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Labour’s red rose set to bloom
Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.
Labour’s red rose set to bloom
Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.
Labour’s red rose set to bloom
Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.
Turf cutting changes “only first small step” – Naughten
Local TD Denis Naughten has welcomed what he is calling the “climb-down” by the Minister for the Environment on the proposed ban on turf cutting on bogs until the end of the year.
Kilkenny dealt a political blow by Master Cowen
What a week it’s been for Kilkenny. We have lost our junior minister in one fell swoop and I think the whole county is aghast. Nobody expected it.
Reshuffle reverberations
As you sow, so shall you reap. My FF sources tell me of a significant souring mood towards Cowen’s leadership. While many loyal FF insiders could tolerate economic ruin and desperate opinion polls, the treatment of some key figures in the parliamentary party has ensured they will be bitter opponents of Cowen in future.
Facing a Fianna Fáil drubbing
There can be few jobs more unpalatable right now than being a Fianna Fáil election candidate - or even a Fianna Fáil canvasser - in the run up to June 5. The party is facing a drubbing at the polls. And whatever doorstep hostility has been there over the past two weeks, it will be nothing as compared to the anger when next month's pay cheque leaves Sean Citizen with a huge hole in what is available to him to pay his bills.
Fine Gael ‘ready and able’
During the launch in the Castlecourt Hotel last Friday of the three Westport area Fine Gael candidates running for the county election, Michael Ring TD told those present that it would not be long before Mayo has a taoiseach and perhaps a job for himself along the way.
Reshuffle reverberations
As you sow, so shall you reap. My FF sources tell me of a significant souring mood towards Cowen’s leadership. While many loyal FF insiders could tolerate economic ruin and desperate opinion polls, the treatment of some key figures in the parliamentary party has ensured they will be bitter opponents of Cowen in future.
An inside look at local politics – from the pens of the politicians themselves
This week Insider proposes to reflect on the plethora of so-called Independents who are campaigning for your vote on June 5. Many of these ‘new Independents’ are former members of the Progressive Democrats whose two remaining TDs - Dep Noel Grealish and Health Minister Mary Harney - continue to support one of the most incompetent governments in the history of the State.