The Corrigan Brothers strike again (h/t Iain Dale)
Entries from February 2010
One door closes, a constituency awaits
February 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession
With the departure of George Lee (who?) a by-election may be on the cards in Dublin South, but it’s not expected anytime soon. However one of the possible candidates looks like he has a bit more time to canvass. Shay Brennan, a vice president for corporate treasury in Anglo Irish Bank ( FF candidate and [...]
Tags:Anglo Irish Bank·Dublin South·Fianna Fáil·George Lee·Ireland·Shay Brennan
Bounce
February 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
The other word of the day yesterday in addition to Twitter was Bounce Let’s turn to Maman Poulet’s political terminology dictionary (a fictional entity for the moment!) Definition: Fianna Fáil manoeuvre to get reluctant/confused junior partners into vote on sticky issue as quickly as possible before they can think for themselves Being Bounced and not [...]
Form an orderly queue there
February 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media
Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned [...]
Green
February 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
Green Party elected officials seem to be having problems with their consciences at the moment. And indeed it’s not only Deirdre de Burca who is calling John Gormley’s leadership into question. As I said on Friday there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that has very little to do with Willie O’Dea. The [...]
Budget Travel and the missing USB stick
February 17th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
When Budget Travel went into liquidation last year, the official liquidator contacted the email database and told us that they were going to sell the database to an interested bidder. An opt out was given to subscribers. I didn’t do anything about it personally- was surprised by the contact but given the tough times in [...]
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Eamon Ryan – A TD to all
February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
Thanks to WorldByStorm for this email he received regarding a meeting in Leinster House tonight hosted by Dublin South TD and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan. The meeting is regarding the Civil Partnership Bill and the delgation attending are lobbying against the bill and seeking protection for those who wish to concientiously object to conducting the [...]
Willie O’Dea’s Personal Statement to the Dáil
February 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Irish Politics
In case you missed it earlier! Interpretations and comments are very welcome as I’m not up to speed on everything. Note Enda Kenny’s intention to bring a motion of no confidence against him. Minister Willie O’Dea’s personal statement 16 Feb 2010 from maman poulet on Vimeo. Update – the Affidavit of the TD and government [...]
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Deirdre De Burca’s Resignation
February 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
Great Letter and interesting timing given the chickenfeed passed to me yesterday. I’m out of the country for the weekend…I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this ‘cos this is not about Brussels. Cheques and balances. Now the last person I want to sound like is Guido so I’ll hop it (though his bank [...]
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