James Coyle is a candidate on the NUI panel for Seanad Eireann. He recently ran as an independent in the Dublin South East constituency in the General Election. Spot the celeb endorsement!
Entries Tagged as 'Seanad Eireann'
Ivor Callely and the €50 Cheque affrontery
July 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics
A bizarre evening of testimony from Ivor Callely at the reconvened sitting of the Seanad Select Committee to investigate members interests. As you may remember Ivor has been away in Norway and was unable to attend the committee until today. He spent a lot of time during the hearing (whilst not answering the committee’s questions) [...]
Seanad Debate on Civil Partnership Bill brought forward
July 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
Just in from from Senator Dan Boyle on twitter. Seanad business has been re-organised. Civil Partnership debate to be held on Wednesday and Thursday of next week (July 7th/8th). Momentum being used to get it done with? Afraid of letting it fester until the 13th? Whatever the reason it’s good that it will be sorted [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership·Civil Partnership Bill·Dan Boyle·Seanad Eireann
Civil Partnership Report Stage Thursday July 1
June 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Equality, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
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
Ivor Callely’s House – more than a mileage issue?
June 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Irish Politics
I’m back from the land of serrano ham, great weather and good company (fully paid for by myself) but while I was away I did catch Ivor Callely’s statement to the Seanad as he made it. It’s on video if you missed it! I have had a number of people get in touch about the [...]
Tags:Government·Seanad Eireann
‘Like a chased hare at a coursing event’
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics
The Minister was like a chased hare at a coursing event. He was getting attacked and questioned from all sides on this. This session of committee stage had to finish by 1:30pm and I reckon it couldn’t come soon enough for the Minister. He was taken away by his minders and we all went back [...]
Fine Gael and Late Late Show – handbags – actually no handbags!
March 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, MSM
Flicking through some press releases in my reader tonight I noted one from Fine Gael regarding their decision not to participate in the Late Late Show debate on the Seanad earlier this evening. I was wondering about all that testosterone on the top panel. Reading the statement I was none the wiser that RTE had [...]
Tags:Alex White·David Norris·Donie Cassidy·Fidelma Healy-Eames·Fine Gael·Frances Fitzgerald·Labour·Late Late Show·Paschal Donohue·Seanad Eireann·Seanad Reform
Barry Manilow’s Number 1 Fan in the Seanad
March 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics
..is none other than Labour’s blogging Senator Dominic Hannigan. During the order of business in the Seanad this week Fergal Quinn spoke about devices to keep young people away from shops and how they might play someone like Barry Manilow to deter young people from hanging outside. Up steps Dominic to contribute… I wish to [...]
Tags:Barry Manilow·Labour·Seanad Eireann·Senator Dominic hannigan
Ivor’s got a Forum
March 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession
Everyone seems to be on the une nouvelle idée gravytrain (I dare not say anything about new ideas, ideascampaign or whatever or else Senator Alan Kelly will be after me for robbing something or Aileen O’Toole will be telling us the umpteen thousandth idea she’s received.) Today’s inbox featured another buzzword laden missive from a [...]
Norris discloses Ministerial harassment over Equality Authority comments
December 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Equality, Equality Authority, Irish Politics
During the Order of Business in the Seanad this week Senator David Norris has raised issues concerning the resignation of Niall Crowley and cuts faced by the Equality Authority on several occasions. On Friday Senator Norris informed the house that he had been harrassed by a government minister about raising issues concerning matters related to [...]
Tags:David Norris·Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform·Equality Authority·Seanad Eireann
