Image via Wikipedia A Cork South Central Branch of Young Fine Gael is being launched on Friday 15th of January is Soho Bar on Grand Parade at 7:30pm. This is one of the new branches being set up by the Munster Regional Council of Young Fine Gael. YFG is the largest of the youth political parties in country and its expansion into the city should mark another stage in its growth. The meeting will be attended by local and...
I have done searching about the Cork Democratic Party and Suzy of mamanpoulet.com suggested that I contact the Standards in Public Office to see if they are registered for the prupose of the campaign. I got a reply from them today. I wish to confirm that Cork Democratic Party is not registered for the purposes of the Lisbon Referendum Campaign. That means of course they cannot accept donations above the value of €126.97 in an entire year. a “third...
Image via Wikipedia A few parties are using the Lisbon II Referendum Campaign to launch themselves. One of these is the Cork Democratic Party. Its not very often you come across a political party in Ireland based around a place, so this is an interesting development in itself. It will be quite interesting to find out what they stand for, because all I know at the moment is that they are opposed to the Lisbon Treaty. I am kind...
Image by infomatique via Flickr Roberts post on IrishElection on Yes Groups for the Lisbon Treaty Referendum has given me some food for thought. Is there too many? The groups that I know of are: Lawyers for Europe Women For Europe We Belong Ireland For Europe Generation Yes And thats not counting the Political Parties in favour of the Treaty, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour and the Green Party! That is nearly 9 groups. There are probably more! On...
Image via Wikipedia Well I haven’t blogged since Monday and I apologise! But I may make up for it today! So I have found a few things relating to the EU elections. First up is VoteMatch. Now I think its done by the same crowd who had the tool for the London Elections last year. This is based on the European Political Parties rather then the National Parties. You get asked to agree, disagree, neither with 30 statements and...
This is inspired by yet another post on ConHome where they get things wrong. Not sure if this would qualify as one off Joe‘s Five Things?! would it Joe? Number 1: They are not members of the EPP. Number 2: They are members of the ED – European Democrats, who are seperate to the the EPP. Number 3: Because of this distinction they do not take the EPP whip. Number 4: They sit as part of the EPP-ED Group...
Image via Wikipedia The Labour Party published its Electoral (Gender Parity) Bill today (See RTÉ for details) which will cut state funding to party who dont put forward a certain percentage of female candidates. From what I see from my expeirence in political parties, that when women put themselevs forward for candidature they invariable get selected, not because women vote for them but because men vote for them! I attended conventions for three electoral areas for the upcoming local...
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