You may remember that Pat Rabbitte and Dermot Ahern went head to head before Christmas on the cutting of the budget of the Equality Authority. Last night Labour’s Spokesperson on Justice released a statement in reaction to the resignation of 5 members of the authority. Today’s resignation of five more directors of the Equality Authority […]
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Five more members of the board of the Equality Authority have resigned. David Joyce from ICTU, Louise McDonnell a senior official in IMPACT (Public sector trade union) and Frank Goodwin from the Carers Association have informed the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern that the authority can no longer fulfill it’s core […]
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…For Rick O’Shea. I’m not sure why 2fm decided to mess with Rick’s show – I don’t think it was money but some managers ‘new idea’. I’ve been listening in the afternoons at work for a while now. Rick keeps me sane at work when I’m not out at meetings. I’m a talk radio junkie, […]
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Only 6 days into 2009, Brian Cowen is busy preparing us all for financial armageddon, but his predecessor, our Iar Thaoiseach is starting to make hay while the sun does not shine. Before Christmas we heard about the book deal – Richard Aldous is to be regarded as Ahern’s partner (no not that type!) in […]
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Photo owned by Môsieur J. (cc) The blogging year that is (the rest of it was great too!) 252 posts this year which is my busiest blogging year yet since I began in 2005. I thought like loads of others I would post a few links to some highlights in a very rapid recap as […]
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