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Category: Irish Politics

  • Facebook group update

    I am still amazed. We can no longer keep count of invites to the Cervical Cancer Vaccine Facebook group. When it went beyond 6,000 invites, Facebook simply stopped showing how many are now invited. So the revised figures, just 60 hours into the campaign: 1,781 members 6,000+ invited (could be way higher) 61 wall posts…

  • Cervical cancer vaccine Facebook group

    I’ve been helping Red Mum out with her Facebook group on the cervical cancer vaccine debacle. The figures are nothing short of staggering. In just over 30 hours the group has gone from 1 member to nearly 900. The number of invites has gone from 300 to more than 5,000 in the same time period.…

  • Old people protest

    I sympathise with their plight. But by the same token I have to ask myself three questions, based in part on instinct and in part on statistical probability. 1. How many of the old people protesting voted Fianna Fail? 2. How many of the old people protesting have always voted Fianna Fail? 3. How many…

  • The Punchestown scandal

    Ah more memories…Batt O’Keeffe defends the indefensible. March 30, 2004.

  • Noel Demspey on PPARS

    I dug it out from the RTE archives. Remember this? €170m wasted.

  • Joe Behan resigns

    I can’t help but think it would have been more effective to resign as a TD, not just from FF. Update: I’ve just heard a rumour that Noel O’Flynn has also resigned from FF. Will try and find out if it’s true. Hmm nothing confirmed yet, but at the very least he will not vote…

  • Methodist Church destroyed

    This really makes for disturbing reading: A CHURCH that had been ‘saved’ from demolition was knocked down anyway early this morning. At 6am, residents near Croke Park woke to the sound of a bulldozer-type piece of machinery being driven into the front of the church. The destruction on the quiet Jones’ Road, beside the GAA…

  • Brian Lenihan's speech in Wordle

    It will also feature in tomorrow’s Irish Examiner. I took out the sub-heads from the text – words that Lenihan didn’t actually utter. He obviously says “Government” a lot, but I think it serves as a good anchor to the rest of the words.

  • PPARS

    October 2005: When you are talking in terms of massive and unprecedented growth, created by this Government, in a €41 billion budget, the level of expenditure of misspent money is relatively very, very small. Then Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey, speaking about the HSE’s controversial €150 million PPARS computer system. I bet they are wishing…

  • A matter of time

    As P O’Neill points out, Dell are in the process of making a decision on their operations here. It seems clear now that Dell will pull out of Limerick altogether. They might also pull of Ireland entirely. That’s an instant 10,000 redundancies – more people on the dole. Related industries will also be affected, which…