Senator David Norris’s election campaign is launching later today. Not without it’s problems so far (money!) the campaign has been brought forward a few weeks. Norris needs to get the nominations of twenty members of the Oireachtas or four county councils in order to stand for election. Norris is also running for Seanad Eireann on […]
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On the RTE Radio News at One today when asked about the view that the two female cabinet ministers were given stereotypically female posts Ruairi Quinn said. This is one of those kind of questions that you can’t win either way. Women know more about children because they spend more time with them. I rest […]
On Tuesday night I wrote a post in preparation for the new Cabinet. Well one member of it. I had it nearly finished and saved ready to go after the announcement. After the annoucement of the members of the cabinet today I didn’t publish it and thought about trashing it. But there it is for […]
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Congratulations to everyone on their election. I’m forward to lots of changes and much more action and plain speaking in the Dail. That large majority is going to be strange enough. It is going to be very difficult to manage it and also to show TD’s actually doing something other than reading pre-prepared scripted speeches. […]
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From Enda Kenny’s weekly email to FG members tonight I know the Irish people are weary. They have been lead down a path of despair and desolation in recent years that was not of their own making. I am acutely aware of the untold and unjustified suffering so many have endured, and continue to endure, […]
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