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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Politics'

The Minister for Tourism who has to travel to relax

April 26th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Irish Politics

Leo Varadkar can’t go for a pint. He’s ‘too famous’. We can add this to Leo is single and Leo has a personal trainer Leo need not worry if people might not be interested in him – the searches to this blog for his name and his marital status are in the thousands with a […]

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Enda needs to know the story

April 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments · Equality, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, LGBT

If you are a lgbt teacher and feel like writing a letter about Section 37 of the Employment Equality Act, the Taoiseach may need a lesson in his own programme for government. The publicly identified bit in the programme for government may need a bit of editing too while you are at the suggesting! Labour […]

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Wash, rinse, repeat, suds

April 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession

I’ve been cranky for the past few weeks, unwell, computer problems and a heavy workload. The bullshit from the media on the property market isn’t making me feel much better. Friday’s auction of ‘distressed’ properties stank of those queues back in the tiger time that were seen overnight outside estate agents for the purchase of […]

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Bertie talks about Nigeria… again

April 14th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Irish Politics

Today’s Irish Times covers an interview given to a business research publication on Nigeria and what Bertie Ahern thinks must be done to improve the economy and how they can learn from Ireland’s woes.  (h/t to Mark Coughlan who brought the interview to my attention on Tuesday! ) Amongst other issues he mentions Public Private […]

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More on that Gilmore meeting with Irish American LGBT ‘reps’

March 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, LGBT

A response to a written question from Sean Kenny on Eamon Gilmore’s trip to New York and Washington elicted the following information on that meeting with lesbian and gay ‘representatives‘. I had a very a useful meeting with representatives from the Irish American Lesbian and Gay community about a range of issues of concern to […]

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