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Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn has called on the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD, to exempt Ireland West Airport Knock from the €2 departure tax which was introduced in Budget 2009.

Or ham, sausages, rashers either, or so it seemed for a while.

Former President Mary Robinson has revealed in a documentary about her to be broadcast on Midwest Radio over Christmas that she wasn’t angry over a personal attack made on her by the then Fianna Fáil Minister Padraig Flynn during the 1990 presidential campaign.

Happy New Year Grassroots readers, here’s to a lively year of elections, referendums, recessions, and at least two by-elections for good measure. I hope our politicians enjoyed the Christmas rest in advance of all the above.

Beverley Flynn is never far from the headlines and this week has been another tumultuous one in the Castlebar politician’s career.

The Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring has called for a review of the Artists’ Tax Exemption in light of the burden being carried by all other workers. Deputy Ring went on to say: “We are now in very difficult economic times, we can no longer expect exemption for artists, some of them making a lot of money. They should now pay their fair share to the economy like everybody else. I am calling on the Minister for Finance to immediately review this scheme and make a swift decision on this.”

Whatever can happen next?

The National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) is far from “the only show in town” according to Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator, John Paul Phelan.

Reports in a national newspaper last week detailing possible cuts in child benefit by the Government, have been criticised by Athlone’s Cllr Austin Berry, who now urges Fianna Fail and the Green party not to implement such cuts, which he said would attack the very poor in our society.

Grassroots is watching the political temperature rise in the past few months. And no it is not about the local elections, its about the impotent rage that many people feel at their lives and the lives of those close to them being turned upside down.