This evening Senator Ivor Callely was suspended from membership of Fianna Fáil pending an investigation – this follows his resignation of the whip of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party last month. Ogra Fianna Fáíl have tonight released a statement saying that they are going to move a motion looking for his expulsion from the party. [...]
Minister Pat Carey has been seeking questions from members of the public and members of his party. He invited people to email or tweet him with the questions. Today those of us who are on the FF supporters mailing list (the things I do for my readers !) received a video of a recent meeting [...]
Tags:Fianna Fáil·Pat Carey
The report stage of the Civil Partnership Bill will take place in the Dáil tomorrow night between 5pm and 9 pm. (Amendments tabled for debate) There is a liveblog available for commentary and you will be able to watch the debate on the liveblog or you can watch it by picking a stream from the [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dáil Éireann·Fianna Fáil·Green·Politics·Seanad Eireann
Dermot Ahern is interviewed today in the Irish Times. He’s Mr. Nice Guy really – well this is what he wants to let the readers (and FF TD’s who may vote in a leadership election) know. He has quite a bit to say on the Civil Partnership Bill. AS THE MURPHY REPORT into the Catholic [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dermot Ahern·Fianna Fáil·The Irish Times
The Standards in Public Office Commission this week released a report into the state funding of political parties. The purpose of the state funding is laid out in the Electoral Act 1997 ” … the general conduct and management of the party’s affairs and the lawful pursuit by it of any of its objectives and, [...]
Tags:Fianna Fáil·Fine Gael·Ireland·Political party·Politics·Standards in Public Office Commission
Remember the last time Blue State Digital, who include some of the creatives behind the Obama campaign, came to Dublin? John Drennan delights (as only he can!) in telling readers of the Sunday Independent that BSD are coming back and are going to address a meeting of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party on Tuesday night. [...]
Tags:Blue State Digital·Fianna Fáil·Ireland·Parties·Politics
So as expected there were politicians giving up and ‘voluntarily forgoing’ their pensions all day. Labour’s 3 ministerial pension holders went first (not before time) followed by the Fine Gael crew (not before time either) and then came Bertie (Fianna Fáil were so fed up dealing with requests from the Press for comments on Bertie [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Fianna Fáil·Ireland·Jim McDaid·Liam Aylward·Michael Woods·Politics
Interesting footage from a protest last week by Kerry Public Sector Workers. They went to protest at the clinic of Tom McEllstrim TD, a Fianna Fáil backbencher. Tom warned them that they would face more cuts under any alternative government and he made a jibe at George Lee and also said his expenses were the [...]
Tags:Fianna Fáil·Teachta Dála
With the departure of George Lee (who?) a by-election may be on the cards in Dublin South, but it’s not expected anytime soon. However one of the possible candidates looks like he has a bit more time to canvass. Shay Brennan, a vice president for corporate treasury in Anglo Irish Bank ( FF candidate and [...]
Tags:Anglo Irish Bank·Dublin South·Fianna Fáil·George Lee·Ireland·Shay Brennan
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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