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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 [...]
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.
Fine Gael’s outgoing TD for Cork South Central and standing MEP for Ireland South spoke to us while wrapping up his day of canvassing in Douglas, Cork.
View This Video on You Tube Morgan Stack is the guy running on the 9/11 was a government conspiracy ticket in Kerry North and Cork South Central. Strange video, in some respects apart from the subject but also the credits at the start of the video. The video is quiet well shot (. And clearly [...]
From Fianna Fail
On the same day that a survey showed Irish people are the EU’s top binge drinkers, Tesco is running a buy-12-cans get-12-cans-free promotion in the national media for St Patrick’s weekend, according to Fianna Fáil Dáil candidate Cllr Michael McGrath.The supermarket’s promotion of a culture of excess on the same day that [...]
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 [...]
Morgan Stack a university lecturer from Listowel is planning to run for the Irish 9/11 Truth Movement organisation. Which believes that 9/11 was an intelligence operation planned and conducted by very senior elements in the current Bush administration(you can see a documentary on some of the common theories here). He is running in the next [...]
Are you a frugal traveller abroad? See how you’d do on the civil service overseas expenses guidelines (pdf).
How to “cull” banking executives: the UK Financial Services Authority is getting ready to do it.
Gardai inquest evidence dismissed as bollocks’ | The Irish Sentinel
just found this site, no idea if I am late to the party on this one. check it out - bit of fun
Here’s the Dept of Finance statement issued late last evening about the Minister’s discussion with the banks. I think we know why some banks didn’t want to be in the guarantee scheme: those in the scheme can be made an offer they can’t refuse: to merge.
Mary Harney’s expensive trip to Houston and Phoenix.
The FAS/Florida row is not the only time the issue of her travel costs has arisen.
