One day he’s welcoming the provision of playground facilities in Kilrush, the other he’s enquiring (reg. required) about the date of an early release of a sex offender. Pat Breen is having a bad week. Today on RTE he defends (realplayer required) himself saying he’s a ‘family man’ and it was a point of information he [...]
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The Hag of Beara has moved herself from West Cork to the West Bank and is blogging about it. Along with MacDara in the Lebanon it’s another way of keeping up with the middle east.
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Sarah posts that the finding that most surprised her in the ESRI/RCSI research on sexuality was the sexual behaviour of gay men. Here I found a fact which totally stunned me: 70% of gay men reported never having anal sex and 27% of gay men reported never having oral sex. What are they doing? Not [...]
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Dear Health Professional I had the displeasure of being treated by this morning, It was our first meeting today, we’ll be seeing each other every week or so for the next 6-8 weeks. Your first words to me were to lecture me on being 10 minutes late. You didn’t ask how I was or realise [...]
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Can someone please explain to the government the concept of ‘joined up’ thinking? On Tuesday the Department of Justice says it will be opting out of Brussels II/Rome II, yesterday the Governments Lawyers were saying that gay couples could not get married as marriage is special protection for opposite sex couples (subs. req.), that’s after [...]
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As Michael and Bertie were busy talking about ethical government yesterday few would have noticed that the Irish government indicated that they would not be taking part in ‘the negotiation and implementation of new EU Commission proposals on divorce and legal separation.’ Brussels II/Rome II as it is generally known would allow for granting of divorces for nationals [...]
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I wonder if the lads at infactah have their videos/DVD recorders at the ready for the first 30 minutes of tonights broadcast of the match on RTE2. Since TV3 had the coverage of last Saturday’s match we were denied the Giles/Dunphy treatment of what happened in Cyprus. There’s a lot of catching up to do and [...]
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Yesterday the state called Professor Patricia Casey to give evidence on their behalf in the case being taken against them by Dr. Katherine Zappone and Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan. Professor Casey is a psychiatrist at the Mater Hospital and also based at UCD. Professor Casey is a member of the Irish Catholic Churches Commission on [...]
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Imagine the scene – live blogging the one day party conferences being held in the run up to the general election - or maybe the press conferences being held during the campaign itself. Oh I see it now – all along the back row with our sponsored 3g or Vodafone wireless cards and Aspoke.com screen covers [...]
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Aren’t the Blogging the Election Team all a happy bunch. (read shattered) This event does not end with a plenary - instead it ends on the blogosphere….ie. the debate and discussion continues and more events are to come. I forgot to mention Ciaran Cuffe T.D.’s op-ed piece in this mornings Irish Times, it’s a very good [...]
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