- The School of Law in NUIG and Mason Hayes and Curran are holding a conference next week on Executive Accountability & Parliamentary Democracy. The keynote speaker is Omnbudsman Emily O’Reilly. The event on March 26th is free and further information and registration details are available on the conference website. – On March 16th AHEAD [...]
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Harry McGee has a very interesting post on the realities in the election including the positioning and freewheeling of Ruairi Quinn and Pat Rabbitte on policy matters. Glad to know others are noticing it. Pass Level Politics guides us to a good canvass (He’s a Labour Party canvasser but the advice applies well to all!) [...]
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Trapped in on bone protection duty. At a time of the year I can’t be trapped in but anyway, reports won’t write themselves I suppose. A few sneachta inspired diversions for you. – Fintan O’Toole has a new website and campaign for radical political reform. He was a good choice for MC on Saturday’s march [...]
Tags:#bailout #budget11·snow
Recovering from the use of the term ‘butt plug’ in the title of a blog post, a few links for you. (And unlike Miriam Lord I know the difference between a butt plug and a rampant rabbit but maybe she’s just given the former leader of the Labour Party a new nickname, I may never [...]
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The Dáil is on holiers and I am not. Excuse the lightness on the blogging as the day job keeps me occupied and tired. However you could peruse the programme for Stranger than Fiction – this is a documentary film festival taking place in the Irish Film Institute this weekend. Of note besides Pyjama Girls, [...]
Tags:Documentary film·Fawcett Society·Film festival·Ireland·LGBT·Oliver Stone·Tom Shakespeare·Youth
Poor Poor Peter Robinson You’ve met Slanket Enda? The Iona Institute’s David Quinn is now blogging for the Irish Catholic. He is opposing the campaign to rename Archbishop Ryan Park in Merrion Square as Oscar Wilde Park. He even wants the statue of Oscar removed! If you like me favour the renaming you’ll find [...]
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A few fluffers while fluffymaster is away… The 50 most important lesbians and gay men in British Politics Go on I dare you – name 5 such endangered species in Ireland? Obama told the UN yesterday that he will support a statement on lesbian and gay rights. The United States supports the UN Statement on [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Back from Brussels where I took part in a press trip organised by the European Commission representation in Ireland.* You’ll be reading a lot in the coming days about a Financial Stimulus package proposed by the European Commission after a request for same from the Council of Ministers last month. Details [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Charlie McCreevy·EU·European Commission·European Union·Secretary General of the European Commission
…at 7p.m. I’ll be joining Cultureshock’s presenter Fionn Davenport and some other guests to discuss Political Satire. Whilst satire goes back centuries and was present in essays, cartoons, theatre and even poetry, today we seem to mainly associate it with television and web related content. I’ve been watching a lot of it in the last [...]
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Mulley suggests we find our own fluffy links while he apartment hunts in Dublin (not true but it should be!!) – and as I’m a bit brain fogged link is all I can do (that previous post on the Airport was programmed ahead for my hospital sojourn.) First to a fluffy link refluffied which is [...]
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