Sniffle… Peninsula Ireland have appeared on Maman Poulet’s hall of shame before. Invariably they are described in the media as an employment law firm, one with a penchant for tabloidesque press releases, they never fail to get their guff covered in some paper or other. ‘Peninsula offers a full range of services covering health and [...]
Entries from July 2009
The return of the Department of Dodgey Research
July 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · eejit.., MSM
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Palin the Poetess
July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
It is the best way one could react to that departure speech on Sunday night. I watched it live and laughed my way through it reliving the memories of Campaign 08 and it’s delights. Conan O’Brien asked William Shatner to do the honours in a re-enactment. (By the way I’m awaiting confirmation that Ex Governor [...]
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Oh baby give me one more chance
July 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Declan Ganley, Irish Politics, Lisbon
It’s been nearly two months since he said he was going. Someone in Ballina wants him back! (I’ve been away and swamped workwise and this is very old news forgive me.) Yes Bring Ganley Back is the first highlight of Maman Poulet’s Silly Season. No comment from the (Ex) Chairman on the site and it’s [...]
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An Bord Snip (ing) the social model of disability
July 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Disability, Irish Politics, Recession
Image via Wikipedia I’m on holiday at the moment so have not been able to follow the release of the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes but have done a search of the impact of the proposed cuts on people with disabilities. A quick comment… Cuts to 2000 Special [...]
Tags:Bord Snip·Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform·Dermot Ahern·Disability·Human rights
Vote Yes and the Gangs will be goners
July 14th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Irish Politics, Lisbon
or something… I have been wondering about how I’m going to write about Lisbon II. Well while I continue wonder Lucinda Creighton has started the ball rolling on the spurious/less than obvious or sane reasons to vote yes or no to Lisbon. I’m sure between now and October 2 we’ll have many more. “Deputy Lucinda [...]
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The Story with Bruno?
July 13th, 2009 · 6 Comments · LGBT, Queer
I hear Today with Pat Kenny may be covering the views of lesbians and gay men on Bruno during tomorrow’s show. I’ve not seen it and it would not be on my list of films to see this year. Milk and indeed the films shown during GAZE would be more my thing. I never even [...]
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RTE’s skewed damage limitation logic
July 13th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics, MSM
A complaint is not a complaint if the complainer is shown not to be disadvantaged by it? Even if the issue is proven as being valid? That’s what RTE have said in reply to a complaint to the Broadcasting Complaints Commissionmade by Councillor Kevin Humphreys about Gabriel Byrne’s promotion of Mannix Flynn’s candidacy for Dublin [...]
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One for the blogging and politics nerds
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Social Media
The Swedish Social Democratic Party invited two leading bloggers from the USA to give a seminar on blogging at the Almedal political conference. John Aravosis from Americablog and Jane Hamsher from the excellent FireDogLake were brought over to speak and the seminar was captured for Youtube. There is a lovely potted history of blogging in [...]
Tags:Americablog·Blog·Jane Hamsher·John Aravosis·Swedish Social Democratic Party
Brenda ‘Turnip’ Power
July 5th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Homophobia, Irish Media, Irish Politics, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships
She writes to antagonise. Many of you are going to be extremely angry at reading her latest bit of rubbish. I could suggest that you not to bother with her. Or you could make her some Irish Stew. Or tell her something about children’s rights because she claims to be something of an expert. She’ [...]

