It looks like the NO vote will win today and the EU reform treaty will not be ratified by Ireland.
Scare tactics
My opinion on this is that this has been a success for the politics of the scare tactic and a tremendous success for George Bush’s mouthpiece in Ireland.  The EU project has hit a major […]

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First of all, I know nothing about the Lisbon treaty. I would normally be interested in this kind of thing, but my mind has been elsewhere of late. However, I was listening to Pat Kenny this morning and he had some people on it that were talking about it.
Essentially, the argument against the […]

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Today the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, the leader of the opposition Enda Kenny and the Sinn Fein leader in Leinster House, Caoimhghin O’Caolain all said they supported the idea of introducing a National Honours System, while Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said he opposed the idea.
Interesting notion, the idea of an honours system. It is a […]

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I see that Joan Burton is the latest person to announce her intention to stand for election for the leadership of the Labour party.
Ooops, I mean the Deputy leadership.
Liz McManus announced today she is not running for leader. Brendan Howlin is not going to run. Ruairi Quinn won’t run.
Why does nobody want the […]

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Pat Rabbitte has resigned as leader of the Labour Party and is possibly going to be succeeded by Eamon Gilmore. Ronan Mullen is a sitting senator in Leinster House.
What do they all have in common?
They have all been past presidents of the UCG Student’s Union.
Join to the list Daithi MacCarthaigh, who has run for […]

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Pat Rabbitte resigning has all happened in my absence. I am out of the country for a week. I am not too surprised by this and think that it will benefit the labour party considerably.
The two principal benefits are the removal of the hostility towards Fianna Fail, who, like it or not, will be in […]

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Ryanair exists because we tolerate/promote competition in the marketplace. We don’t insist on a monopoly. Ryanair flies in and out of Shannon because of this paradigm. If we had government controls preventing airlines operating the same way as, say banks, then airlines like Ryanair would not be working in Ireland. Ryanair don’t do […]

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