There is going to be a lot of revisionism and distorting of the facts in the next four weeks and I am sure we’ll be catching and factchecing a lot of claims along the way. Some of it is off before the campaign has begun, no surprise there! On Friday Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Brian Lenihan'
Handbags over Civil Partnership and Government Collapse
January 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · General Election 2011, Green Party, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships
Tags:#cpbill·#ge11·Brian Lenihan·Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act·Green Party
Freefall fairly free from oestrogen
September 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Feminism, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Recession
Lenihan was at the races when the head of the ECB called and he didn’t remember Cowen swearing during the talks where the Government guarantee was agreed on. And oh Brian Lenihan can speak French. What else can we garner from last nights Freefall other than the programme makers love shots of traffic and big […]
Irish Emergency Budget Speech April 7 2009
April 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession
A video of the majority of the supplementary bludget speech from Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan to Dáil Eireann yesterday. The row at the beginning over the press getting the speech first is very interesting! I’ve not watched it all through again (once is enough for anyone!) but if you notice anything startling leave a […]
Tags:Brian Lenihan·Dáil Éireann·Ireland·Minister for Finance·Speech