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- O’Callaghan & ors v Judge Alan Mahon & ors [2007] IESC 17 (30 March 2007 - Judgement of the Supreme Court, delivered by Denham J.)
- Mahon Tribunal: Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments
- Owen O’Callaghan v Mahon tribunal case: Quarryvale hearings to resume in April (The [...]

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week saw members of Dáil Éireann discussing the Labour party’s proposed Civil Unions Bill 2006. (Information also available here.) Those evenings also saw the response from the government and other opposition parties.
- Read the transcript of the debate on Tuesday, 20th February 2007 here.
- Read the transcript of the [...]

Fine Gael yesterday announced its proposal to “shift balance in favour of homowners” in relation to intruders. What an appalling example of politicking and electioneering, to pander to the base fears of people.

[Originally posted on Potatriotique]
This has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in the Dáil, since the Ceann Comhairle’s frigging outburst at Inda. (Also)
Bertie lost the head this morning in the Dáil with his socialist komrade, Joe Higgins.
Higgins was pronouncing on some such, as is his wont, and Bertie lost his patientce, [...]

[Originally posted at Potatriotique]
Friday, 26th May 2006, saw the culmination of a number of public events this month broadly dealing with various aspects of family diversity, that is to say, families outside the traditional mammy-daddy-2point4-children marital unit.
After the recent launch and speech in April by our Bertie at the GLEN offices, the month of Mary [...]

On 3rd April 2006, Ireland witnessed a “historic” moment, and all the gays were “vindicated” when the Taoiseach opened the offices of GLEN (Gay & Lesbian Equality Network). Apparently. I was there, and so I suppose I should marvel at this “historic” occasion, and rejoice at my “vindication”.
Excuse me, while I find my queer Uncle [...]

Minister for Stating the Bloody Obvious says: “Shambolic health system is shambles”
Well, well done, Sherlock.
Yesterday, Minister for Health and Children (yes, that IS her portfolio), Mary Harney, declared that the crisis in the country’s A&E departments is a “national emergency“.
Ooh. Well spotted. It only took you almost two f*cking [...]

Is it true? Did Mícheál McDowell last week really throw a gormless insult at Gormley the Green? Well, he certainly said this:
I am not acquainted with the websites that Deputy Gormley stares at in the early hours of the morning, but one of them, www.indymedia.ie, has in the past produced interesting footage. On this occasion, [...]

McDowell gets feisty.
Ooh. Get you, miss thang . . .
RTÉ reports:

Choice of Taoiseach does not matter: McDowell
24 February 2006 16:30
The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has claimed it will not matter that much whether Bertie Ahern or Enda Kenny is Taoiseach after the next election.
Mr McDowell, who is President of the Progressive Democrats, told [...]

Ah, did Seánie’s hissy fit pay off in the end?? The Irish Examiner’s breaking news service has the story:
22/02/2006 - 2:26:11 PM
De Valera to leave post in December

The Minister of State at the Department of Education Sile De Valera has indicated that she will step down from her post in December.
She’s [...]

Dublin radio station, NewsTalk 106 FM, is reporting this afternoon that significant errors exist on Ireland’s electoral register. They quote Minister Dick Roche as saying that, given this state of affairs, electoral fraud is a possibility.
The station’s website carries the following brief:
21/02/2006 16:20
The Government has admitted that any upcoming election is open to massive [...]