In addition to the infographic that they released at the time the government collapsed today the Green Party showed a video at the start of their press conference launching their manifesto. The interview with the male couple who were the first to have their relationship recognised by the state is of note.
The Disability invisibility cloak is being lifted on the General Election. Now lets see if the parties and their representatives can talk about it! The Labour Party launched their manifesto today The section on Disability A fair deal for people with disabilities Labour remains committed to an approach to disability in Ireland based on rights, [...]
I was at the Green Party manifesto launch earlier. Present with a number of their new candidates were the parliamentary party John Gormley, Eamon Ryan, Mary White, Dan Boyle, Ciaran Cuffe. Not sure about Mark Dearey but the person whose absence surprised me was Paul Gogarty – the candidate from Dublin Mid West – he [...]
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There is going to be a lot of revisionism and distorting of the facts in the next four weeks and I am sure we’ll be catching and factchecing a lot of claims along the way. Some of it is off before the campaign has begun, no surprise there! On Friday Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, [...]
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Niall Byrne is the Green Party Candidate for Wicklow. I’m not sure he has the hang of this video lark.
(With apologies to the Green Party and Monty Python writers.) Following their departure from government this afternoon the Green Party have released an infographic detailing their time in government in the past three years. The Party listed the following as their top ten Helped create 20,000 new green jobs: through initiatives such as National Insulation [...]
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So I did say it was going to be a very long day. Worse off then when we started, people who are not going for re-election convince a Taoiseach who doesn’t reveal information and can’t run the country that he has done nothing wrong. So he’s going to have a chat with a load of [...]
Paul Gogarty TD was on his way to a Green Party Parliamentary Party meeting tonight (sans childer we presume) in the Department of Agriculture and he spotted this in a kitchenette. Who says our Civil Service is devoid of a sense of humour? There is a market opportunity for Deputy O’Rourke here – if I [...]
Interesting press release (aka kite being flown) in tonight from Mary White, Minister for State for Equality and Deputy Leader of the Green Party. (She’s even tweeting about it!) Ms. White was speaking out against recent comments which said that pensioners can bear cuts and said that they ‘were both insulting and inaccurate.’ “Studies for [...]
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The Order of Business in the Seanad brings up all sorts of kites to be flown by Senators checking in for their part time job which attracts the payment of an amount many times over the national minimum wage. Today Green Party appointed Senator Mark Dearey joined some of his kin in the SME sector [...]
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