Yesterday afternoon Mary Harney released this from the Department of Health. I heard something during my pre-election nap and knew I was not dreaming. This was a perfect day for dumping bad news but this is news can’t just be dumped. The campaign to vaccinate young woman against HPV was not without it’s flaws as […]
Tags: Irish Politics
We’ve live blogged the debates, commented on the Irish mentions, blogged about anything and everything, watched the youtubes, and some have even gone over to work on it or watch it. Tomorrow night Irish bloggers and non bloggers are going to watch the votes come in, get lost amidst the electoral colleges and see the […]
Tags: Blogging · Live Blogging · US Election 2008
‘God, if I hear John McCain utter the words ‘yes my friends’ again…I’ll…’ Charlie Bird blogging from the US presidential election. He’s only got one post so far but I have high hopes! (I could say that anything would will be better than George Hamilton’s culinary tour of China but I’ll hold my tounge!) Mark […]
Tags: Blogging · Irish Media · US Election 2008
A. When it’s an ‘expenditure control measure’. Read the full text here. Deirdre de Burca spent time telling Vincent Browne last night on TV3 that the Greens would have huge input into the amendment to the Labour Party’s private members motion on the Education Cuts/ Class size increases etc. tonight. They spent a lot of […]
Tags: Irish Politics · Recession
While I was away I saw that GLEN had it’s 2007 annual report launched by Sean Aylward, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on behalf of the Minister Dermot Ahern who was not able to attend due to urgent government business. On the same day the Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, released […]
Tags: Equality · LGBT · Same Sex Partnerships