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Bounce

February 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics

The other word of the day yesterday in addition to Twitter was Bounce Let’s turn to Maman Poulet’s political terminology dictionary (a fictional entity for the moment!) Definition: Fianna Fáil manoeuvre to get reluctant/confused junior partners into vote on sticky issue as quickly as possible before they can think for themselves Being Bounced and not […]

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Did you miss the State of the Nation Address from Cowen?

February 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Recession

You did? Me too! I was watching the RTE news at 6-1. But RTE’s Political staff David Davin Power and David McCullagh told us on the 9 pm news tonight that the press conference which was shown in part on 6-1 news was actually a State of Nation address! Actually government press officers and FF […]

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