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Fine Gael are criticising Brian Lenihan for a bit of news dumping today. The annual report of the Morris Tribunal into Garda misconduct in Donegal was released today amidst all the furore surrounding the ascension of Brian Cowen to the post of Taoiseach and perhaps Lenihan’s own promotion to Tanaiste. They have a point, this [...]

*Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Fine Gael Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Bill Timmins met with the Foreign Minister of the Tibeten Government in-exile today and suggested that the visit of the Dali Lama to the UK (May 20-31) represented a great chance to have him address the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Why not the Oireachtas as [...]

Young Fine Gael’s cringe-inducing pro-Lisbon campaign.

Enda gets his place in the sun as the warm, loving, caring place that is the all-powerful blogosphere/interweb gives him some attention at Take Enda With You.

Economic growth to slump to the lowest levels since the recessionary 1980s. Unemployment to rise. Inflation heading back up. Tax revenue slumping. Exchequer deficit out of control. Export growth sluggish. No direction, no respite, no hope and . . . no ideas. Yep, it looks like Fianna Fail is odds on to win the next [...]

It strikes one as serendipity - for the opposition at least - that the Dail debates a motion on the three reports from last week into Port Laoise, the one that gave rise to the Naughton letter and entered ’systems-failure’ in the political lexicon by failing patients in a grotesque multiplicity of manners while the [...]

This post actually started a while back, the last time Bertie mentioned we would be tightening our belts this year, I decided to finish it because he mentioned it again yesterday.
We know that the US is as good as in a recession, their central bank doesnt seem to have much capacity to stall the bad [...]

Judging by the current version RTE website story on Ian Paisley’s departure as FM and DUP leader, Enda Kenny was first out of the starting gate with a statement  Hopefully the government is not so distracted that this could catch them off guard.  One wonders if Paisley might now attend the 10th anniversary observance of [...]

From Fine Gael Ireland reliant on imported fuel due to Govt inaction - Coveney
Fine Gael Spokesman on Energy, Simon Coveney TD, today criticised the lack of progress by the Government on its Energy White Paper, which is leaving Ireland with an overexposure to imported fuel and at risk of energy supply shortages.
Seriously what does he [...]

Tánaiste accuses FG of witch-hunt

A sizeable portion of the Moyross housing estate in Limerick is located in Limerick County Council territory. This area could now be a part of the city as early as next week when, as recommended by the Fitzgerald Report on regeneration and tackling social exclusion in Limerick.
However, twenty years after the estate was built, [...]

From RTE.
Tánaiste Brian Cowen has accused Enda Kenny of sounding more and more like Napoleon in Elba, drawing up plans for wars he lost, as he criticises the Taoiseach.
Didn’t Napoleon escape Elba and eventually lead France again?

A few months ago, t’was all the rage to make up your own Young Fine Gael poster. Now you can do it for real. In previous European Referenda, Young Fine Gael ran provocative, pro-European campaigns, notably the Better 2B Inside poster below, stressing the theme of European integeration. And this time, the intention is to [...]

This afternoon Fine Gael followed up last night’s debate and passport revelation that Bertie Ahern has helped Norman Turner apply for a passport while he was lobbying for the construction of a casino in Phoenix Park with allegations that Ahern was never really opposed to the Casino in the first place. On Vincent Browne last [...]

Following today’s already embarrasing u-turn on his affairs with Revenue, looking like he was trying to bore a hole in his shoes with his eyes. Phil Hogan has released the results of a PQ which reveal that Bertie Ahern helped Norman Turner (of Tom Morrissey fame) to apply for a passport in 1994. Over this [...]

Bertie-hooray, Enda & Eamon-boo. Below is the Fianna Fail response to the gains it has seen in the Irish Times and Sunday Business Post over the week. As you can see, it is thrilled with its performance but it strikes me that this is also a boot that they have been waiting to apply for [...]