Brilliant video from yesterday’s Dáil debates on the Budget. Pat Rabbitte tears into the Greens, who claim their fingerprints are “all over” the Budget. Neil has more. fastswfembed(“http://www.youtube.com/v/QxxHganG4Kg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0×006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1″,445,364,’518-0′);
April 9th, 2009 at
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As many of you will already have heard, I will be starting a new job in January. I’ve been appointed Labour Party campaign manager for the European Elections in Ireland East. Our candidate there is Nessa Childers (and yes, you do recognise the name, she’s the daughter of (Fianna Fáil) President Erskine H Childers [...]
December 29th, 2008 at
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Ciaran Cuffe was just on Morning Ireland complaining that the Czech President refused to sign into law a Bill allowing Civil Unions in the Czech Republic. Didn’t Ciaran and his colleagues vote against a Civil Unions Bill last year in the Dáil? How is that different? Posted from my phone from the car on the [...]
Bye, bye Progressive Democrats, it would appear. At least according to the media. I think we’ve all known they were on the way out since the last General Election. It was just a matter of timing. Harry McGee also writes a bit more about this on the Irish Times Politics blog (a great source of [...]
September 15th, 2008 at
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