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More than the other speeches so far, the clear emphasis is that Fine Gael are pushing Enday Kenny’s conviction politics. His image as conviction politician was the focus of the start of the speech “as leader I didnt just make a bond with Fine Gael but a bond with the Irish people”. While the start [...]
Well auction politics or poker politics, it is all academic. He saw the opposition, by equalling commitments on the standard rate (down to 18% – originally Labour), the pension (€300 over the five years of government – originally PDs), lower the higher rate of tax (down to 40% – not as much as the PDs). [...]
How many years does it take to provide ‘a few more hospital beds’. Today Bertie used that line, while explaining why his government is giving away billions of Euros in Public lands to private hospital developers. His government has been in power for 12 years, and now he is planning to supply a few more [...]
The Indo has a story about the latest wheeze to get around the SIPO spending rules at election time. TDs are to ask secretaries to take leave around the election and work as volunteers; If secretaries agreed to work as volunteers it could save sitting politicians up to €3,000 in wages. Taxpayers would later pick [...]
It was the ECB wot done it: Dick Roche takes the Fianna Fail defence to the pages of the Wall Street Journal Europe.
IRA members seek US Medicaid assistance? Only in conservative prank video.
HSBC to pay $US63 million compensation to investors in light-touch regulated Irish investment fund linked to Bernie Madoff.
Saudi Arabia thinks Batt O’Keeffe is still Minister for Enterprise (as of 15:50, 20 April) not Richard Bruton.
“When I am on holiday, I am not foreign minister.” It’s not just Ireland where ministers have blind spots about their connections.
