I was invited by the Oireachtas Communications Unit to the Dáil to watch and tweet some of the proceedings of today’s debate to mark Europe Day. Myself, Ken Curtin, David Cochrane from Politics.ie and Billie Sparks from the European Movement were in attendance. There was little to report on the debate itself or that which […]
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Now that it has all settled down after the general and Seanad elections, some thoughts turn to Aras an Uachtarain. David Norris is traversing the country looking for a nomination and is beginning to address council meetings and seek support. Today he’ll be looking for Wexford County Council’s support. Dragon Sean Gallagher announced his intention […]
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A guest Post from Niall Crowley from Claiming Our Future CLAIMING OUR FUTURE ‘IDEAS’ – TACKLING INCOME INEQUALITY The International Monetary Fund says that it is needed to sustain economic growth. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, authors of the Spirit Level, found that it leads to higher levels of life expectancy and educational attainment and […]
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The Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn has been making his inaugural speeches to the Teachers Union conferences this week. Yesterday he spoke at the TUI conference and raised the issue of lesbian and gay teachers and the possible impact of equality legislation protections regarding religious ethos. Before concluding I want to consider one further issue […]
The story that is Ravi Singh and his galloping round the world continues. Since his spell in Ireland helping Fine Gael (Many in party HQ crew could not wait to see the back of him) Ravi has moved on to Turkey and other countries, in fact anyone that will pay him to either speak or […]