Michael D Higgins – National Treasure!
Entries from October 2008
Praying and Chanting and Organising for Obama
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · US Election 2008
Ian, a veteran from various campaigns this side of the pond goes to Virgina, joins up with the teamsters and goes knocking on doors to get out the vote. He’s blogging about it, including news on dirty tricks and going to an Obama rally.
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Obama’s 30 Minute Broadcast
October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · US Election 2008
Forever to be known as the Obamercial. It was risky but it turned out very smooth, very calm, very presidential.
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Ryan Tubridy’s attempts at Presidential election humour
October 30th, 2008 · 16 Comments · eejit.., Ryan Tubridy, US Election 2008
Did you ever get the feeling that Ryan Tubridy has not got over Hillary Clinton not winning the Democratic Nomination for the US Presidential Election? On Saturday night’s TV show during a cooking piece with St. Nevin Maguire of all people, Ryan picked up two bags of icing, one white and one brown and laddishly [...]
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Q. When is a cut not a cut?
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Irish Politics, Recession
A. When it’s an ‘expenditure control measure’. Read the full text here. Deirdre de Burca spent time telling Vincent Browne last night on TV3 that the Greens would have huge input into the amendment to the Labour Party’s private members motion on the Education Cuts/ Class size increases etc. tonight. They spent a lot of [...]
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Phew..
October 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · US Election 2008
But we knew Sarah Palin wasn’t one anyway… Watch the flip flop and you’ll know what I’m talking about!
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Money’s too tight to mention when/if Civil Partnerships will happen?
October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Equality, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
While I was away I saw that GLEN had it’s 2007 annual report launched by Sean Aylward, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on behalf of the Minister Dermot Ahern who was not able to attend due to urgent government business. On the same day the Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, released [...]
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Irish Bloggers hit the USA
October 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · US Election 2008
Keith is in Virginia, Gavin is in Washington DC and the Hag of Beara returns to blog as she hits Ohio. Have I missed anyone else? Me? I’m back from sunny Spain to a horribly cold Dublin, back to work and I’m going to hole up for a few weeks and read about the elections [...]
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No ‘real’ or ‘fake’ Americans – Obama talks about his America
October 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · US Election 2008
Apologies that something seems to have eaten this post… I did say something in praise of Obama and feeling nervous for the next 11 days or something. Meanwhile I´m off in search of the last supper in Andalucia. Back to Dublin tomorrow.
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Apartheid, class, civil partnerships and marriage
October 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Feminism, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships
It’s not the first time I have heard this. And it’s probably futile to think that this might be the last time. However it is a discussion worth having. THE GOVERNMENT’S Civil Partnership Bill was compared to past segregationist policies in South Africa at the annual Turas na mBan gathering held in Westport, Co Mayo [...]
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