In January 18 pieces of legislation were promised for publication by Goverment Chief Whip and Minister for State, Pat Carey. They were to be published by April 9, the last day of the current Dáil session. Seven of these bills were to emerge from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform including the Civil […]
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This email arrived in my inbox at 9.12pm – if you signed up to hear more about Fianna Fáil on their new website you were included. I think we’re talking 17,000 plus addresses but I’m open to correction on that. What do you think of it? More Obamaification? Dear friend, I’ve just come off stage […]
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The sound is a teeny bit out but if you want to catch our sombre/edgy Taoiseach’s statement on Expenditure Control and Economic Strategy I had a go at uploading the file I was sent today. (Next step will be recording live output online, never did I think I’d be interested but in the national interest […]
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Image via Wikipedia Seán Power is the latest junior minister (with responsibility for Natural Resources and Information Society) to offer himself up for the sake of the nation. Yesterday it was was bumbling national treasure Martin Mansergh(only a national treasure for his bumbling, flustered, screeching ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’ appearances). Interestingly Sean Power used the […]