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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 [...]

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 [...]

World by Storm awaits tomorrow’s flurry, to pass the time thought, the mysay widget is getting a bit of a test out. One of the early insights comes from Knott who is in Cork East. He was asked to take part in the Exit Poll for RTE, have a listen to what he thought of
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Health:

Interesting response to Caoimhghin O Caolain on health. Two out of fifty in the audience would like to see SF in government but in a head to head on health with Mary Harney the majority of the group were [...]

Amidst the plethora of “2006-in-review” articles populating today’s papers, there is one very interesting piece in the Tribune. The way our electoral system works makes polls slightly unhelpful—ignoring particularity within constituencies and also the nature of transfers—but the Tribune have taken a look across the most contested constituencies to attempt to predict the likely election [...]

Since the dictum that “all politics is local” surely applies in Ireland, it’s worth keeping note of seemingly arcane issues that could present tricky problems for the Government in the election.  One is surely the closure of the sugar factories in Carlow and Mallow.  While the government has the safety net of being able to [...]