Today is International Students Day and the Irish Second Level Students Union and the Children’s Rights Alliance are holding Your World – Your Say a Consultation on Children’s Views on their Engagement in European and International Levels of Decision-Making. 100 young people from all over the country are gathering in Dublin to talk about the [...]
Tags:Childrens Rights Alliance·European Parliament·Gay Mitchell·ISSU·Liam Aylward·Prionsias de Rossa·Sean Kelly MEP
Today Labour LGBT launches a leaflet on why LGBT people should vote yes to the Lisbon Treaty. You can see the leaflet here and here. The leaflet says that Lisbon is ‘Good for Gays’ (Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered people disappear again for the sake of alliteration) and makes three points First Ireland’s involvement in Europe [...]
Tags:Council of Europe·European Court of Human Rights·European Parliament·European Union·Institutions of the European Union·Labour Party·Lisbon Treaty
Thanks to the tip off I received and a break in the weather I headed up to see Enda Kenny and Fine Gael’s European Parliament Election Candidates unveil their poster for the campaign a few hours ago. It was interesting to see who turned up and who didn’t. Gay Mitchell MEP the lone candidate running [...]
Tags:Colm Burke·Enda Kenny·European Parliament·Fine Gael·Gay Mitchell·Jim Higgins·Joe O'Reilly·John Paul Phelan·Mairead McGuinness·Sean Kelly
In January 18 pieces of legislation were promised for publication by Goverment Chief Whip and Minister for State, Pat Carey. They were to be published by April 9, the last day of the current Dáil session. Seven of these bills were to emerge from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform including the Civil [...]
Tags:Chief Whip·Civil Partnership Bill·Department of Justice·European Parliament·European Union·Government
There will be many a nickname for (and many eyes drawn towards) the campaign for the European Parliament election in the North-West Constituency. This video was recently loaded on the Facebook Page of Jim Higgins, Fine Gael’s MEP for the region. The cartoon is two years old and was created by the European Movement in [...]
Tags:Declan Ganley·European Parliament·Jim Higgins·North-West Constituency
The blogger briefing for miCandidate.eu took place on Monday night and you can see a lot of what took place thanks to Alexia. I’ve written about this campaign before and had further responses from candidates in 4 political parties asking for my opinion on the product. Here’s that opinion so far… miCandidate.eu is a company [...]
Déirdre De Búrca a name too hard for a url? Instead we get WhatIStandfor.ie for the Green’s Candidate for the Dublin Constituency in the European Parliament Elections. We also get an interesting spelling of thousands according to this picture of Senator De Búrca’s billboard in today’s Irish Times. Senator De Búrca launched her campaign yesterday [...]
Image via Wikipedia As will become clearer later in the week I’m heading eastwards for a while in my blog reading. Anyone got good suggestions for blogs regarding the European Union/Commission/Parliament? I’m aware of the blogging commissioners (no Charlie McCreevy – his would be good for racing tips if it did exist!) but if there [...]
Tags:Charlie McCreevy·European Commission·European Parliament·European Union
The parachute is only needed for her journey from Wicklow, Senator Deirdre De Burca was this afternoon selected to run for the Green Party in Dublin the European Elections next year. Photo owned by antonkudris (cc) Now you wouldn’t know that she is running in Dublin from the press release I got from the Green [...]
Tags:European Parliament
The European Commission Representation and the European Parliament Office in Ireland and Irishelection.com are organising a conference on blogging and social media. The schedule for the day is available here and preregistration is required given the limited number of places available. The line up is impressive. Zack Exley Margot Wallström (By videolink) Damian O Broin [...]
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