Category: Irish Politics
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Government 'not to blame' over €150m pay system
Mary Harney has come out and said that the present government is not to blame. Huh? Is it just me or has the current government not been in power since 1997? Can you really blame it on either your colleagues (Cowen and Martin) or blame it on the previous administration? Horseshit m’lady. Noted Harney: “The…
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McDowell
Dick has been posting on the Examiner’s story by Dan Buckley. I don’t see him linking to the absolutely fascinating interview done on the News at One. So here it is folks!. (Click ok when the error comes up, then press play) McDowell really loses it.
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Interview on 5-7 live
I think you should all go and listen to Boucher-Hayes interview Anthony O’Sullivan. Makes you think to say the least.
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The End of the Rainbow
Caoimhe recently pointed to an article by Tom Friedman in the New York Times about the Irish economy: Ireland’s advice is very simple: Make high school and college education free; make your corporate taxes low, simple and transparent; actively seek out global companies; open your economy to competition; speak English; keep your fiscal house in…
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Some questions for the Irish government
Richard Waghorne recently noted the staggering statistics about China in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs: Consider this sobering information: the most recent influenza pandemic, of 1968-69, emerged in China, when its population was 790 million; today it is 1.3 billion. In 1968, the number of pigs in China was 5.2 million; today it is…
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Brian Rossiter
Vincent Browne has taken this story to heart. It is an extremely serious incident, and one that I believe people do not know enough about. In fact it’s not extremely serious, it’s blatantly and completely unbelievable that this could happen in any country that claims to be a democracy. The long and short of it…
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New blog
Right, I have got a domain name, installed WordPress, and will be testing Drupal. I will decide on which software to use after that.
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McBrearty
I have mentioned this before, but after listening to the VB show tonight I am convinced. I feel it my duty as a citizen to act as a filter for what is coming from the Morris Tribunal, at least, perhaps taking in other Tribunals – and future Garda corruption. I feel a weblog should be…
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VB Show
Fascinating stuff on the Vincent Browne show now…
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Morris Tribunal
Apologies to readers. Believe it or not I have been busy. What doing you may ask. Well for one, pouring over the detail in the second report of the Morris Tribunal. The 688 page document makes for interesting reading. It’s almost the 8th of June, and already the explosive report has been all but forgotten.…