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All eyes turn to the Greens

October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on All eyes turn to the Greens · Ciaran Cuffe, Equality, Equality Authority, Green Party, Irish Politics, Recession

Next Saturday afternoon the Green Party will debate a revised programme for government which is currently under negotiation with Fianna Fáil. Other than animal welfare/hare coursing (Now backpedalled?) and further changes to NAMA there has been mention that a new framework for Equality monitoring and enforcement being on the agenda. Another chance for John Gormley […]

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Waster

August 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics

Paschal Donohoe is a rare breed – a politician who blogs and tweets his way through the summer. Yesterday’s blog entry was rather special though. Our Oireachtas is now led by a man who is literally a waster. I can’t understand why he is still in his job and why he hasn’t commented on a […]

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One year on

June 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships

It’s a year since the Heads of Bill were published on Civil Partnership. I noted the Sunday Business Post’s story this week saying the publication of the bill is imminent. While the mothership is not parked outside Stephens’s Green awaiting smoke from the Ministers office I’ll be keeping an eye out. I was wondering if […]

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So that was interesting

June 8th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Blogging, Declan Ganley, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Uncategorized

Understatement! I’ll let other people talk about the liveblog and the results. The weekend was stunning on a personal note and it was brilliant to work with Cian, Alexia, Mark, and Damien over Saturday and Sunday in bringing it all to life and have inputs from so many others around the country. Thanks again to […]

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Green Party Election Website – sneak preview

May 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

They’re down to 3% in the TNS/MRBI Poll however tomorrow the Green Party are launching their local election manifesto and a new election website. And in the fine tradition of the Irish Blogosphere finding all the Political Party’s new websites first (ok so they did not really hide it too well  – I just went […]

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