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Last Week ( I was on Holiday in Bruges last week. Like a F**King fairytale) so I am a bit behind the news. But anyway last week the government announced.Taoiseach launches €150m plan for ‘smart schools’. Every classroom in the country is to get a teaching laptop, software and digital projector over the next three years [...]

The MEP of the Year awards were given out Last night and the Irish took home. No awards. Indeed none of our MEP’s were shortlisted. Now you might be asking why I am pointing this out. But I am sure if we did win one we would hear about it.

If you look up the definition of young you come across amongst other meanings Lacking experience; immature. So Young Fine Gael can easily be called “Immature Fine Gael”. From The Irish Times: Young Fine Gael members clashed with Cóir representatives outside the anti-Lisbon Treaty organisation’s headquarters in Dublin city centre this morning. Fine Gael’s youth [...]

From Labour Halloween is now well and truly here. What was once a time for religious celebration is now in many cases an excuse for anti-social behaviour. Yes indeed Halloween was once a religious celebration but before it was actually called Halloween. As we all know Halloween comes from the festival of Samhain a pagan [...]

From the Irish Independent. JUNIOR minister Conor Lenihan lobbied his older brother, the Finance Minister, to have his friend – Allied Irish Banks’ whistleblower Tony Spollen– appointed to the board of one of the banks last year. Ah Conor Lenihan he of Kebabgate is again in the news. It seems that when ever I hear [...]

Now I have not previously posted a strictly “Ireland not as bad as you think” post but I will submit our Health Service being listed as 13th out of 33 European Countries and our low crime rate to the not as bad as you think list. So today the World Economic Forum has released their [...]

The whole Donal Og Cusask controversy has passed me by the last few weeks. Now Donal Og coming out has not really changed my opinion of the Guy. He is still a crap goalie. (Then again I am from Tipp). But the media forray that this has created has shown a very deep set prejudice [...]

From Front page of Fianna Fail website advertising their Youth Conference in Bundoran I have to wonder what Hector is doing there.

Joan Burton yesterday in the Dail was talking about murder and the DPP. She said too things that caught my eye. First The efforts made by the DPP to increase the level of communication from his office particularly in the distressing circumstances of the avalanche of murders that regularly occur has been extremely important to [...]

Enda Kenny has to his credit started a debate on reform of the structure of politics in Ireland. Alas it in my opinion does not go far enough. Here are a few thoughts on the matter. The Dail is too little power, the executive rarely if ever gets its position changed by chamber. So there [...]

The other day Enda Kenny said. I believe the Seanad should be abolished and the next Fine Gael Government will put this to the people. I have come to the conclusion that a second house of the Oireachtas can no longer be justified. In abolishing Seanad Eireann, I have examined the outcome of similar decisions [...]

Update: Now with Westminster comparison. So the new Programme for government is discussed. I.E the supposed plan for running the country in the next 2.5 years. Lots of interested people Now just for comparison. This is Prime Ministers Question Time in Westminster. Watch here. .

Came across this paper via the Adam Smith Blog. It talks about the reasons that the welfare state is popular in Sweden. It also outlines steps governments can take to increase the support for welfare state cuts. Do not initiate public commisions. Increase social insurance benefits above the choking level Forbid topping up of welfare [...]

Labour Not clapping. Fianna Fail Clapping.

Labour’s Sean Sherlock is such a card. Hilarious chap. “We are told that bovine waste is a strong producer of methane, and there was a strong smell of it emanating from the RDS last Saturday. Oh my god this guy is Bill Hicks reincarnated. Get it Bovine waste – bullshit get it . This guy [...]

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