So a little bird tells me the new FG website is up. Not officially like but it’s up. I have to tell someone so I told Twitter. Twitter tells me it’s not what it might seem in space of minutes. Read Steph for the full technical details on the rip off! (Irish Twitterers Rock) Update [...]
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On Friday night next in the City North Hotel more Obama juice arrives to be sold to Irish politicians. This appears to be a very watered down version being sold at an expensive price. Recently local authority councillors received leaflets from a company based in Antrim called Performance Enhancement. The company announced that it was [...]
I’ve never read so many UK blogs as I’ve read this weekend. I’ve always thought of UK politics blogs as being very aligned one way or the other and some of them of being quite a bitchfest. I’ve a few in my google reader and sometimes there will be a post which is more thought [...]
Tags:Blog·derekdraper·Guido Fawkes·Iain Dale·Labour·LabourList·Politics
Everywhere you look these days he’s there (except for that Late Late Show). Last weekend he sprinted for the podium in a bid to raise Enda Kenny’s hand aloft at the end of the Ard Fheis speech. On Good Friday he was representing FG on the Six-One News. Now Senator Paschal Donohue adds to his [...]
In January 18 pieces of legislation were promised for publication by Goverment Chief Whip and Minister for State, Pat Carey. They were to be published by April 9, the last day of the current Dáil session. Seven of these bills were to emerge from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform including the Civil [...]
Tags:Chief Whip·Civil Partnership Bill·Department of Justice·European Parliament·European Union·Government
There will be many a nickname for (and many eyes drawn towards) the campaign for the European Parliament election in the North-West Constituency. This video was recently loaded on the Facebook Page of Jim Higgins, Fine Gael’s MEP for the region. The cartoon is two years old and was created by the European Movement in [...]
Tags:Declan Ganley·European Parliament·Jim Higgins·North-West Constituency
I’m very #bludget hung over today and even worse I’ve been dealing with some of the announcements in the day job capacity and it’s not been pretty. As a result I was not paying close attention to twitter and the speeches in the Dáil on the resolutions or as they are known Financial Motions of [...]
Tags:Green·John Gormley·Labour·Pat Rabbitte·Politics·Youtube
A video of the majority of the supplementary bludget speech from Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan to Dáil Eireann yesterday. The row at the beginning over the press getting the speech first is very interesting! I’ve not watched it all through again (once is enough for anyone!) but if you notice anything startling leave a [...]
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Well it’s no surprise that our government are cowards but reading the fine print of the social welfare cuts I can’t believe the measures outlined in reference to rent allowance and the way tenants are being manipulated in an effort to reduce the social welfare spend and again landlords are being let off the hook. [...]
Tags:#bludget·Landlord·Rent·Rent Allowance·Rental·Social welfare provision
Marian Finucane stumbled over the B word a few weeks ago in reference to tomorrow’s Emergency Budget and Bludget seems most apt in terms of the fear that exists in some quarters. Over the weekend there was some downplaying saying it was not going to be as bad as feared – this even after the [...]
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