Image via Wikipedia Today the European Court of Human Rights (not an EU body!) handed down its judgement on the case of ABC v Ireland on the issue of provision of Abortion in Ireland. As kind of expected the court declared A and B inadmissible as the existing prohibition on abortion in Ireland struck a fair balance between the right of the first and second applicants to respect of their private lives and the rights invoked on behalf of...
Kathy Sinnott (Ind/Dem) is no longer an MEP! Results from the Count Centre in Cork show that Senator Alan Kelly of Labour has beaten Sinnott on the final count for the final seat in Ireland South. It was a mixed day in Cork with at one point looking like Toireasa Ferris of Sinn Fein was in a shout of the last the seat, but she failed to attracted enough transfers and Sinnott leap frogged past her. It was then...
I blogged yesterday about Predict 09‘s Irish Predictions, but tonight while looking through the country analysis I noticed something. Libertas will not win any seats in the European Parliament. In fact there is only vote share predicted for Ireland and Poland. In Ireland it is predicted at 7% and in Poland its predicted for 0% (+ the margin of error which is 4%). It is not predicted to win seats in Ireland or Poland. Let alone anywhere else! Will...
The latest predictions from Predict 09 are out and they make for interesting reading for the Irish predictions. According to it Fine Gael will remain the largest party with five MEP’s and 30% of the vote. They say the Fianna Fail will loose two MEPs. And I have to agree with them. They predict that Fianna Fail will get 28% of the vote. Labour look to be the big gainers and will gain a seat at the expense of...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife So I finally asked my first question on CandidateWatch. I asked the following to Ireland South’s Independent MEP Kathy Sinnot: Do you think that Ireland should withdraw from the European Union? The reason I ask this is that you are sitting in a European Parliament group with UKIP who believe that the United Kingdom should leave the Union. Ill post the response when I get it. Incidently the first question asked to her...
Its kind of hard to ignore Kathy Sinnott. And its kind of hard to hate her when she says what you are thinking. Here is a video of her defending Net Neutrality. Still not voting for her though. In other news, there was a leafleter for Kathy Sinnott in Cork City on Sunday when I was wandering around with a friend. He went to hand us a leaflet, I said “No thanks” I never take leaflets, but my frien...
Here is a round up of the Candidates for the 4 European consitituencies in Ireland with a few predictions. Ireland – Dublin Dublin is the big battlegorund this year with the number of seats being reduced from 4 seats to 3. The Greens, with Senator Deirdre De Burca, are also hoping to gain a seat in Dublin. It will be a tough campaign. Eibhlin Byrne (Fianna Fail) Website Deirdre de Burca (Greens) Website Proinsias de Rossa MEP (Labour) Website...
This year I was contemplating given Kathy Sinnott a preference in the European Elections this year (considering Fianna Fail are getting none) but I remembered why not when at work on Saturday I was reading an old copy of the Cork Independent (free sheet) and it had profiles on lots of the candidates in the Locals and Europeans. They asked them to list their priorites, on of Kathy’s was and I quote Preventing the HSE from promoting Euthanasia in...
As most of you know, Cork is part of the Ireland South constituency for the European Elections. This compromises of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. In the last elections in 2004 Ireland South returned 3 MEPs. In 2009 it will also return 3 MEPs. In 2004 the following were elected: Brian Crowley (Fianna Fail/UEN) Simon Coveney (Fine Gael/EPP-ED) Kathy Sinnot (Independent/IndDem) This year sees a few changes as Colm Burke replaced Simon Coveney as MEP following Simon’s re-election...
Remember the post earlier today about copyright extension? Will I got my first response. Its from Kathy Sinnott. She did her research she told me and will not be voting for the Directive. She also thanked me for my advice on the consumer side! So thanks Digital Rights Ireland for giving me the details! Yes, I do consider the fact that I was emailed back five hours later to be fast, considering I have yet to hear from the...
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