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  This is  the third in a series of posts looking at who would or would not keep their seats if an election was called now. With not much  local polling to go on this is entirly my opinion and probably wrong. If you have any ideas on it please drop a comment. Donegal North [...]

It’s that time again with the European election nominations just closed that you might actually be interested in what your MEP has been up to for the last term. Want to check how they voted or how often they were in Brussel ? Thanks to http://votewatch.eu you can.

This is the second in a series of posts looking at who would or would not keep their seats if an election was called now. With not much  local polling to go on this is entirely my opinion and probably wrong. If you have any ideas on it please drop a comment. Galway West

Update: According to Breaking News, Pat ‘the cope’ Gallagher will be approached leaving Fianna Fail with a lopsided ticket geographically and Galway could now determine the compostion of the North&West’s seats. According to Mark Hennessy Thomas Byrne, TD for Meath East is set to run as the second name on the Fianna Failure ticket. In [...]

Naoise Nunn, former Libertas director during the Lisbon treaty campaign, has an interesting appearance today in the Irish Times. Despite the party polling at 2% in the latest Business Post poll, the Chairman appears to be hanging his hat on a few high-profile scuffles between his candidates and sitting MEPs to generate profile. Ganley has [...]

In Monday’s Irish Times, John McGuinness is now directly challenging the memory if not the veracity of Mary Coughlan‘s account of their recent conversations.  The fact that he was well liked in the media seems to be an underlying issue in the breakdown of his relationship with Mary Coughlan and Brian Cowen.  Another Coughlan reference [...]

The Oireachtas has today launched a detailed profile based on the 2006 Census of all the constituencies in the country. The information is quite interesting and comprehensive and details all 42 constituencies in the country.

The Sunday Times reports that Fianna Fail are looking for “independently wealthy” -haven’t they hade enough of them? – persons to run as second candidates for Europe. They expect them to spend big on themselves like Royston and raise lots too. In other words they are skint. In Connaught-Ulster the party has set it’s hopes [...]

It is probably unfair that she is found out while public finance are in shit-street. Other independents who rejoin or join parties have kept the allowance (at least for a while) before giving it up. But Beverly manages to put such a brave face on these things. FIANNA FÁIL backbencher Beverly Flynn has put herself [...]

We hear that Fianna Fail county councillors are so outraged about the medical cards that they have arranged a regional meeting of an entire Euro constituency of councillors at 24 hours notice for tomorrow. No doubt they are spitting at the prospect of taking the largest of kickings in June for the measure.They aren’t the [...]

Grealish keeps spinning the bottle

So Brian Cowen continues to slowly dismantle the Bertie Ahern machine (on which note, anyone see a Fianna Fail ‘Yes’ poster with Cowen’s face on it?). The announcement that the construction industry wont be dining in Ballybrit will be greeted with delight in the offices of the Green Party and Finian McGrath as a potential [...]

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 [...]

Its is all eyes on Cowen now as Bertie signals the end of his time at the top with today’s events in the Boyne Valley. Most interesting will be the signals sent to those who were thought to be his competitors in the leadership race – Michael Martin, Dermot Ahern and, to a lesser extent, [...]

One of Bertie Ahern‘s home stretch events today was to launch the Dublin Airport Authority’s plan for Dublin Airport City.   Not to put too fine a point on it, this seems like one of the crazier proposals to have emerged over the last year, and symptomatic of much of what is wrong with governance and [...]

While the Indymedia commenters go on about the Fianna Fail-Green Party coalition openly colluding with these US torturers and murderers, in their protest that involved putting Liam Mellows in a orange boiler suit, Niall O’Brolchain is in one of the pictures next to Michael D. What struck me about this is Labour are having problems [...]