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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Your time is now! Finally thanks to Pearse Doherty and Sinn Fein taking and winning a case that other political parties were to busy to do (or hadn’t thought it up themselves) the Government have been forced into moving the writ for a bye-election after 16 months. For the next three weeks you will be […]
The amount of rubbish written and spoken about ministerial cars in recent weeks is now culminating in a stupid twitter campaign about tweeting when you see a ministerial merc anywhere. The country is facing anywhere upto €7bn in cuts in the next 6 weeks, we are capitalising banks in multiple times the cuts to the […]
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Some thoughts on Claiming Our Future. What happened yesterday in the RDS was something new for Ireland, 1000 people around 100 tables talking about Ireland and what the priorities for the future should be. Each table was mixed with representatives from various sectors and facilitators were trained to lead discussions and come to consensus on […]
Claiming Our Future is taking place in the RDS today. 1000 people from all over the country gathering in a type of citizen assembly to talk about the kind of Ireland they want to live in. A movement for progressive, sustainable change. A live video stream of the event is available here. The event kicks […]