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Campaign For Children – Cork Meeting Wednesday 25th
The Campaign for Children will be holding a public meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 25th, at 6pm in the Geogrpahy Lecture Hall in UCC. It is part of a series of public meetings to inform people about the work of the campaign. The Campaign is chaired by Fo...
Romney “wins” Iowa
A lot has been posted about Mitt Romney’s win of the Straw Poll at the Iowa Caucus on Tuesday night. While he beat Rick Santorum by 8 votes, how many of his supporters stuck around to be voted as Delegates to the County Caucus, which in turn se...
Reaction to Budget 2012: Part 2
Image via Wikipedia For Part 1 see here Minister for Finance Michael Noonan TD today announced the rest of Budget 2012. The main points are as follows: VAT: Raised by 2% to 23% 1.4c increase on Petrol 1.6c increase on Diesel €17.32 increase on Fuel...
Reaction to Budget 2012: Part 1
Today we got a look at the first part of Budget 2012 . Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin today announced a series of measures that add up to the €2.2bn in cuts. The main points that I took from today’s announcements: G...
Wave Change Cork
Over the 12th and 13th of November I spent time in the Cork School Music on the Wave Change programme from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland which I blogged about here. Over the two days there were speakers, such as Bill Liao and Myles McCorry of Bik...
First Junior Minister Resigns
Willie Penrose TD and Minister of State at Department of Environment, Community & Local Government with responsibility for Housing & Planning has resigned from the Cabinet and from the Labour Party. Penrose was a Super Junior Minister meanin...
Time for More Europe?
A group of nine Spanish Bloggers have come together and written a Manifesto on things to improve Europe. There isn’t any political slant to this apart from trying to improve democracy within the European Union and improve the EU itself.
End of an Era
Tonight at midnight Mary McAleese finishes her Presidency after 14 years as President of the Republic of Ireland. While I do not remember much of her election or the campaign preceding it, I do have a memory of much of her years as President a...
The Next Referenda
On Morning Ireland this morning Fianna Fail TD Dara Callaery suggested that the Government had a series of referendums planned for next year. The question is what will these be on? Two we know of. They are the long awaited Children’s Rig...
EU split on Palestine
Today’s vote at UNESCO’s General Conference on full membership for Palestine gives an idea of how a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) vote could go if the membership bid gets that far. More worrying for me is the complete spl...
The Count 2011!
Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. Th...
Asking the Candidates: If elected will you continue to use Facebook/Twitter
After thinking about all the tweets and facebooking from the Irish Presidential Candidates, I decided to ask them if they would contine use Twitter/Facebook if they were elected President of the Republic of Ireland. I asked the question on Twitter i...
Presidential Election Broadcasts – Mary Davis & Sean Gallagher
A feature of any election campaign, is the election broadcasts. This year is no different. So far only broadcasts from Mary Davis and Sean Gallagher have been aired. I will endeavour to post the others as they are aired. Mary Davis She also has one a...
The Forgotten Referendums?
With all the focus on the Presidential Election on October 27th, the two Referenda on the Constitution seem to have slipped under the radar. At home we received the the Referendum Commission’s booklet to the referenda and much like their websit...
Pollwatch: Sunday Business Post/Red C October 16th
Tomorrow the Sunday Business Post have a Red C poll for the Presidential Election. The comparison is with the Red C poll for Paddy Power on October 6th. The field work for this poll was done between Monday and Wednesday so does not include any chan...
Wave Change
Are you aged between 18-25? Do want to see Social Change in Ireland? Do you want to change something in Irish Society? Check out Wave Change. Wave Change is a new programme being launched by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland for 18-25 year-olds who bel...
Pollwatch: Catch up, October 6th Polls
Its been a busy week here and I have managed to miss to polls that were published last Thursday, the 6th of October. The first poll was in the Irish Times and was carried out by Ipsos MRBI. The figures were as follows: Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 23% Ga...
Diary of A Canvasser: #Aras11 Edition
As with every election campaign, I am out on the streets and talking up my preferred candidate or cause. This time out, just like with Lisbon 2, I have left Fine Gael behind to support a different group. If you weren’t aware, I am supporting...
The Presidential Debates
As the Campaign gets under way the attention turns from the nomination process to the debates. RTÉ and TV3 have organisied debates on Radio and TV. No sign yet of an Irish Debate on TG4, or news if Newstalk or any other station have organised one ye...
David Norris is now an Official Candidate
Senator David Norris this evening secured his fourth and final nomination to contest the Irish Presidential Election. Dublin City Council joined Fingal County Council, Laois County Council and Waterford City Council and gave a nomination to the Senat...
