The shambles and uncertainty that is Irish politics at the moment may effect the passage of legislation on civil partnerships due to be debated before the General Election. The Finance Bill published last Friday was due to be amended during the committee stage to contain provisions for the recognition of Civil Partnerships within tax systems. […]
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Before the Green Party meet tomorrow and before the votes of confidence take place in the government next week the various parties may wish to check if the lame duck Taoiseach is definitely going to run for the Dáil again and will be relected as a TD . See Paul Daly’s post on Human Rights […]
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I am still processing yesterday. A bit of me can’t believe Brian Cowen got it so wrong and then the rest of me looks at the last two years of poor communication and appalling decisions, arrogance and lack of understanding or contact with the public and completely understands how it got to this. He was […]
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Such a mess of it he made but the Taoiseach finally set the date for the election. Doubt he will be doing a video to his members to explain what he was trying to do before his hand was forced. At last the messing is over. Or maybe it has just begun. I’ve a feeling […]
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We’re not thick, well most of us anyway. Replacing FIVE cabinet ministers from one of the worst if not the worst government in Irish history two months before an election is a farce and two fingers to democracy. You know all about throwing fingers at democracy we know with the blocking of bye-elections. Stop playing […]
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