The Standards in Public Office Commission this week released a report into the state funding of political parties. The purpose of the state funding is laid out in the Electoral Act 1997 ” … the general conduct and management of the party’s affairs and the lawful pursuit by it of any of its objectives and, […]
Tags:Fianna Fáil·Fine Gael·Ireland·Political party·Politics·Standards in Public Office Commission
Next week Fine Gael is launching a site called Nationaldebt.ie – complete with one of those clocks that keeps moving upwards with Ireland’s national debt on it. They even have stats on the debt per household and per person. You can get a sneak preview on Leo Varadkar’s website. Our national debt increases by €35,578 […]
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The Donegal News reports this that former Fine Gael member and current current Letterkenny Town Councillor Jimmy Harte is considering joining the Labour Party. The paper reports that Councillor Harte confirmed contact had been made by senior Labour Party officials in recent weeks. He is considering the proposition and the carrot of a nomination to […]
Tags:Donegal North East·Fine Gael·Joe McHugh·Labour·Mae Sexton·Politics
Poor Enda Kenny – it’s not often that you’ll hear me say that. Today on reshuffle day the eye should be on Brian Cowen’s minimalist reshuffle and demoting of Mary Hanafin. But instead all eyes tonight are on Leo Varadkar who I mentioned yesterday as having a go at Garrett Fitzgerald over the weekend at […]
Tags:Fine Gael·Garrett FitzGerald·Jack Lynch·John Bruton·Leo Varadkar
This morning I though we had lost an elder statesman such were the gushing tributes on twitter (twibutes!) from Fergus O’Dowd Louth FG TD. Fergus had come to twitter a few months ago to talk about his weight loss on Operation Transformation. Now we get progress reports (3 Stone gone) interspersed with concerns about transport […]
Tags:Alan Dukes·Alan Shatter·Fine Gael·Garret Fitzgerald·LEO VARADKAR TD·Lucinda Creighton·Richard Bruton·Simon Coveney