Written by Maman Poulet on October 5th, 2008
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Many thanks to Stretch (he reads Hot Press so we don’t have to!) for pointing us to the recent interview with Declan Ganley, the chairperson of Libertas.
You might have seen Mr. Ganley on the Late Late Show on Friday night last, he has also been in Brussels recently. He’s getting ready for Lisbon the [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on April 2nd, 2008
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Written by Maman Poulet on March 21st, 2008
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Junior Minister John McGuinness gave an interview on Newstalk’s Lunchtime Show regarding this week’s proceedings at the Mahon Tribunal this afternoon - Newstalk have press released the interview with quotes after the jump. The overall tone of the interview was less than convincing in it’s endorsement of the Taoiseach.
Written by Maman Poulet on February 7th, 2008
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Last week I received an invitation from John Gormley’s office to attend a consultation that the Green Party was holding to discuss forthcoming developments in the legislation for Civil Partnerships for same sex couples.
Readers of MP will know I have been vocal on the issue of the Green Party policy in government regarding same sex [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on January 14th, 2008
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Update: Finian has been found! On Morning Ireland of all places - god forbid he would put himself at the mercy of Liveline listeners! The promise for the unit for CF patients is contained in Section 5 of the deal document. A new unit is 2/3 years away until completion. Finian is seeking a short [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on December 14th, 2007
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Well it didn’t take long for Leo Varadkar to join the queue for the ‘Will FG just stop’ treatise that Simon has started. Having watched Dr. Varadkar from afar during some of his student days I’m not surprised. I’m only waiting for Lucinda Creighton to call for women to be charged for post abortion [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on July 13th, 2007
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John Gormley has a trait of posting that he’s going to lose an election due to ’safe seat syndrome’. The Green Leadership election is no different it seems. Coming home to canvass after a meeting in Brussels, he discovers most members have voted already and have voted for his opponent Patricia McKenna. He predicts [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on June 18th, 2007
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The blogging TD. becomes the blogging minister. He’s been busy investigating if he can do anything about the present left for him by Dick Roche. We can look forward to reports from Cabinet meetings, tales of the files and folders being sent home with him at the weekend and other tid bits!
Written by Maman Poulet on June 12th, 2007
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According to Newstalk Dan Boyle has emerged from Government Buildings and confirmed that a text has been agreed between Fianna Fail and the Green Party for a programme for government. Bertie Ahern and Trevor Sargent will sign off on it later this afternoon.
Written by Maman Poulet on June 7th, 2007
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The Green Party delegation have taken a one hour break from the talks with Fianna Fail on the formation of a government. The break is to allow them to consult their reference group - made up of TD’s, members of their national executive and councillors.
Update: Finds the cows to milk it a bit further (see [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on May 28th, 2007
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My name is Maman Poulet and I’m a recovering election blogger. It’s been a few days since my last blogging round up, and the politician bloggers are still blogging so I thought I’d round them up for ye.
Joan Burton had fish, chips and left over chablis to celebrate her re-election on Friday, she avoided the [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on May 28th, 2007
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Ciaran Cuffe posts about winning, just. He is also very frank on the matter of coalition with Fianna Fail but there is a but.
Let’s be clear. A deal with Fianna Fáil would be a deal with the devil. We would be spat out after 5 years, and decimated as a Party. But, … would it [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on May 27th, 2007
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Time for us all to think about our individual winners and losers of the campaign – feel free to do your own lists in the comments – I’m picking a few who come to mind and one for who the jury is still out for as far as I’m concerned. (Note I’m mentioning [...]
Written by Maman Poulet on May 26th, 2007
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John O’Mahony and Beverly Flynn elected. FG 3, FF1, FF Gene Pool Independent waiting on a phone call 1
Written by Maman Poulet on May 26th, 2007
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Returning officer announces that votes are missing so adjourns count until the morning, Liz McManus was due to be elected on the distribution of Deirdre de Burca’s votes. All back to the desert at 10am.
Written by Maman Poulet on May 26th, 2007
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Jim McDaid returns from retirement (remember that?) and is joined by the man who brought him out of retirement, Niall Blaney.
Update - McDaid says tension between himself and Blaney made it work - says if he had not come back FF would not have held seat.