Stephen Collins in today’s Irish times (page 13) writes about an anomaly where the number of TDs per constituency is set by the population size via census not by the citizenship of the constituency. 1. this is only an anomaly if you want to disenfranchise non Irish citizens and Irish babies, children and youth up…
Category: election
from 09/05/07 to 05/09/07 boom to bust
this shot of the front of the daily express (ireland:yuk) is from mid election campaign in ireland, feel good factor headline. Any one got last thursdays evening herald snapped?
The bourgeoisisation of RTE
Niall Gormley (Northside People) wrote a good piece on the demise of the Vincent Browne Show on RTE Radio 1. apologies I can’t link to the text its only in print in this weeks Northside People He dismisses the number crunching that I think is JNLR based. I disagree here, flawed or not the numbers…
Now Then: pod digging – Tony Killeen TD on Shannon
Now: [press release from minister of state Tony Killeen TD] Then: his views on the dangers to Shannon recorded some time before the ’07 Election for the RTE Radio show the constituency fast forward to 13:09 MP3 “there are people who will forever feel I suppose that Shannon is under threat and some of them…
Teflon® 10 year guarantee
bizarre day; i walked contra flow to the traffic of TDs heading to the Mass on westland row for the blessing of the 30th Dail 🙂 Major govt. limo pile up outside the church with Special Branch escort to get to holy communion in time, before confession. Bless me father for i have sinned (big…
Green’s on Shannon
page 32 of the Green Party 2007 manifesto * end the use of Shannon Airport by US military forces involved in the war in Iraq; * insist that any aircraft suspected of involvement in illegal movements of prisoners must be searched. the bolded item as bolded in the manifesto seems to be the one that…
Saturday Nights Alright (For Fighting)
taken in the PSLC count centre Dublin North by RedMum
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
going underground
as Friday / Saturday unfolded a song hit my head. well a line from a song “The public gets what the public wants” and then i started twittering it. The following tweets are all taken from the lyrics of the Jam’s Going Underground. Irish Election Jam1: The public gets what the public wants (but are…