– Independent Candidate for Cork South Central, David McCarthy, is blogging the campaign at Campaigntrail.ie It will be interesting to see if the Independent Alliance for Change he mentions develops and if this is a version of Profit Before People (Copyright – Miriam Lord) PDNua (Copyright mise agus Cathal) or the League of Extra Ordinary […]
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Labour Party deny tapping Pringle to run in Donegal South West
January 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Labour Party deny tapping Pringle to run in Donegal South West · General Election 2011, Irish Politics
Friday’s Donegal Daily and Donegal News ran lead stories regarding an approach alleged to have been made to Thomas Pringle to run for the Labour Party in Donegal South West constituency in the General Election. Pringle polled well in the Donegal South West by-election and he beat the party candidate Cllr Frank McBrearty Jnr. in […]
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How To Get To An Election In Ireland
January 24th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics
From Never Felt Better The last ten days in six minutes – well it’s better that someone in Ireland did it before someone in Taiwan produced it! (Ok I’d quite like to see the Taiwanese version on NMA!)
Endangered species – The Irish Cabinet Minister
January 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Endangered species – The Irish Cabinet Minister · Irish Politics
All together now, to the tune of Ten Green Bottles 7 Ministerial bottles hanging on the wall, 7 Ministerial bottles hanging on the wall and if one ministerial bottle should accidentally fall a constitutional crisis could befall us all! Article 28 of Bunreacht na hEireann (the Irish Constitution) states that the Government must not be […]
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What have the Green Party ever done for us?
January 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · General Election 2011, Green Party, Irish Politics
(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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