Today’s Wicklow Times is reporting that Senator Deirdre de Burca is packing her bags and heading for Brussels to work in the cabinet of Ireland’s new European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn . Now you may remember the last time Senator de Burca hitched the parachute to her back and flew. This time she is going further […]
Some in Fianna Fáil think that those who wish to have their gender legally recognised as the gender they acquire do so for financial gain or to fiddle welfare systems. This is news to me! I don’t get how someone who changes their gender is better off financially (particularly as women still only earn 4/5ths […]
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Press Release in from Green Party – note the mention of the possiblity of a freedom of concience amendment. Cuffe welcomes introduction of Civil Partnership Bill to Dáil -Bill will be introduced next Thursday The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Civil Partnership Bill is to be introduced to the Dáil next week. […]
In the mid 90’s the joke about the Greens was that they didn’t care much about divorce once the fridge was disposed of correctly in the separation. This was the opinion of many regarding Green Party commitment to social justice issues. I know that this is an unfair description with regard to many Green Party […]
I’m in the RDS this afternoon for the Green Party Conference on the Renewed Programme for Government. There is a liveblog running and Green Party members are inside the hall tweeting. You can read the full document online and it was available a good hour before the printed version. Loads of reaction online to the […]