Category Archives: 2011

Conceding soft scores – the date of the Presidential election

The announcement that the Irish Presidential election and a pair of referenda are to be held on October 27 isn’t, in the great scheme of things, all that important but in this instance it is a sign that the government … Continue reading

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Government to introduce new Voter Gender Quotas

As a follow up to the various amendments to the  Electoral Act over thre past 5 years the Irish government is proposing to introduce new Voter Gender Quotas to restrict the % of women that can vote at election time. … Continue reading

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Could Scotland, Wales and NI win it for AV?

Most polling appears to show that the AV referendum is headed for a solid defeat but is the polling wrong for a odd reason. England might well vote strongly against but Wales, Scotland and NI are having regional assemblies elections … Continue reading

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The lunacy of an agreed FG/Lab program for government

It has come up repeatedly in press commentary over the last few weeks and was a feature  again last night on Vincent Browne that FG and Labour should published an agreed program for government before the election takes place. We know that … Continue reading

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Major Irish Political party unveils new details about party policy

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Party has in response to much media comment about their lack of detail unveiled new details about it’s new Transport policy. The party has revealed that the policy when released will be Mauve … Continue reading

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Claims about an assault on academic freedom

Image via Wikipedia This is the longer form version of a letter I sent to Madam last week in response to the calls for a public meeting about supposed challenges to academic freedom. It was and is a tad too … Continue reading

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Why is Michael Martin fighting a battle he reckons he can’t win?

Image via Wikipedia People are looking at the talk around the FF confidence motion and wondering why is Michael Martin doing this now, and why is it him that is leading it? The main reason I suspect is that the … Continue reading

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What changed in FF in the last week?

Image via Wikipedia People are asking what changed in FF to prompt the challenge to Brian Cowen, was it Anglo was it his answers in the Dail, was it the new info about who else was there? It wasn’t. It … Continue reading

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Decent, honest and honourable – it isn’t enough.

Image via Wikipedia In recent days I’ve read on p.ie and elsewhere and heard on the airwaves about people who are decent, honest and honourable and for this set of reasons should be public representatives or hold high office. One … Continue reading

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The general election of 2014

Image via Wikipedia It is the height of arrogant presumption of someone to take the result of the next election as read but it is also prudent that someone within an political party need to think beyond the next election … Continue reading

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