Image via Wikipedia One paragraph from yesterdays Observer’s Editorial should be memorised and remembered for a long time. Much of that story is familiar from other countries caught out by the credit crunch. But Ireland’s unique misfortune is to have, in Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fáil government, leaders who shipwrecked the economy and then capsized the lifeboats. The initial crisis response in 2008 was designed in such a way as effectively to absorb the doomed banking sector into the state,...
Image via Wikipedia Its finally happened. The Green Party have called time on the Government, but won’t resign until after the Finance act has been passed. Jackie Healy-Rae also has announced he will not be supporting the Government. Cork North Central TD, Noel O’Flynn, is tonight meeting with supporters to decide his future. This has been a long time coming and with the election due in January, expect canvassing to start in earnest in the next week or two....
A new crime is set to be established in Ireland if the Oireachtas pass a bill that Senator and Chairman of the Green Party, Dan Boyle, is planning to introduce. This bill would establish the crime of “financial treason”. He said in a press release (taken from Corkpolitics.ie) “Among the many reasons why there has been no action taken against known individuals working in Irish financial institutions whose greed and recklessness have brought us to where we are is...
Image via Wikipedia Senator Dan Boyle, Chairman of the Green Party, has tweeted the following: There is a questioning of trust and an adding to uncertainty that is making the basis for being in government much more difficult. Are we about to see a General Election? Will the Greens pull out? Reuters has picked up on this story also. I wonder will the EU-IMF be putting pressure on the Greens too stay in government? Election.ie is rightly asking where...
Twice in the last week I have received e-mails from Fathers.ie in relation to their latest campaign. Now this is not normally an issue for me, but it is because they are to my private email account. That is something I do not want. Most press releases I receive are to the email account associated with this blog, (that is stephen(at)stephenspillane(dot)com) and I don’t mind that. That is what it is for. To receive stories, requests, ideas and press...
Image via Wikipedia Firstly I apologise for the lack of posting recently, I have been under pressure with College and work and other commitments. Anyway, today I was asked in an email about my stance on the attempt by Green Party Leader and Minister for the Environment to ban hunting in Ireland. Specifically the Meath Stag Hunt. Personally I am against Stag hunting. These are wonderful creatures. They are so beautiful and serene, we should be preserving them for...
Image via Wikipedia The Statement: Statement by Trevor Sargent TD A Ceann Chomhairle, I thank you for the opportunity to explain to the House the circumstances of the clinic enquiry I received in June 2008 relating to an assault in September 2007 which were partially reported in the media this afternoon. A victim of an assault came to me to voice his frustration at the slow progress being made with a case where he alleged he had been head-butted...
Image via Wikipedia So now Trevor Sargent is accused of acting improperly in a criminal case. The Minister of State is the latest in a long line of accusations to have hit the Government. The latest of course being the resignation of Willie O’Dea. While many would have assumed the Green Party were above all this type of stuff but it turns out, being in Government with Fianna Fail may have taught them some bad habits. If Sargent was...
Image via Wikipedia So what do three of the above have in common at the moment? To me they represent why Fianna Fail is no longer fit to govern. O’Dea lied under oath, and was forced to resign. Coughlan thinks young people emigrate for fun and theres the whole Hanger 6 debacle Ahern was cheerleader in chief for O’Dea and he is the Justice Minister! This government is beyond itself. It is out of ideas. It has no idea...
Image via Wikipedia I didn’t see this coming, but Green Senator Deirdre De Burca has resigned from the Green Party and the Seanad! This is the second high profile resignation this week. De Burca has left due to not being able to support the Government, in a statement she said: “I have written to my party leader, John Gormley, explaining to him the reasons for my resignation. I believe that we have lost our way as a party and have gradually...
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