Written by Cian on May 7th, 2008
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In a packed Dail chamber, Brian Cowen was elected Taoiseach of Ireland after a vote to choose between him, Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore. The vote was won by 88 to 76.
He was nominated by Bertie Ahern himself however it only became quite raucous as Mary Harney seconded Cowen’s nomination and defended the government’s record [...]
Written by P O'Neill on March 11th, 2008
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Simon had given the most recent account of the phenomenon: the government toying with days of the week and seasons when scheduling elections and referenda for political advantage. Now Bertie has a new twist: a Lisbon vote in June, on a day yet to be scheduled, but in the middle of when many first-time voters [...]
Written by Simon on January 2nd, 2008
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For us here at Irishelection.com one of the big issues of last year was the fact that the election was going to be held on a Thursday and not on a Saturday or at least a Friday to aid the most people to go to the booths. We got 1381 signatures to stop the “temporal [...]
Written by Simon on October 3rd, 2007
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Drug allegations raised in the Dáil
Fine Gael TD Simon Coveney asked Bertie Ahern if he was aware that a journalist had claimed an unnamed Minister had admitted taking drugs on a regular basis.Mr Coveney asked if the Taoiseach was planning to call in his Ministers to ask them if the claim was true.He read out [...]
Written by Eoin on May 17th, 2007
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Regular readers will recall my attempt to persuade RTÉ to make video of the Prime Time leaders’ debates available online without restriction so that it could be shared and reused on sites like this without fear of copyright infringement. Alas and alack, RTÉ said no; but, wonder of wonders, Fianna Fáil said yes! The full [...]
Written by Eoin on May 14th, 2007
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In answer to my requests (blogged on this site here, here and here; and elsewhere) that the forthcoming leaders debates on RTÉ be made available online without restriction so that the footage could be shared and re-used without infringing copyright - unsurprisingly and unfortunately - RTÉ have declined to do so:
Further to your request that [...]
Written by Simon McGarr on May 12th, 2007
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I’ve written before about the problem of discussing public affairs in videos when you can’t legitimately reuse portions of the RTE news- the primary source for any current affairs videos.
Eoin O’Dell has started the ball rolling to try to persuade RTE to release the footage of the upcoming debates in a format which would allow [...]
Written by Eoin on May 10th, 2007
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A few posts ago on this blog, Paige wrote:
Perhaps the thing that I find most annoying about politics in Ireland is our national tendancy to import every half-baked idea from abroad and assume that it has equal validity in our little parish.
Oops. Before I’d read Paige’s post, I’d just put a post on my blog [...]
Written by Cian on May 9th, 2007
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So lets move it back on, do we need two extra bank holidays per year?
Written by Simon on May 5th, 2007
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One of the reason’s the government gave against Saturday voting was that it would interfere with people’s religious devotion. So what do they do instead of interfering with religious devotion? They put it on the Jewish festival of Shavuot. For the second time according to Fine Gael. So that means that the religion part of [...]
Written by Simon on May 2nd, 2007
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Niall Murray in the Irish Examiner again goes on about Thursday voting. Making the point.
Written by Donagh on April 30th, 2007
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Seanachie, of the superlative Pleasures of Underachievement highlights something that perhaps should be getting as much prominence as the Weekend vote issue but has, so far, managed to go completely under the electoral radar.
Written by Niall on April 29th, 2007
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They’ve announced it.
The general election is set to be held on May 24th.
I won’t be voting. This is not because of apathy. This is not because the difference between the two possible coalitions is minimal. This will be because of what one angry disenfranchised voted called Temporal Gerrymandering.
Written by Simon on April 26th, 2007
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You can sign the petition here Currently1152 signatures including Fianna Fail big wig Senator Mary O’Rourke who issued support in the Seanad previously.
The Dail Debated the weekend voting bill again last night. Again the same fuck up was made. This time by Sinn Fein. You should read the debate it is [...]
Written by JL Pagano on April 25th, 2007
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This is getting beyond ridiculous. Am I the only one who thinks Comrade Bertski is making a complete mockery of the rules by stalling on naming a date?
Yesterday, bold as brass, he was able to announce that he’s going to wait until the Dáil gets through a lengthy programme of bill-passing before he chooses [...]
Written by Simon on April 25th, 2007
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Dail Debate of Weekend voting bill is online. Read how Dick Roche’s Christmas’s came at once. You can sign the petition here