I find myself in the strange position of not wanting to support any of the political parties because I believe that the party system kills democracy, and even though some of the parties have talented members, they are well outnumbered and well outspoken within their own parties which means that they will struggle to achieve …
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General Election 2011
0 CommentsFine Gael TD Leo Varadkar decided to go for the comedy approach when dealing with NAMA on his website this week. He offered to sell NAMA his apartment for its Long Term Equivalent Value of €420K, despite it only being worth around €250K at the moment. Given that NAMA buys debts off banks and not …
Leo Varadkar vs NAMA
0 CommentsThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Christine Lagarde thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis First 100 Days I don’t know if she’s doing a good job at home but by sacking the bank executives in the bank that the French government bailed out, I think I can safely …
Christine Lagarde On The Daily Show
0 Comments[YouTube thanks to Damien Mulley] I did a quick Twitter post last night when I noticed a story on RTÉ News online about two anonymous paintings of a naked Brian Cowen that had appeared in two Dublin galleries yesterday. Underneath a picture of one of the paintings a sub editor had made a pun about …
Brian Cowen Nude Paintings
4 CommentsIt’s a long held belief of mine that the party poliical system as it exists now doesn’t serve the people. It serves the parties themselves first, the politicians second, their cronies third, and the rest of us if we’re lucky. I understand how hard it would be to get a majority on difficult decisions if …
Time To End Party Politics
2 CommentsNot that she wasn’t before, but Panti got politcal on her blog over the weekend, and as a result is stirring up a bit of a debate over the upcoming civil partnership legislation, or more specifically over the lack of marriage rights for LGBT couples. Hopefully there will be some additional coverage of the issues …
Panti Gets Politcal
0 CommentsHopefully most of you in Ireland will be aware of this, but it’s worth talking about again and again and again. The government here are again trying to go backwards instead of forwards with the latest changes to the licencing laws with regard to the sale of alcohol. They are trying to move all closing …