Thanks to WorldByStorm for this email he received regarding a meeting in Leinster House tonight hosted by Dublin South TD and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan. The meeting is regarding the Civil Partnership Bill and the delgation attending are lobbying against the bill and seeking protection for those who wish to concientiously object to conducting the […]
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Eamon Ryan – A TD to all
February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
Deirdre De Burca’s Resignation
February 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
Great Letter and interesting timing given the chickenfeed passed to me yesterday. I’m out of the country for the weekend…I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this ‘cos this is not about Brussels. Cheques and balances. Now the last person I want to sound like is Guido so I’ll hop it (though his bank […]
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Green Party State Board Appointees
January 3rd, 2010 · 23 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
Colin Coyle in today’s Sunday Times reports on the appointment by Minister John Gormley of two former Green Party Councillors to the board of the Private Residential Tenancies Board where they can earn up to €25,000 per year in fees and expenses. Indeed one of the former councillors was one of a few electoral successes […]
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‘The Sentiment was Genuine’
December 13th, 2009 · 37 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
There’s a multitude of Paul Gogarty related groups on Facebook – one of the first to be set up has Paul himself posting on it this evening. You’d think he’d be lying low and hoping it would pass – but no this is all about keeping the story going while the bill itself is swept […]
Gogartygate Repository
December 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics
So we had the audio, The video and the Ringtone, and the unofficial transcript. All in 90 mins from the utterance. Update Kildarestreet.com have rushed out the transcript of the incident and urge us to ‘Get it before they remove it from the record!’ Harry McGee writes about the list of words that are banned […]
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