Someone’s been getting a bit of flack for his comments last week, but is Leo blaming it on the reporting or the reading of the reporting or misreading? Note the last line – all his own work! From today’s Irish Times Madam, – Last week I spoke in the Dáil on the Civil Partnership Bill […]
Tags:Family·LEO VARADKAR TD·Tax
Next week is European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. There are a number of developments recently in screening for cervical cancer – some I’ve previously written about which have concerned me but it’s vitally important that women continue to be screened for the disease. (And for the many lovely lesbians who read this blog – I […]
Tags:Cervical cancer·CervicalCheck·Human papillomavirus·Ireland
Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, was responding to the committee stage of the Social Welfare Bill (No. 2) in the Dáil today – (after Gogartygate). The bill provides for the cuts in social welfare of 4.1% for all social welfare payments for those under 65 and a cut in childnd I benefit. […]
Fresh from interrupting the Today with Pat Kenny outside broadcast in the Savoy Cinema in O’Connell Street in Dublin, the Community Development Alliance launched CAMA outside the GPO yesterday. (You can listen to the interruption here – (real player required and it’s about 41 minutes in.) Conor Lenihan and George Lee were said to be […]
Tags:CAMA·Community Development Alliance·John Curran·Pat Kenny
While unions, government and the private sector bicker over pay cuts, higher taxation and ‘you earn more than I do’, communities across the land are being decimated by cuts, amalgamations and the steamroller that is the politics of bulldozing the oppressed. The cuts in services in the field of anti-poverty projects, community childcare, community health, […]
Tags:Community development·Disability·Drug rehabilitation·Government·Ireland·Poverty·Society and Culture