Leo Varadkar has recently returned from a period of voluntary work in Mongolia with VSO. (Senator Dominic Hannigan also went and blogged about it in detail.) I’m not sure how Leo got on during his stint but maybe he needs a longer trip away. In fact I would hereby like to commence a campaign to […]
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I’m keeping an eye to the ballot measure which will be voted on in California on gay marriage in November. Millions of dollars are rolling in on both sides of the campaign and lots of public service announcements etc. are being made. I found this (via Feministe) last nightfrom Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reflecting on campaigns […]
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Late last year the Council of Europe’s Human Rghts Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, conducted an official visit to Ireland upon an invitation from the Irish government. There was little coverage of the visit at the time but he met with statutory and non statutory bodies involved in human rights and visited locations including prisons, mental health […]
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Maybe you are like me and this morning received a copy of the March 2008 newsletter from Dublin City Council listing properties throughout the city which will be available for purchase under the affordable housing scheme. There are a variety of properties on offer in Dublin 1, 2, 17 and the Docklands (that’s Dublin 1 […]
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The Marriage Equality initiative was launched yesterday, I’ll have more later in the week on the issues raised by the campaign but I have some immediate thoughts and questions. The Civil Registration Act amendment move is one that has been called for before and it would be good to get an answer from Government that […]
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