I’ve never read so many UK blogs as I’ve read this weekend. I’ve always thought of UK politics blogs as being very aligned one way or the other and some of them of being quite a bitchfest. I’ve a few in my google reader and sometimes there will be a post which is more thought […]
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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 […]
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Flicking through some press releases in my reader tonight I noted one from Fine Gael regarding their decision not to participate in the Late Late Show debate on the Seanad earlier this evening. I was wondering about all that testosterone on the top panel. Reading the statement I was none the wiser that RTE had […]
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..is none other than Labour’s blogging Senator Dominic Hannigan. During the order of business in the Seanad this week Fergal Quinn spoke about devices to keep young people away from shops and how they might play someone like Barry Manilow to deter young people from hanging outside. Up steps Dominic to contribute… I wish to […]
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You may remember that Pat Rabbitte and Dermot Ahern went head to head before Christmas on the cutting of the budget of the Equality Authority. Last night Labour’s Spokesperson on Justice released a statement in reaction to the resignation of 5 members of the authority. Today’s resignation of five more directors of the Equality Authority […]
Tags:Dermot Ahern·Equality Authority·Labour·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform