Yesterdays Irish Mail on Sunday and today’s Irish Times report that former solicitor Michael Lynn was arrested earlier this month in Budapest. The Hungarian Police wanted to extradite him but couldn’t as there are (still) no criminal charges against him. The only charges outstanding in Ireland are contempt of court. Lynn therefore had to be [...]
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In case you were wondering where he was and what he was thinking, Declan Ganley replies to a twitterers query. Note his new fondness for txtspk. And they all lived happily ever after.
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Last week in my Google reader from the Progressive Democrats. They still haven’t gone away. ERROR: One of the search patterns caused engine to hang. Please report this to Feed43 team. (Couldn’t the person putting the lights out and giving the archives to UCD, put the website etc out also?) Do you ever think about [...]
Paschal Donohoe is a rare breed – a politician who blogs and tweets his way through the summer. Yesterday’s blog entry was rather special though. Our Oireachtas is now led by a man who is literally a waster. I can’t understand why he is still in his job and why he hasn’t commented on a [...]
Continuing the irregular series of ‘Know your yes or no to Lisbon Group‘ today I bring you the Charter Group. Launching next week the group will be campaigning for a yes vote and is not a group of settlers but various Trade Unionists who’ve assembled to put together information on why workers should vote yes. [...]
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Speaking about wanting to ban sunbeds Minister for Health Mary Harney today “I would personally like to ban sunbeds for everybody,” the minister said. “It’s a no-brainer – we know the huge level of skin cancer in Ireland, we know that sunbeds are dangerous and hugely contributing to people developing skin cancer.” A No-Brainer Minister! [...]
Last Friday a group of 18 male asylum seekers in Ennis received a fax from the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) telling them them that they had a week to pack up their belongings and move to places they didn’t know. It’s not deportation (something which happens in this state far more than we know [...]
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Delighted to see that there is a new and updated Spoofers Guide to Lisbon from Jason O’Mahony. It should be widely read and reproduced! Great stuff in Chicken Nugget sized portions. So, what to say about the Lisbon Treaty? Is it dry? Dry? It’s so dry that batches of it should be stored around Europe [...]
That’s right – 44 days to go to the Lisbon II referendum. In the meantime as well as this most important vote on the future of European political co-operation and it’s rules and regulations we’ll have an early return of the Dail and the Seanad, NAMA, more reaction to An Bord Snip including a protest [...]
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