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A local election candidate from Fine Gael in Dublin North East (Brody Sweeney) is suggesting that people use public transport to reduce global warming. It is fine gael policy to have more PRIVATE buses on bus routes.
Also on Mr. Sweeneys website he is calling for the removal of a bus lane on the N32 as the [...]
[first posted here 30/11]
I got our first Xmas card today. It’s from a Dublin North East TD. The self confessed third socialist in the Dail himself, Martin Brady, sent in the earliest Xmas card. Martin is not used to been early; he turned up ten minutes late on the radio, ten minutes into a panel [...]
Originally posted to BrianGreene.com.
PaddyPower odds, 12/10/2006:
FF/PDs
5/4
FG/Lab/Green
11/4
FF/Lab
7/2
FG/Lab
7/1
FF on their own (Min. or Maj.)
10/1
FF/SF
12/1
FF/Green
12/1
FG/Lab/PDs
16/1
[originally posted to BrianGreene.com]
click to enrage enlarge. [both photos in or near Dublin North East mid-late May 2006(six)] is the election on? are the posters ready, are the plastic ties counted, the corry board booked? the ghost bloggers employed? the franking machine adverts booked? spat with junior partner organised? check. Go Go Go.
[originally posted to BrianGreene.com]
paddypower odds. [20/05/2006]
7-4 FF/PD’S
10-3 FG/LAB/Green
10-3 FF/LAB
9-2 FG/LAB
7-1 FF on their own (Min or Maj’)
10-1 FF/SF
Google Cache paddypower.com [15/05/2006]
13-8 FF/PD’S
10-3 FG/LAB/Green
10-3 FF/LAB
11-2 FG/LAB
6-1 FF
9-1 FF/SF
[no comment from me - but yours are welcome]
[originally posted to BrianGreene.com]
remember O’Toole’s law, it states “Murphy was an optimist” Well outgoing Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole will have to be optimistic as she enters gangland Ireland with Donegal and the Garda reserve issues as a back drop.
As the murder rate in Ireland rises, it would be nice to hear that O’Toole [...]
[originally posted to BrianGreene.com]
Will he go wont he go. Or just politely say goodnight. When is the right time to hold the next election, the following piece in the turbine says lots about our crass political system.
FRIDAY 11 May 2007 has emerged as the favoured date for the general election, meaning that by this day [...]
A second Irish referendum? Eurocrats have a better idea
Dan Hannan at the Telegraph reckons the plan in Brussles is not for a second referendum but instead to parachute in sections of the Lisbon Treaty via legislation.
"Are Americans and Europeans simply more compassionate than Asians?" asks Ian Buruma. Asking why it is that Chinese and Malaysian warships are not sitting of the Burmese coast with food. Thought provoking? Or a bit prejudiced?
Jurge Habermas once argued that the EU could provide a model for a new constellation of democratic politics allowing for transcendence of national partisanship. Now he is not so sure - the EU response to Lisbon is tending towards authoritarianism
Did the Commission Lie About its Own Poll?
Openeurope asks whether the commission engaged in a little bit of number fudging in the run up to its poll being released. If it didn’t I am thinking that political leaking took place from elsewhere in the system.
but it will smell awful
