Interesting developments (well developments at least) over in the Hight Court… The Constitutional challenge to the Electoral boundaries will be heard next week. This isn’t really news to those of us who have been keeping an eye on mcgarrsolicitors over the past few weeks. What does it mean? Well it means that any chance of …
I’m frankly baffled. We are in the run up to a General Election here in Ireland. All the media pundits are quoting 24th May as the date of the (as yet unannounced) election. This would require our parliament to be dissolved at the latest next week. Ireland runs a Proportional Representation/Single Transferable Vote system. It …
What the…? – Irish Political coverage ignores the Elephant in the room Read More »
Last night I was doing some housekeeping on the site and I noticed that the year-ometer on the DoBlog is about to turn over. The first post on www.obriend.com (as it was then) was on 18th April 2006. It was about the Electoral Register. With an Election looming in the next few weeks it is …