I went to see Milk tonight and loved it. I’m not a good reviewer of books and movies – I find myself going off on tangents – just go see it! (Tangent alert coming up!) I couldn’t help myself from getting angry though at the lack of a Milk figure or politics in operation in [...]
Yesterday Brian Cowen told (shouted at actually) Dáil Eireann that he’ll be leading the country his way. Which of course led me and a few others to be thinking of Frank Sinatra and our dear leader singing a long a Frank. This led me to watch Leaders Questions this morning in the Dáil waiting for [...]
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Ivan Yates in case you have possibly missed him is a former Fine Gael minister and former country’s youngest TD turned bookie, stand in presenter on Newstalk and rent a mouth and paid guest speaker. (Really interesting site that – a speaker agency with mouths for hire.) The rent a mouth part has reached epidemic proportions [...]
In reply to a Dáil question from Aengus O’Snodaigh TD. the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has announced that IBEC have provided replacements for the two places on the board of the Equality Authority which were vacated last week by Dennis O’Flynn and Finola McDonnell. Those resignations were in a personal capacity. No [...]
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In what would be a world first (in terms of an openly lesbian or gay politician) Johanna Sigurdardóttir, Iceland’s Minister for Social Affairs, has said she’s prepared to take on the post of Prime Minister if she feels that she has sufficient support. You may have heard that Iceland is bankrupt, has had riots recently [...]
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Government Chief Whip Pat Carey yesterday announced the legislative programme forseen by the government for the coming Dáil session which commences this afternoon and ends on April 9. Among the list is the Civil Partnership Bill. Publication of the bill does not mean necessarily that it will be debated in this period. Harry McGee notes [...]
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Many thanks to a friend for directing me to this morsel in Saturday’s Irish Times article from Mark Hennessy. HIS TIRED, EVEN exhausted demeanour is frequently commented upon, though it now emerges that the Taoiseach suffers from sleep apnea – where soft tissue blocks the airway at night, depriving the sufferer of deep sleep. Cowen [...]
You may remember that last year I was looking for recommendations for blogs about European Union affairs to read. Yesterday I read via Jon Worth’s blog of the launch of Bloggingportal.eu. It’s a blog syndicator but as opposed to a mere aggregator it has editors which rate posts and summarise them. We don’t think the [...]
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Other than wonder about the nature of the group which helped the mother in the Roscommon Case take a High Court action everyone should be asking What were the schools doing? What did the doctor or public health nurse do? What did the neighbours do? The shopkeepers? Why didn’t the health board go through other [...]
Tags:Child abuse·Child protection·Church·Iona Institute·Roman Catholic Church·Social work
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