Politics & Culture

Lunchtime, Day 4 – Spin Review

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 …

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Spin that..

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.

A plug for the bruvver

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 …

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You cannot change the laws of physics.

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 …

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Dis Dissolution is catching…

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 …

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Little victories..(?)

The good news The Minister for the Environment today announced the establishment of a Commission to review the electoral constituencies. This is exactly what he said couldn’t be done a few weeks ago, before the constitutional challenge to the current state of the constituencies was launched as the ‘final census figures weren’t in’. The figures …

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Better late then never..

RTE today have a story about the changing demographics revealed by the Census. This story mentions specifically the possible need for an additional TD in Dublin West as a result of the 8000 population growth in the area that the Census shows. RTE have, unfortunately, failed to point out the other constituencies that are under …

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