Maman Poulet | Clucking away crookedly through media, politics and life

Entries Tagged as 'John Gormley'

The Green Party express delivery service

June 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Ciaran Cuffe, Green Party, Irish Politics, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships

‘Green Party Leader John Gormley, Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) Chairperson Kieran Rose, Deputy Chair of the Green Party’s National Council Roderic O’Gorman, and Green Party Justice and equality spokesperson Ciarán Cuffe discuss the Government’s new Civil Partnership Bill.’

Share

[Read more »]

Tags:·····

Green Party say they saved the EA, Justice Minister ignores it…

April 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Equality, Equality Authority

Amidst the hype on the junior minister resignations/sackings you may have missed a number of other news stories and spats at the Dáil returned from it’s Easter break. Questions to Justice, Equality and Law Reform Minister Dermot Ahern (he who hogged Questions and Answers on Monday night last..) yesterday in the Dáil continued to focus […]

Share

[Read more »]

Tags:····

Anything you can tweet…

April 8th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

I’m very #bludget hung over today and even worse I’ve been dealing with some of the announcements in the day job capacity and it’s not been pretty. As a result I was not paying close attention to twitter and the speeches in the Dáil on the resolutions or as they are known Financial Motions of […]

Share

[Read more »]

Tags:·····

Music for a Party Leader II

March 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics

So tonight it’s the turn of John Gormley to take 30 minutes of Saturday Evening television coverage. Last week I asked for suggestions for musical accompaniments for Brian Cowen. Suggestions for John? (@Allancavanagh apologises for the first one 🙂 )

Share

[Read more »]

Tags:·

Green Party rescue Equality Authority?

March 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Equality, Equality Authority, Irish Politics, Social Policy

Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the Green Party Convention in Wexford this weekend. There is however excellent coverage online from bloggers and the Green Party themselves with livestreams, liveblogging, twittering TD’s and a convention blog page. Tonight party leader and Minister for Environment, John Gormley, welcomed delegates to the conference. He brought good […]

Share

[Read more »]

Tags:·····