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Dan Boyle was selected last night to run for the Green Party in the Euro-South constituency next summer. The senator’s work will be cut out for him getting into one of the three seats.
The field is likely to have two sitting MEPs who won in 2004 and a third who was parachuted in for Simon [...]
If it weren’t for the fact that we are in the middle of an international crisis of global proportions in the uncharted waters of unpredictability (ed - that is enough hyperbole), the government would be getting covered in other forms of excrement. Not least due to the admission that:
”high proportion of existing schools are in [...]
Dempsey urges talks in rail dispute
There are two small but interesting pieces in the Irish Times today concerning Labour and the PDs. The PDs are meeting in Galway today in a meeting organised by Noel Grealish to discuss future direction. Though the meeting is due to be “councillor-driven” and Mary Harney won’t be present it is interesting and symptomatic of [...]
Eamon Ryan was on RTE this morning and said that it is time for a full debate on the merits of nuclear power in Ireland. In light of the decision which seems to be coming today in the UK to begin upgrading their nuclear power generators. A debate which has been called for a while [...]
It seems the horses are getting jumpy in the Fianna Fail stable. On Morning Ireland, Noel O’Flynn suggested that it might be an opportune moment for Bertie to consider making a statement on the events of last week.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, Mr O’Flynn said: “In order to clarify a number of issues it [...]
The report of the 2007 Consituency Commission is out, some would say a little bit too late but how and ever. Kerry is to remain split, with Kerry South a 3 seater while Kerry North joins to West Limerick in also remaining a 3 seater. Dublin Euro is a 3 seater, Dun Laoghaire is a [...]
RTE are reporting that Amgen has put their plans for a factory/facility and an additional 1,100 jobs in Cork have been put on hold indefinitely. Rumours had been around Cork for a while that this was the case but as recently as last month the company were simply saying their would be a delay in [...]
This is according to people talking to Mulley from CUH. In addition to cutting back on cleaning in the hospital and charging staff for parking, the source says they are freezing hiring until December or January not September as implied by the HSE in their early October review.
In order to cut down on costs, [...]
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 [...]
Labour/Fine Gael/Green missed out by 7 seats. Where were these 7 seats that they could have won that would have won the election. Here is 3 seats that decided the outcome.
Cork South Central - Kathleen Lynch is being joined by her brother-in-law Ciaran in the 30th Dáil. So that’s husband and wife and mother and son elected today.
(Familial values in this post were earlier misappropriated - take the issue up with our Cork Representative! My Apologies! I thought he was a bit old to be [...]
Just a word to say many thanks to Will and Stephen for their fantastic reporting from the Cork Counts on Mysay. We’ll deliberate later but I think we can say Mysay.com got tried out big time today and it’s only the job as they say in the Peoples Republic (that’s mega, fab, great, wonderful)
Green Party TD Dan Boyle is eliminated in Cork South Central
Wicklow could elect 3 FF TDs as it seems that Fitzgerald has gone ahead of De Burca on tallies, putting him in position to take a third FF seat. Count there in 30 minutes.
Meanwhile in Cork South Central Lynch is beating Dan Boyle of Green Party by 200 before Buttimer’s 5,760 are transferred.
Our favourite candidate Morgan Stack got 116 votes. Emmm I smell Neo-con conspiracy here. Ah well in fairness he did try.
Edit: His email to the Times.
techPresident – The Future of Campaign Technology: The Ground Game
Irish Parties looking at learning online and database lessons from Obama could do worse than bear this post in mind. Almost as soon as the election is over, improvements and evolution are making some parts redundant and others essential. Get your campaign an i-phone for everyone? Might be better than printing flyers, it goes to show how parties, if they take it seriously, need to keep ahead of the wave - not just follow.
Colman at the EuroTrib give his reasoning on why Lisbon is dead. The Government's incapable handling of the budget cuts are the nail in the coffin.
Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar offers his view on how the SBP Opinion Poll would translate in an election.
Think tank: Time for democracy to click into place
Dan Sullivan gets himself into The Sunday Times, calling for the internet to connect citizens to a more meaningful democracy. Its an argument I agree with wholeheartedly myself. Have a read and let him know what you think.
Colm Burke MEP reckons that we need to get honest and tell people we will be holding a second Lisbon Vote in Oct 2009 with protocols desigend to secure a yes vote.
