Category: Irish Politics
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Liveblogging FF
I have to ask this because I was showing some of my fellow bloggers at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis the figures. How many people were following the liveblogging exactly? It’s not an easy thing to measure, but some of the indications are pretty surprising. I was taking photos with my iPhone and tweeting them,…
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Sobering figures
Irish companies laid off 6,337 workers last month, an increase of 123% on the year- earlier period, the government said today. And the sobering bit: Irish alcohol consumption declined 6% in 2008, the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland said in an e-mailed statement today. Alcohol consumption in Ireland is now back to 1997 levels, the…
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That dinner again
Thanks to the Sindo we have this from a Fine Gael spokesman: Mr Kenny’s spokesman yesterday said that when Mr Kenny had questioned the Taoiseach about whether any members of the Cabinet were involved in facilitating the so-called ‘Golden Circle’ he did not have a specific individual minister in mind. He added, however, that it…
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Text of Noel Dempsey's speech to Ard Fheis 2009
Sorry I didn’t get the video. But you can’t win ’em all… Noel Dempsey, T.D., Minister for Transport Friends, tonight is one of the most important nights in Fianna Fáil’s history. Each one of us here knows why. Each and every one of us knows the human truth of the collapse of the global economy.…
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Liveblogging the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis
Made it to City West… very quick drive up. Myself and Suzie are here in one of the press rooms. I will try and update this post as I go, as well as update on Twitter. You can follow everyone who is either here, or commenting on the Ard Fheis, at Scibble Live. Just recorded…
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Fianna Fail Ard Fheis (a convention of sorts)
I hope to get up to Citywest early tomorrow and spend the day at the FF Ard Fheis. Other bloggers will be in attendance, and the tag on Twitter will be #ffaf.
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Fianna Fail website relaunches
Just in time for the Ard Fheis. It is Obamaified. They are also on Flickr (no photos up yet), Twitter, YouTube (three videos?) and Facebook. I guess we all have to start somewhere. Somehow, though, it all just feels empty. Or maybe a better word would be devoid of something. Ah. That’s what it was.…
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Anne Heraty
Anne Heraty, formerly of the Anglo board, has resigned from the boards of Bord na Mona and Forfas. She has already resigned from the board of the Irish Stock Exchange.
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Gerry Gannon
Gerry Gannon has been a builder/property developer since the 1980s. (Not to be confused with the anti-divorce lawyer of the same name) As far back as 1986, Mr Gannon – through the firm Structural Developments Ltd – was building at Castle Village in Celbridge. In 1988, Gannon, through another firm – Noteworthy Limited – with…
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Ansbacher and Anglo
Anthony draws some valid comparisons between the Ansbacher scandal and the Anglo scandal in a mega post. He is right, we are getting the same guff as we got in 2002 before Ansbacher was published, and we are getting the same guff now.