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.
A commenter on my blog pointed to a Wikileaks document I hadn’t seen before, and I believe has not received widespread attention. Full PDF.
It includes the page below, which refers to developer Sean Dunne’s liabilities to Icelandic bank Kaupthing. The bank was sort of like Ireland’s Anglo Irish. It was nationalised last year. The document [...]
Dug up from the RTE archives. Michael Woods trying to justify the indemnity deal on September 30, 2003.
Yes Michael, it was done by the people of Ireland, not the religious orders. You gobshite.
Full clip here.
The Telegraph are saying this is the likely date for our second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. I must say, I like the name of the briefing paper: The Solution to the Irish Problem
The Irish Examiner is running a series at the moment of putting questions to various Government ministers. The minister facing questions for the next edition is Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin.
Do you have a question you would like to put to Minister Hanafin? Send me an email (gavin AT gavinsblog DOT com) [...]
At least it is according to Minister Brian Lenihan last week.
Yea, you would guess it’s all over since Bertie Ahern resigned as Taoiseach. Well, it isn’t. And there was more explosive evidence. Didn’t hear about it? Quelle surprise. The media, read RTE, seem to be taking their eye off the ball.
Remember that whole B/T account thing?
During a discussion back in 2002, John Gormley certainly didn’t hold any punches when it came to a sum of £30k and a Taoiseach who misled the Dail. Ah, how times change. I guess Gormley would now say “That was then and this is now.”
The Resign, Mr Ahern Facebook group, started back at the start of December, has just passed 1,500 members. It is certainly a milestone, and certainly the biggest Irish-oriented political group I have come across.
Following requests from members for some form of physical protest against Mr Ahern, I have put a date of Saturday April 12 [...]
During the course of his employment [...], his financial remuneration was not sufficient to meet his immediate financial requirements, and he experienced financial difficulties. He said he received assistance from his friends [...], in the form of loans. There was no formal structure to these loans. There was no interest charge, nor was there any [...]
I finally got my hands on it. I had trouble finding it anywhere on the internet, so someone may have already beaten me to it.
Anyways here it is. Pee Flynn destroying his political career in one interview. The quality is not the best as it was recorded on VHS nine years ago, but it is [...]
I have been working away – slowly but surely – on a Mahon Tribunal website. The purpose is to try and organise the sheer volume of information relating to its work, both past and present. Somehow the site is already ranked two on Google for “Mahon Tribunal” searches.
Since the site uses MediaWiki software, anyone can [...]
Thanks a million to Simon for inviting me to post here on Irish Election. I hope to contribute regularly. For my first trick…(I also posted this to my own blog as I want as much feedback as possible).
Myself and my friend have put together a test version of a Mahon Tribunal podcast.
It’s about 30 [...]
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.
