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The actual new FG front bench

Image via Wikipedia As got from p.ie, where there is mucho interesting discussion about it. Looks to me like Finance and the long term economy has been split which I think is a very good thing indeed. FINE GAEL FRONT … Continue reading

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I’ll be on Newstalk’s Saturday Edition in the morning

Image via Wikipedia I will be taking part in a discussion re: the week’s events in Fine Gael tomorrow morning between 8.30am and 9.30am. I’m not a main player as it were, merely a phone contributor.  Senator Alex White, Senator … Continue reading

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Where does Fine Gael go now?

Image via Wikipedia I think this rural vs urban stuff is nonsense, Mark Coughlan of another parish noted that it seemed to be in areas where the PDs had once had a foothold or seat that the FGers were opposed … Continue reading

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What the contest in Fine Gael is about

Image via Wikipedia The contest in FG is not urban or rural as Elaine Byrne suggested but between the politics of “what” and “how” as compared with the politics of “who, and where and when”. There is a not inconsiderable number … Continue reading

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What chances for a smooth change at the top of FG?

I suspect that it is obvious at this point that the possibility of a change at the top of FG has increased in the last 48 hours and the likelihood of this change over being a smooth and relatively bloodless … Continue reading

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The end of Enda

Image via Wikipedia He has been an excellent leader of the party and has the qualities to make a great Taoiseach but the electorate have fixed in their minds a view of him that is inaccurate, not based on his performance and … Continue reading

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George Lee – our part in his downfall, his part in ours

Image by WOBBLYMOL (it’ll soon be spring) via Flickr I am massively disappointed by this, and there is plenty of blame to go around here and I think people should avoid the chance to gloat and more than Fine Gael … Continue reading

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An open letter on Seanad Reform

The proposal that Fine Gael policy should be to abolish the Seanad after the next election as announced by the party leader Enda Kenny leaves me in two minds. As a means to put down a marker to the government … Continue reading

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