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Why did Cameron agree to the debates?

Image by conservativeparty via Flickr Many people will think at this point that David Cameron was quite mad to agree to the debates especially with the participation of the LibDems Nick Clegg but I suspect he knew that (a) the … Continue reading

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A 3-way Leader’s debate in Ireland

Image by Getty Images via Daylife With the first of the series of the Uk’s three PM debates on UTV tonight it appears not to have occurred to anyone here that if the polls in Ireland were to remain remotely … Continue reading

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Are FF in fact the Green Party’s mudguards?

Image by infomatique via Flickr With the various commentary about the future of the Greens and how they might deal with it. Once the government goes to the country whenever that it, I was wondering are FF’s 2nd candidate TDs … Continue reading

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An Irish liberal party – what about a progressive caucus instead

Image via Wikipedia In performing a little exercise set for me by Jason O Mahony I was given to thinking about the calls that come every once in a while from some quarters that we should have new Liberal party … Continue reading

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Killian Forde and the Moguls of Irish politics

The departure/defection/eloping of Cllr Killian Forde from Sinn Fein to the Labour party appears to be causing considerably more discussion that the earlier leavings of Christy Burke or Louise Minihan. While this is perhaps because he has left and joined … Continue reading

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Blasphemy, blas for you. A taste of Dermot Ahern for everyone.

Over on Irishelection, Veronica has a piece covering the media push for Blasphemy.ie. What will make this focus on blasphemy and mass cards by the minister all the more ridiculous will be the possibility that the courts will end up … Continue reading

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Is the Irish government trying to collapse itself?

There is a widespread presumption aboard in the media that the Green’s get together over the weekend on the review of the program for government is merely an exercise in being seen by the membership to at least be going … Continue reading

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Local Elections Predictions – 2009

I think that the share of the national vote will be as follows FF will get 25% FF will get 33%, Greens 3% Labour15% SF 8% Independents 15 I think that FF will stay just over the 250 seat mark. … Continue reading

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