Stamp Duty Fianna Fail will be announcing today that they will be the abolition of stamp duty for first time buyers and the removal of any ceiling on the value of the property being bought. According to the Irish Examiner Senior Fianna Fáil strategists hope that this extraordinary change on stamp duty will help shore …
FF to announce Stamp Duty guffology in their manifesto later today. The popping sound you hear is a spin doctor trying to work out how to distract the media from spotting the overlap between stamp duty in the normal sense and stamp duty in the sense in which a certain £30k was stamp duty. I …
Political Animal sighted in Dublin City Centre The Bert is back. He was spotted this afternoon glad-handing his way around the shopping districts near O’Connell Street. The spin was back. His choice of words, as ever, may have let him down slightly…. “I’m delighted with the excellent reaction I’m getting on the streets,†he told …
OK, Day 3 was a bit hairy for Government party spin people… Day 4 should be a piece of cake though, with the worst over right? Lunch time trawl of headlines: Nurses plan escalation of dispute After talks breakdown, the nurses plan further disruption to healthservice. This particular patient’s condition is getting increasingly critical. Get …
Day 4 of the elections and spin is being spun. Trevor Sargent has laid into el Berto for calling the election on a Thursday and disenfranchising young voters. Trevor encourages young voters (students etc.) to register to get on the supplemental register where they are currently living. What about us poor commuters though? I have …
Of course things might get a bit busier for the spin doctors by the end of the week. Some updates over at McGarr Solicitors. While it won’t affect the validity of the on-going election it has the potential to cause some mild discomfort to the relevant Minister.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Fianna Fail or PD central this evening. Things haven’t gone exactly well on the PR front today. Tricky issues in the High Court. A 17 year old girl who is pregnant with a child who has been diagnosed with an ailment that means they …
Thought I’d take a quick time-out to plug the brother’s blog over at http://anothercryingshame.blogspot.com. I particularly liked his post on the Electoral Consitutencies issue, especially his description of Dick Roche as the late lamented Government’s top crisis manager… which I quote here… …that man is the greatest crisis manager the FF/PD’s have. So great are …
So, the Dail has dissolved. The Mahon Tribunal has been frozen. The franchise of students and commuters has been all but evaporated. The Constitution appears to have been transformed into just an insubstantial vapour. My understanding of the physics of matter moving between states (from frozen to disolved for example) suggests to me that it …
RTE radio have just announced that the Mahon Tribunal is (as suspected) postponing the next phase of its hearings until after the election. What a fortuitous coincidence. It does recommence right after the election – when the haggling will be going on about who will be in the Government. Also, the brother has rowed in …