Look what President Obama just did. Maybe the Taoiseach can give us the tour round his new online gaff.
Entries from July 2010
Minister Mary Hanafin sends support to Irish Gay Games Competitors
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, LGBT, Sport
10,000 people from all over the world are expected to converge on Cologne for the Gay Games which begin tomorrow. The Irish Ambassador to Germany is hosting a reception for the Irish participants tomorrow afternoon. Minister for Arts and Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin TD. has written to Team Ireland giving her good wishes and [...]
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Visible Lives Study – LGBT 55+
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Equality, LGBT
The first national research programme documenting the experiences of LGBT people aged 55 and older has been launched recently and reserachers are seeking participants for research into the lives and concerns of Older LGBT’s. This is the area I spent 3 years researching for the never completed PhD and I think the initiative will contribute [...]
Partying for Partnership
July 28th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
Mary White TD, Minister of State for Equality, Integration and Human Rights sent me and lots of other people an invitation to a party which is happening tomorrow night to mark the passing of legislation for Civil Partnerships. The Party for Partnership is being held upstairs at the Odeon on Harcourt Street. The Odeon is [...]
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Ask Minister Pat Carey – if you are a FF member
July 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Social Media
Minister Pat Carey has been seeking questions from members of the public and members of his party. He invited people to email or tweet him with the questions. Today those of us who are on the FF supporters mailing list (the things I do for my readers !) received a video of a recent meeting [...]
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Labour LGBT to lodge complaint against Cllr. Keaveney
July 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, LGBT
A statement from Labour LGBT was issued this morning. At a meeting last night we decided to formally initiate the party complaints procedure against Cllr Colm Keaveny. We believe his recent comments in the Sunday Tribune are contrary to party policy and inconsistent with the principles and objects we stand for. The group also issued [...]
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Caption?
July 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Irish Politics
Photo thanks to DFmagazine.ie Back from Chad is the Minister… eh no back from Chad is all the equipment, landed in Dublin Port today. Minister for Defence, Tony Killeen, was there to kick the tyres, and check for rust presumably. The soldiers who were on the peace keeping mission in Africa arrived back weeks ago. [...]
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Labour Party distance on Keaveney comments
July 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, LGBT
A spokesperson for the Labour Party has distanced the party from comments made by Cllr Colm Keaveney on medical treatment required by people undergoing gender reassignment. In a telephone call this afternoon the spokesperson said that Cllr. Keaveney’s comments were personal and not in line with party policy, he said that the Labour Party believed [...]
Playing political games with people’s health
July 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT
Colm Keaveney is a Labour Party Councillor in East Galway and a SIPTU official. He has stood unsuccessfully in two general elections for the party, left the party for a while in 2007 and rejoined in 2008. In today’s Sunday Tribume, Cllr. Keaveney gives his opinion on the matter of HSE spending and how one [...]
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Minister Pat Carey on same sex marriage and other matters
July 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
It’s been difficult not to notice that Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht affairs Pat Carey has hit the ground running in terms of visiting community projects around the country and trying to offer soothing words to the decimated sector. Minister Carey has a lot of making up to do given the bad relations which [...]
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