great Depression” territory now in the banking system. It doesn’t create the greatest macro-economic background for a globalised economy but one thing could make it worse; a collapse of a bank here leading to queues around corners for money.
Will it [...]
IF you haven’t glimpsed the Sunday Independent, you can guarantee that the edited extract of a speech given by Junior Minister at the Department of Trade and Enterprise John McGuinness will be dominating discussion of the Social Partnership talks over the coming days. It remains unclear if the governmen is capable of steering a course [...]
Perhaps in an attempt at balance, however it seems more like a dose of split-personality the Irish Times delivers the thousandth installment of the “nuclear option” saga. The softening up of public opinion for a second vote on Lisbon continues alongside the much-decried “soothing noises” of Michael Martin and others in Cabinet.
Again today Stephen Collins [...]
Before lunch at the conference on October 4 we will be hearing from a number of people active in the NGO sector on the role of the internet and social media in their work and activism. Our own Damian O Broin from askdirect will be along to talk about his work and we are working [...]
Noel Grealish prolongs the agony for Progresive Democrats by failing to kill them of.
I am a bit behind the curve on this one -wierd since we are organising it! In the next couple of days, we here at irishelection.com and partners at EU Irish Representation will be announcing full details of the 2008 Blogging and Social Media Conference. Running on October 4th in the EU Building on Dawson [...]
Female Clinton Supporters In Focus Groups See Talent, Mudslinging In Palin’s Speech
Very interesting instant focus grouping of Palin's speech. It remains to be seen how the issue of sexism becomes resolved for the Hillary supporters who remain to be won over - how does Palin need to come across to get support? As tough as [...]
Mature reflection was undertaken in Cabinet today and government has decided to bring the budget forward to October 14th.
This comes amid record unemployment levels, job closures which cause concern and criticism of inaction by government. Moving the budget forward will be a dud trick if they don’t engage in some grand gesture to stave off [...]
Stephen Collin’s story in the Irish Times today is one of those ones that feeds into a zeitgeist. Political leaders who have let the Social Partnership talks slip, are in charge of an economic slowdown and on 13 weeks of summer holidays receive their final pay increase today.
TDs WILL receive a pay rise of some [...]
Suzy has the theory. It consists of two words; stop over.
Someone emailed this from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform apropos our post on the mergers of the Equality Authority, National Disabilitiy Authority and IHRC (among others). Source asks about the vetting process and the final two three organisations in the press release relative to the others.
Plugged-in politics hits our shores
Online politics hits Australia
Simon McGarr’s post raised the issue of state agency rationalisation. It is an issue we may well not care much for at the moment, as we’re ‘too busy’ with the recession. Yet we should be concerned that some the agencies being tied together and taken back into departments are those ones with a nasty habit [...]
A tiny autonomous archipelago off Finland could soon add to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty woes…BBC
That isnt the kind of thing you expect to read everyday on the BBC website - or perhaps it is. Anyway it seems that not alone can the Irish do damage to the treaty by effectively killing it. A small island [...]
What happens in Dublin doesn’t stay in Dublin. For example, the weakness in IFSC-based Depfa bank affects a bridge in Vancouver.
Dominique Moisi in the FT: The gold medal for selfishness may once more be given to the Irish, who have followed the ingratitude of their No vote on the Lisbon treaty with absolute contempt towards the search for a collective solution to the financial crisis. The European spirit is low and a “European political will” is lacking.
Cathal Coleman out at my alma mater emailed the details of his adult education course on Democracy this morning. The course is called The Worst Form of Government: Democracy from Plato to Marx and full details are in the pdf.
Bertie at the Tribunal - The Money Trail | Keith @ Granite Shavings
Keith has a great post tying together the threads of Bertie's evidence at the Mahon Tribunal
Obama takes the gloves off and the US Election gets dirtier. Take a gander at his new ad attacking McCain's dirty campaign.
