There is a poll in todays Irish Daily Star (details from Journal.ie) by OI research. It is a telephone survey of a 1,000 voters on Sunday and Monday. The topline figures are as follows: Fine Gael 39 Labour 18 Fianna Fáil 17 Sinn Fein 10 Green Party 2 Independents/others 14 It is interesting to compare it to yesterdays poll in the independent which it dosent differ too differently from. Seats would be along the lines of Fianna Fail 31...
Image via Wikipedia That was some weekend wasn’t it? I have never in my life experienced a weekend in which so much has happened politically. We entered the weekend with Brian Cowen as leader of Fianna Fáil and we finished it with him as a caretaker Taoiseach. His resignation as leader of Fianna Fáil was not that surprising considering the amount or pressure on him from all parts of the Fianna Fáil part and the failure of stalwarts like...
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 Over the years this blog has payed a great deal of attention to the constituency of Cork South Central. This mainly due to the fact that I am from that particular constituency and for most of my life, I have lived, studied and worked in the Constituency. The Evening Echo had an internal Fine Gael poll at the end of last week. The results made some interesting reading, the figures in brackets are the results from 2007. Simon...
Image via Wikipedia So tonight we get the third poll in a week! This one if from the Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI. The headline figures are as follows: Fianna Fail: 24+3. Fine Gael 24-3. Labour 33.+4. Green 2-2. Sinn Fein 8-2. Others 9 nc. In terms of leaders its: Cowen 19+1. Kenny 25+1. Gilmore 49 +3. This is compared with last Sundays Sunday Business Post/Red C Poll: Fine Gael 31 (-2) Fianna Fail 24,(nc) Labour 23 (-4) SinnFein 10 (+2)...
There was some debate yesterday in the Seanad on the Civil Partnership Bill during the order of business. Fianna Fail Senators Labhrás Ó Murchú, Jim Walsh and John Gerard Hanafin raised objections to parts of the Bill and one called for a referendum. Also Fine Gael’s John Paul Phelan also spoke against part of the Bill. Senator Ó Murchú claimed that the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 would breach some people’s human rights, he even compared it to the Penal...
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...
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