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Entries from April 2009

Ooops I just blasphemed!

April 30th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized

The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name by James Kirkup As they took him from the cross I, the centurion, took him in my arms- the tough lean body of a man no longer young, beardless, breathless, but well hung. He was still warm. While they prepared the tomb I kept guard over him. [...]

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Mannix Flynn – candidate for Dublin City Council

April 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

Mannix Flynn is a writer, actor, survivor, artist, and speaker out against bullshit. (My description) He’s running as an independent candidate in Dublin South East Inner City. He’s originally from York Street, lives in Kerry and I hope there are more videos of singing and speaking out in the weeks to come.

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Why the HSE briefing strategy is a goer

April 29th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

When I heard about the HSE briefing opportunities for key media informers I was mildly impressed. Ok so I wasn’t too keen on Gerald Kean, but I  think that it is a good idea for people who ‘talk’ about issues on the media to be informed about the issues and many companies and private lobby [...]

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Bertie Earner to Nigeria – Solving the Niger Delta Crisis

April 29th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized

The economy may be in its boots throughout the world and the country in a big big mess (reading the ESRI report today is not for the queasy). However Bertie Ahern and his Office of the Iar Taoiseach are still finding invites to talk about the economic miracle that he (says he) was responsible for [...]

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I don’t own a trouser suit

April 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

You can read Cian’s ‘analysis’ of Deirdre de Burca and the arrival of the pantsuit in Irish Electoral politcs on IrishElection.com But I’m reeling from the fact that I got a mention in a Green Party press release and it was a nice one! I still can’t figure out how pointing to some very slight [...]

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If it’s Thursday it must be a brethern day

April 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · eejit.., Irish Politics

When word went out earlier that Jim Corr was going to be on the Last Word on Todayfm you could hear radio switches click and kettles boil in anticipation. It is nearly a year since we were all agog listening to Jim’s intervention into the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. Well Jim was back today to tell [...]

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Green Party say they saved the EA, Justice Minister ignores it…

April 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Equality, Equality Authority

Amidst the hype on the junior minister resignations/sackings you may have missed a number of other news stories and spats at the Dáil returned from it’s Easter break. Questions to Justice, Equality and Law Reform Minister Dermot Ahern (he who hogged Questions and Answers on Monday night last..) yesterday in the Dáil continued to focus [...]

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Cheap Job, Badly Done.

April 19th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Media

Sunday morning and Fine Gael are still trying to bury the story of their new website and the fact it’s design is unoriginal and actually awful looking and fails to improve on previous offerings except we can now see Enda Kenny’s videos. Following the ‘launch‘ of the Fianna Fáil website last month the word reached [...]

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Mandatory Stance

April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics

It seems that some political parties believe that if caught out with hypocrisy that taking the ostrich position is the only way to go. I’ll be back over the weekend to the story of the website, the code cogging, the Russian, the denial and the guaranteed Irish campaign which went awry and the spinning machine [...]

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RTE repsond to complaints on #picturegate

April 16th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

RTE’s Response to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission regarding complaints made about the original report and subsequent apology on #Picturegate. Too much to do at moment to comment and such myself but thought the many others interested could provide comment and their own posts on it.

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