Just in off the tweets… In tomorrows Irish Times MRBI Poll the Labour Party are the big movers up 10% to 24&. The Government disapproval rating ranks at 85%. Fianna Fail 22 -5 Fine Gael 32 -2 Labour 24 +10 Sinn Fein 9 +1 Greens 4 no change, Government Approval 14%, disapproval 85%
Tags:Ireland·Irish Times·Politics
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 […]
Tags:Government·Ireland·Public sector·Public Sector Pay Pensions·Ruairi Quinn·Taoiseach
I went to see Milk tonight and loved it. I’m not a good reviewer of books and movies – I find myself going off on tangents – just go see it! (Tangent alert coming up!) I couldn’t help myself from getting angry though at the lack of a Milk figure or politics in operation in […]
Yesterday Brian Cowen told (shouted at actually) Dáil Eireann that he’ll be leading the country his way. Which of course led me and a few others to be thinking of Frank Sinatra and our dear leader singing a long a Frank. This led me to watch Leaders Questions this morning in the Dáil waiting for […]
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Image via Wikipedia Have you noticed? Mary Coughlan has a giggling problem. She did it twice last night on Questions and Answers and has done it on numerous occassions when she takes questions in Dáil Eireann. It’s not a funny ha ha laugh – it’s a nervous laugh at something you can’t agree with or […]