I have a friend who is big into singing and that and I never heard him sing. Last night he sent me a link to one of his songs he just put on youtube and its one of my favourite songs by Phil Coulter. The song is Carrickfergus and all I can say is Ethan you do it justice! He has a career ahead of him! (Yes I did promise to blog about it, but it deserves to be!)
Image via Wikipedia Cedar Lounge Revolution have the Hot Press interview with Patricia McKenna, and it makes really interesting reading. A few of her answers sum up why I won’t vote Green ever again. I don’t want to put words into your mouth, but you are effectively saying that the Greens in the Dail are nothing but hypocrites? Definitely. They are political opportunists. It’s political opportunism where you jump on the bandwagon of a campaign and support it and...
Image via Wikipedia The above is according to Elmar Brok MEP (CDU/EPP). This because today the Czech Senate today approved the Treaty of Lisbon, leaving Ireland as the only EU member state not to have passed it. From the press release: “Now the Lisbon treaty lies in the hands of Ireland , because there is no alternative to the Lisbon treaty. The people in Ireland have made it clear that they want the European Union to be more democratic,...
Well after an email sent to all the participants in the Th!nk About It Project about some votin irregularities that have appeared on the site, and I have noticed a few myself, the following was sent today. I’m sorry to inform you that discrepancies in the voting via the use of proxies and abuse of computer-classrooms have increased so much that the results can not be trusted anymore. For this reason, the EJC editorial team will choose the April...
Image via Wikipedia While reading blogs and surfing links I came across EPvote.eu. I may have linked in before. I think its a bit cumbersome but it will do until VoteWatch.eu launches next week. I found out about that from Jan’s EUblog. While flitting around it, I came across some stats. And one very interesting one. The Dutch MEP Paul van Buitenen has a voting record that consists of abstaining on 98% of votes! Yes you read that right!...
So George Lee the now former Economics Editor of RTÉ will be standing for Fine Gael in the Dublin South By Election. Personally I am delighted that George is running for us in Dublin. Hes name was mentioned to me on a number of occasions but I was told he turned us down. How wrong those people were! George Lee is a man with his finger on the pulse of the Irish Economy. He warned us for years, and...
Image by Muffet via Flickr Thanks to Generation Yes on twitter for the reminder that there is only 9 working days remaining to get registered to Vote for the June 5th elections, Local, European and Byelection. Check if you are registered on ChecktheRegister.ie. Remeber EU Citizens are entitled to vote in the Local and European Elections. Non-EU residents may be eligible to vote in Local Elections depending in their situation. If you are not registered to vote and have...
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