Tag Archives: Leinster House

Who ran up a €1,600 bill ringing a single mobile number in Pakistan from the Oireachtas?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

This story is by Ken Foxe and based on a recent story in the Mail on Sunday: Documents obtained under FOI are below. A politican is suspected to have run up a bill of more than €1,600 calling a single mobile phone … Continue reading →

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Savage Budget 2012 -13

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

By  Charlie Weston and Fionnan Sheahan THE most savage Budget of the economic downturn has hit ordinary families for €1,000 a year. Property tax, cuts to child benefit and changes to social insurance have put extraordinary new pressure on squeezed family … Continue reading →

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SpunOut invited to the Aras for the President’s ‘Young and Irish’ garden party

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Sent in to us by our friends over at SpunOut Recently it’s been all go at SpunOut HQ. We’ve been hanging out with the President in the Aras, meeting with politicians in Leinster House and now we’re hiring a new person … Continue reading →

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Parents stage Dáil protest over care payment cuts

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

By Evelyn Ring The group wants to reverse the stopping of domiciliary care payments and is  seeking a meeting with Social Protection Minister Joan Burton to discuss the  issue. The group claimed the entire application and review system for  the … Continue reading →

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Facebook question !

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

Thomas Clarke No chance of the Wicklow turncoats of keeping their promises,the lot are supporting the government mantra that the St. Colmcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown is unsafe and are supporting the cutting of its services when they should be demanding more services for … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael showing the way.

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Source :http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0325/1224293046392.html Remember this article in the Times ? By.GENEVIEVE CARBERY Friday, March 25, 2011 A FINE Gael TD who has returned half his salary to the exchequer has urged other politicians to consider a similar action. First-time TD for … Continue reading →

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Another dark day for democracy in Ireland

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

RONAN McGREEVY and CONOR LALLY ABOUT 1,500 people demonstrated outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday evening in a noisy protest against the Budget. The protesters included members of the Shell to Sea campaign, Sinn Féin, the Republican group Éirígí … Continue reading →

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Pity the nation

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

 Article sent into us this afternoon > Pity the nation whose politicians make Gerry Adams look like an attractive option > > The moral nadir of any state must surely have come when Mr Gerry Adams MP announces that he is its … Continue reading →

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TD’s unite to give themselves a pay rise

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

in case you missed this By John Drennan Sunday November 07 2010 As the country faces economic meltdown, TDs and senators are planning to improve their already plush terms and conditions. An official estimate of the money required to run … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Bertie / The Voice of Reason

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

taken from the Galway Advertiser, September 09, 2010. The Voice of Reason Pearce Flannery Mr Bertie Ahern TD. Dáil Eireann, Leinster House, Dublin 2. A Chara, I witness the daily spectacle of this country having its soul destroyed with a … Continue reading →

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