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Bertie Ahern’s retirement speech

December 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Bertie Wobbles, Irish Politics

It covers everything even the gays and lesbians!  And yes I know the date in the speech says Thursday 30 January 2010 – emotions must have taken him over! Speech by Mr. Bertie Ahern TD, to the O’Donovan Rossa Cumann, Dublin Central, Thursday 30th January 2010  [sic] Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to speak […]

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Mary O’Rourke to contest for FF selection for Election 2011

December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

Mary O’Rourke told those asking that she would consider her future over Christmas. And promptly on St. Stephen’s Day she tweets. (Yes I know I too was rather excited by the news that she had taken to ‘the twitter’, bathroom tweets agogo!)

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Tidings of goodwill …ummm

December 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Earlier this week Lord Mayor Cllr.  Gerry Breen (FG) took the opportunity of one of the coldest days of the year to speak out against beggars in the city of Dublin. The remarks were quite  outrageous and based about his social life in Dublin 2.  He repeated them on RTE news later that day and […]

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Video of Civil Partnership Commencement Order Ceremony released

December 25th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy

As reported earlier this week the commencement order for the  Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 was signed by Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern. A video has been released of the signing ceremony (can anyone point me to any other ocassion or legislation where such a ceremony has been […]

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Civil Partnership Act – Ministerial order signed

December 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy

The Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern has signed the commencement order which sees the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010 come into effect. GLEN released photos of the signing event – it is very unusual to see a signing event take place in Ireland, reminiscent of President Obama and […]

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