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And the overall economy? Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on what sounds like advanced deliberations inside Dell about shifting its manufacturing capacity from Limerick to Lodz in Poland. Office jobs in Ireland would be retained. But as the article explains, Dell is unusual among computer makers in its retention of substantial manufacturing capacity — most [...]
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 [...]
Video from yesterday’s Save Our Slots Rally
I am unable to embed them here, but they can be found at the below link
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Update Simon. Video added below
I believe one motion on Shannon has been defeated by 1 vote. 68 to 67. Watch or listen live.
Ongoing attempts to quantify the damage done by the Aer Lingus pullout suggest that 10,000 jobs may be at risk. Its primarily an issue of infrastructure and access to the region, which has become heavily populated with FDI and multinational companies thanks to Shannon Development. Fianna Fail is doing the usual trick of providing its [...]
Moving the Heathrow slots from Shannon (a 4 hour drive from Dublin and airport of choice for those in Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, much of Connacht and the North West) to Belfast (now a two hour leisurely drive from Dublin Airport thanks to the M1 looks like it has had its first victim.
The Dromoland Castle development [...]
2 FF elected. Looks like another FF to be elected and a FG. Last Seat between Green and FG.
No one elected in Dublin North
Niall Collins (FF) elected in Limerick West
The scandal from Limerick East is that Kieran O’Donnell is looking strong to take O’Malley’s seat and even potentially pip Peter Power for the fourth (2 boxes missing or lost from the tally). Limerick West is looking set for a repeat performance with both Dan Neville and Michael Finucane only 350 votes apart after the [...]
But Willie didn’t really know what it was he was signing.
Willie O’Dea thought he was putting his signiture to a leaflet for Niall Collins when he signed the dotted line.
In reality, he was signing a letter urging former former constituents to give their Number One vote to Niall Collins. 1,300 copies of the letter [...]
Did Willie O’Dea put his posters with the dodgy punctuation up to take advantage of the celebrations associated with the ancient pagan feast of Bealtain?
It has been ten years since a Labour candidate has put themselves forward for a Dail seat in West Limerick.
But that is all about to change as 27 year old James Heffernan has been put forward to represent the party in the constituency, with hopes to win a seat there.
While our Limerick East Fianna Faillers spent last week calling each other names through the local media, one Limerick West Fianna Fail election candidate thought he was do a little childish behaviour of his own, by teasing some young children.
Niall Collins was probably hoping people would remember his name come election time when he sent [...]
This is a little delayed as I should have posted this on Saturday. Anyway, here it is now.
To find out what the Limerick Blogger Election Project is all about, head here.
The Limerick Blogger Election project has completed it’s first week.
For those of you who don’t know what the hell the Limerick Blogger Election Project is, here is a brief reprieve.
Last Saturday, I send out e-mails to every declared election candidate in both Limerick East and Limerick West constituencies. The e-mail contained an invitation to write [...]
While Bertie Ahern holes himself up in the tidal wave of controversy surrounding the revelation that he took “loans” from friends to finance the costs of his legal seperation, the news has not been good for the Government either in this part of the country.
Newcastle West was dealt another blow after 260 jobs were put [...]
Four months after a survey carried out by members Sinn Féin in Limerick, revealed that the residents of three large estates immidiately north of the Limerick City/County border, would prefer to be within the city limits, there seems to have been little or no movement on the boundary issue.
Sinn Féin’s representative and city councillor, Maurice [...]
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.
