The women behind Beaut.ie are the among the nicest, savviest, most genuine people in Irish Blogging. They have the prettiest blog and they have the biggest readership. (Gorgeous handbags also as I witnessed at the Web Awards the other evening). They even dabble in a little bit of politics from time to time – well [...]
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In the mid 90′s the joke about the Greens was that they didn’t care much about divorce once the fridge was disposed of correctly in the separation. This was the opinion of many regarding Green Party commitment to social justice issues. I know that this is an unfair description with regard to many Green Party [...]
I’m in the RDS this afternoon for the Green Party Conference on the Renewed Programme for Government. There is a liveblog running and Green Party members are inside the hall tweeting. You can read the full document online and it was available a good hour before the printed version. Loads of reaction online to the [...]
Between Lisbon and John O’Donoghue’s forthcoming resignation far too little focus has been paid on the negotiations for the programme for government. I now know more about fur farming than I ever wanted to know thanks to former councillor Ruairi Holohan’s interview on The Last Word yesterday evening. You need to listen too if only [...]
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The Irish Family Planning Association and the Women’s Studies Centre, UCD School of Social Justice will host a conference on ‘Building the Reproductive Justice Movement’ on October 16th next at 2pm in the Morrison Hotel. The keynote speakers will be Loretta Ross, SisterSong, USA and Dr Ruth Fletcher, Keele University. A panel discussion chaired by [...]
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It was announced yesterday that MiCandidate has been acquired in a management buy out for ‘an undisclosed sum’ by one of it’s former directors Paul Healy. Former directors Paddy Cosgrave and Oisin Hanrahan are moving to other projects. No idea where the fourth director has gone. You may of course remember the focus of this [...]
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Cóir’s message to their supporters after the result. There’s more to come. Dear Just a quick update to thank you all and to give a few important messages. Firstly, from everyone in Cóir, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the magnificent effort you put into making the second battle against Lisbon such [...]
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Next Saturday afternoon the Green Party will debate a revised programme for government which is currently under negotiation with Fianna Fáil. Other than animal welfare/hare coursing (Now backpedalled?) and further changes to NAMA there has been mention that a new framework for Equality monitoring and enforcement being on the agenda. Another chance for John Gormley [...]
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I’ll be in Dublin Castle tomorrow at the National Count Centre with Cian and Alexia and a load of foreign media scratching their heads and wondering what is going on! There is a liveblog already established for the count results and we are looking forward to pulling in news from around the country as the [...]
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