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Bringing the Irish angle on the global credit crisis to a wider audience, today’s New York Times reports on the case of Structured Credit, a small Dublin based fund whose lending arrangements with various international banks are under severe strain due to continued requests for collateral and which is now in court-supervised restructuring.  And all [...]

Fianna Fail have made available the prepared text of Cowen’s remarks in Ballina this afternoon.  One could question what the value added of the pugnacious speech is, especially as the event is presumably intended to leave some of the partisan politics aside for a little while.  Nevertheless it does usefully collect the FF (and ex [...]

In what can only be described as a surprising move, Tom Parlon has decided to leave the Progressive Democrats and take up a post in the Construction Industry Federation instead. Until now, Parlon was expected to take one of the two PD Seanad nominations (along with Fiona O’Malley), but more importantly had already been marked [...]

I didn’t get a chance to comment earlier on the news that Mary Harney  is to seek a rule change in order to allow the Progressive Democrats to draw their leader from outside the Dail. This is likely to put Tom Parlon into the driving seat for the leadership (barring a surprise tilt from Fiona [...]

The second seat filled. Ninth Count to elect Fleming. Parlon eliminated and redistributing. Between two FF for final seat. Newstalk predicting 3FF 2FG.

To say the least. As one wag has put it “he might get transfers from Sinn Fein”.

In what will likely be an oft-repeated quote, the newly elected president of the Garda Representative Association, John Egan has said that the government has a year (or implicitly, until the election) to deliver extra resources to the Garda and abandon the proposal for a reserve force, or ‘if they do not, we will be [...]

If there is any news in your area. Please let us know and drop us a comment. Longford Leader New poll predicts election success for Peter Kelly and James Bannon Its findings suggested that the four candidates elected to the Dail in this constituency will be: Deputy Kelly (FF), Senator Bannon(FG), Senator Mary O’Rourke (F [...]