Image via Wikipedia A public meeting will be held on Monday 8th of March at 8:00pm in Silversprings Morans Hotel Cork on the the new Fine Gael Health Policy “FairCare”. Speakers on the night will include Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD, Fine Gael Health Spokesperson Dr. James O’Reilly TD and Fine Gael Seanad Health Spokesperson Senator Francis Fitzgerald. Local elected representatives will also be in attendance. This is a good chance to find out more about the Fine...
Image via Wikipedia Enda Kenny has been the leader of Fine Gael since 2002. In that time he has revitalised the party but he has failed to capitalise on the failures of Fianna Fail. Today’s resignation of George Lee is the final nail in the coffin for my support for Enda Kenny. There needs to be a change of thinking at the top of the party, a change in how policy and where policy comes from. There needs to...
Image via Wikipedia The Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010 takes place in Barcelona from the 4th of March to the 7th of March. The Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialogue in the Union for the Mediterranean region and to enrich the activities of the forty-three National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation The Forum is being organised by the Anna Lindh Foundation in partnership with the European Institute...
As you all know, I am blogging in the thinkaboutit.eu competition on Climate Change, well during the course of wandering through facebook, I came across a link to a BBC article (via Sam Bowman, thank you!) about how Global Temperatures are cooling. Now this kind of goes against alot of what I was told in Copenhagen and from what a lot of books tell us about Climate Change and Global Warming. So I am utterly confused. Do we have...
Yes, that’s right, that evil company Google are taking a stance on Proposition 8 in California. For those of you who don’t know Proposition 8 is the following: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California”. Basically the proposition is to make In re Marriage Cases (2008) (PDF), which made Gay Marriages legal in California, illegal again. Obviously if I had a vote in California I would...
FG electronic tagging proposals would have put Marlo’s 23 associates under 24 hour monitoringJustice Minister Michael McDowell has made a complete U-turn on Garda resourcing today by suddenly publishing an uncosted package of crime proposals (Tuesday), only days after he insisted that resourcing was not an issue, according to Fine Gael Justice Spokesman Jim O’Keeffe TD. ‘The problem of Garda resources is not a new one, but the Tánaiste is only now waking up to the scale of the...
Just received this in an email from the Fine Gael Press Office. Main Points *Effective Community Policing*Root and Branch Reform of the EU*An Independent Garda Authroity*Increasing Frontline Gardai*Imporved Training*Improved Diversity*New Organisational Structure From just leafing through the document, in the part about encouraging diversity one of the communities to be targeted is the Gay Community. I dont have time to give a full analysis so the link to the full policy is below. Policing Our Communities – An Agreed...
I posted this up on Forum UCC nand i thought their might be other YFG’ers who wanted to get on the act Hey all, I am currently writing a discussion document for YFG’s Policy for Cork City and Council. I would appreciate any input whatsoever. I am currently looking at the Current area’s Transport Health Education Environment Housing Enterprise and Employment Natural Heritage and Local Development Planning Community Development Recreation Justice and Crime if you have suggestions for further...
From the Fine Gael website Fine Gael is currently conducting an examination of the ways in which the Defence Forces might make an enhanced contribution to our society, in addition to the important roles which they currently hold. The first matter being considered is whether the skills of the Defence Forces could be used to coordinate volunteers from civic society to carry out desirable projects in disadvantaged areas. The Defence Forces have a wealth of project management and logistical...
Via Greenparty.ie Well as I said this morning the Green Party have announced their policy for Transport in Cork Green Party Leader Trevor Sargent TD said “Transport 21 has left Cork pretty well out of the picture with regards to future high budget transport development programmes. Much of what is proposed for Cork under Transport 21 was either already underway or has been postponed indefinitely. Other projects such as the North Ring Route around the city and the badly...
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