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Entries from July 2008

New blogs in the Irish Times

July 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics

So a few weeks after going free the Irish Times is going all bloggy on us. Joining Conor Pope and Jim Carroll last week was Brian Mukandi with Outside In which is definitely a much needed eye on Ireland from the outside inside and it’s getting a lot of interest and interaction if one looks [...]

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Car Crashes, divorce and militant gay lobbies…

July 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

From Thursday’s Irish Times Letters page… FF and Civil Partnership Bill Madam, – David Carroll’s vitriolic attack on Senator Jim Walsh (July 1st, 2008) was a good demonstration of liberal intolerance. Senator Walsh is absolutely right to be concerned about the proposed Civil Partnerships Bill and his concern mirror that of a majority of the [...]

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Wexford FF politics and Civil Partnership

July 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · David Quinn, Homophobia, Irish Politics, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

Senator Jim Walsh has been busy this week putting forward a motion to his parliamentary party concerning the proposed Civil Partnership legislation going too far. He has been busy saying he wasn’t being homophobic and saying his party colleagues who supported the motion (25 of them) weren’t homophobic. It’s clear from the silence that not [...]

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