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Entries Tagged as 'Ireland'

Board memberships on the double

December 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Equality

I’ve been busy doing nothing except being a bit ill, not eating a lot and watching Darts and despairing at Israel and the lack of leadership from anywhere else in the world on the situation. Received an interesting comment today on the Equality Authority Issue (which won’t be going away anytime soon!). Look at the […]

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Time for the Equality Authority Board to also resign?

December 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics

The board of the Equality Authority are appointed by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. They are made up of representatives of ICTU, IBEC and the social partners and groups covered by the legislation. From my knowledge of some of the appointees many are committed to the goals of the Authority and the […]

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From the Department of Dodgy Research

November 7th, 2008 · 18 Comments · Uncategorized

Peninsula Ireland are at it again. A few weeks ago there was a pile of rubbish about facebook profiles and people being sacked for being caught on a sickie or something. I’ve no doubt that some muppets do stupid things on facebook but the amount of stuff that Peninsula were indicating as ‘fact’ left me […]

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Zack Exley to speak in Dublin (and it’s a blogger conference!)

September 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blogging

The European Commission Representation and the European Parliament Office in Ireland and Irishelection.com are organising a conference on blogging and social media. The schedule for the day is available here and preregistration is required given the limited number of places available. The line up is impressive. Zack Exley Margot Wallström (By videolink) Damian O Broin […]

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Sarah Palin’s Trip to Ireland – seeking the itinerary

August 31st, 2008 · 53 Comments · US Election 2008

Update: It’s just been confirmed that I was right. She stopped over to refuel and did not visit. Bloggers do the vetting again… So the Republican’s Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin has visited Ireland – this is listed as part of her foreign travel experience. She only got a passport last year and visited US […]

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