yesterday I watched Mary Harney texting on Nokia 3310(?) she was taking a question at the time across the floor , or a rebuttal to a question answer exchange. First off its bad manners, secondly texting celebs to ask them to stand as parachute candidates for the PDs while sitting in the Irish Parliament should…
Category: politics
will you?
You drink your coffee and I sip my tea And we’re sitting here playing so cool, thinking “What will be, will be” But it’s getting kind of late now Oh I wonder if you’ll stay now, stay now, stay now, stay now Or will you just politely say goodnight? photo from www.fureys.ie
Fianna Fail Drunk Driver TDs step aside
The former government minister, Jim McDaid, has announced that he is not to run in the next general election, he was convicted in October of dangerous driving and drunken driving at Naas District Court in Co Kildare and given a two year driving ban. Driving up the wrong side of a dual carrageway McDaid was…
Leviathan Podcast – February 06
Leviathan Podcast from feb ’06 kindly hosted by http://richarddelevan.blogspot.com/ has now relocated at http://leviathan.libsyn.org/
BHG on Near FM Radio 11.30am today
I will be speaking on the Enviro programme on Near FM 101.6 fm at 11:32am. In studio is me and local Ind. Tom Brennan and on the phone is Bernard Durkan FG for a discussion on the FG energy doc, ShutSellafield.com and the North Fringe, hosted by John Haughton. This is a repeat of last…
twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe
CWI: This April 25/26 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the world’s worst nuclear accident. The explosion at the power plant, situated about 100 miles north of Kiev in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, sent a cloud of radioactive gas around the world. The cloud contained twenty times the amount…
A new Axis of Power BBC Radio 4 – Now
A series of left-leaning leaders have consolidated their power across Latin America. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez sees this as an historic opportunity to create a new power bloc in Latin America to rebuff US influence. Emilio San Pedro presents A new Axis of Power, to be broadcast on Tuesday 18 April at 2000 GMT on…
people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs
Oil hits a record price of $70.86 a barrel NY Times Editorial:- … Ever since Royal Dutch Shell discovered oil in the Niger Delta back in 1956, revenue from oil wells has gone to line the pockets of Nigeria’s elite: military dictators and corrupt federal and local government officials. Very little has gone to help…
odd goings on in the county council
back in Oct 2004 a Green Party councillor in Wicklow had her tape recorder confiscated for recording proceedings in the chamber of the council. from the Examiner October 12, 2004: Yesterday’s meeting was temporarily suspended when a member of the public gallery alerted officials that one councillor was recording the proceedings. Green Party councillor Deirdre…