Comment on Meath East by Corpo_Worker
I’ve just had a look at the DDI website(s). So, that’s where the ex-FF vote has gone to.
View ArticleComment on Meath East by PatKav
Marketing anyone? How can any candidate on a low budget compete with spends of €25k upwards? Door-to-door canvassing doesn’t work anymore, people won’t answer the door, yet they need to become familiar...
View ArticleComment on Meath East by rockroots
Not much to be cheerful about, but yes, the broad left agreement is something to cling on to. I think the reality is that the disparate elements of the current left are never likely to coalesce into a...
View ArticleComment on Meath East by doctorfive
Ben Gilroy can be “grouped with the left” says one of Ireland’s leading political commentators Noel Whelan on Tv3
View ArticleComment on Meath East by rockroots
RTE’s Primetime challanged him on the Freeman thing. He denied ever having been a member of THAT organisation. It all sounded strangely familiar…
View ArticleComment on Alive! by check this out
A short moment later, James traded for his share for the business to Tom for just a second-hand Volkswagen Beetle automobile, probably a deal he took to later are sorry for. The one significant aspect...
View ArticleComment on After Meath East by LeftAtTheCross
Take you national sovereignty and your right-wing populism somewhere else Johnny. “the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies”. My...
View ArticleComment on Brian Hayes in the Irish Daily Mail… by What happened to Southern...
[...] as a C a t h o l i c and Protestant in Ireland in the 1940s/50s. It was a hard thing to do. Brian Hayes in the Irish Daily Mail… | The Cedar Lounge Revolution Sign in or Register Now to [...]
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by 6to5against
have a read of this and answer this question for me. If Patrick Honohan now believes it is crucial that Ireland renegotiate the bank debt, does it amount to an admision that he made a mess of this in...
View ArticleComment on After Meath East by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
‘And why would anyone in their right mind brave the elements to support former acolytes of the Dear Leader, late of Pyongyang?’ They talked of little else in Ratoath. This morning’s threats of nuclear...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by Chet Carter
For those who pay a close interest in Michael Gove’s war on the state maintained education system in England. A lot of his rhetoric could be lifted straight from the pages of RCP/Spiked text. It seems...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by CMK
Corrupt, how? ‘Corrupt’ as in colluding with management at the expense of the people he/she supposedly represents? Corrupt as in fiddling money or taking backhanders? Corrupt as in using his/her...
View ArticleComment on After Meath East by irishelectionliterature
Have to agree there LATC on you’re election material. It was a vast improvement on the 2011 stuff. It was clearer, focused on the candidate and the message.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by...
“That legend, Russell Murphy!”
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by doctorfive
Interesting interview with Maurice Coakley http://politicaleconomy.ie/?p=487 The Irish elite as a whole has become characterised by a mentality that combines dependency and fraud, a combination not...
View ArticleComment on Labour at 7% , Ind and Others 25% “The Gilroy Gale?” by Tomboktu
“Adrian Kavanagh’s seats Fine Gael 55, Fianna Fail 43, Sinn Fein 22, Labour 3, Green Party, Independents and Others 35.” Looks like it could be Pat Rabbitte, Ruairí Quinn, and John Lyons to as the...
View ArticleComment on Labour at 7% , Ind and Others 25% “The Gilroy Gale?” by...
I think he has Roisin Shortall, Eric Byrne, and Pat Rabbitte as his trio. The way Rabbitte gets on, I am inclined to think he does not want to fight the next election. Why else would you act like such...
View ArticleComment on Labour at 7% , Ind and Others 25% “The Gilroy Gale?” by...
<i>spokespeople for yet another interest group demanding special treatment.</i> How is this different from any other Irish political party?
View ArticleComment on Labour at 7% , Ind and Others 25% “The Gilroy Gale?” by hardcore...
That has to be the question… do SF count as sane or left/liberal enough to qualify? Assuming that the days of overall majorities are gone, FF/FG have to coalesce with someone (and to do so with each...
View Article