All to be discussed on The Wide Angle on Newstalk 106 at about 9 a.m. Saturday with myself, Pat Carey T.D. (FF), John Gormley T.D. (Green), Phil Hogan (F.G.) and Liz McManus T.D. (Lab.)
Entries from March 2007
The politics of water and other issues
March 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Uncategorized
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The Closets are Still Closed
March 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy
Or maybe they did not understand the question? Perhaps they were living apart the night the census took place… Nevertheless maybe there should be a tribunal into the missing same sex couples in Ireland. The number of same sex cohabiting couples recorded in the 2006 census was 2,090 compared with 1,300 in 2002. Two thirds [...]
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Irish Government Introduces Apartheid.
March 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Policy
What you mean you missed it? Don’t worry so have a lot of people. The Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007 is currently going through the Oireachtas. Contained in that bill is a clause that will mean that private developers in the many areas of Dublin will be able to tell buyers that nobody on [...]
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Votetube with whiskers
March 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Late last year Simon McGarr launched a competition and a website called Votetube. Lots of us think it is a great idea. Some of us had organised a conference on politics and blogging the election and there was talk about the impact of uploading videos and elections.. Some politicians take to blogging and videocasting on [...]
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Ponderings on Kathy Sierra and women blogging
March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Feminism, Social Media
(I’ve been rambling on about this in my head as I travel about town today…I’m publishing the post even though it’s not quite worked out yet and I might not be in tune with my thoughts in order to engage in the comments it inspires either but that might change too.) There is discussion ongoing [...]
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Keep the popcorn on ice
March 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Disability
Many thanks to the Ouch blog for telling me about a film I definitely want to miss. Those of you without disabilities may not know about the way in which disabled people are portrayed in films played by able bodied actors, seeking cures and falling in love with our ‘carers’. Blind Dating (cringe….) scores on [...]
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Take it away there Frank
March 26th, 2007 · 8 Comments · April Fools, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Rock the Vote, Same Sex Partnerships
That’d be the deposit that’ll be taken away because in Dublin South Central Frank McNamara does not have a hope of getting a seat for the PD’s. Flying in off his piano stool from Dunboyne, (that’s Dunboyne, Co. Meath!) Mr McNamara has spent this afternoon on Liveline defending himself. One of the last times I [...]
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Who’d want to Skype Bertie?? Let’s Take The Next Step.
March 25th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Disability, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Social Media
What will happen when one clicks on the new Fianna Fáil skype address link? Maybe all those people with disabilities living at home or other places on waiting lists for Personal Assistants could have a laptop with skype brought to them to ask FF what the next step will be for them?
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Twenty Major to get Published… by the old fashioned book type people
March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Social Media
Apart from Ireland’s first entry into the Blookers… this stunning news from Sinead brings three words to mind…. Ross O’Carroll who??? (And Twenty no comments about Ross being a fat cunt in my comments please… a southside c maybe…)
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Rocking the Vote in Ireland from the UK
March 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments · April Fools, Irish Politics, irishelection2007
Now at this stage if you are a regular reader of Maman Poulet you’ll know that I think that Rock the Vote have a few organisiational problems – well more than a few. Now yesterday Rock the Vote went around telling everyone about Cillian Murphy – the actor – and I’m wondering if Cillian is [...]
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