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Skin Flicks (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The Irish parliament needs a speaker, after the last one was caught swanning around the planet like Marie-Antoinette at the taxpayers' expense. This is a problem for Fianna Fail, because while the ideal would be for a member of an opposition party to take the chair (thus boosting the government's slender majority), it's unlikely that anyone from Labour or Sinn Fein can be bought off, and Fine Gael...
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Speedie's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
(Click on picture for larger version) It is not surprising that John O'Donoghue and his government defenders can use in his defense that he abided by parliamentary rules thereby breaking no laws in the huge expenses that he accumulated over the last few years that was paid for by the ordinary tax-payers of Ireland. But hasn't the ruling establishment since time immemorial written the laws to protect...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
One interesting news item is that the Irish Green Party is due to have its conference this weekend, and one possible outcome is that they decide to leave the coalition with Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats. At the moment the Dail Eireann is a hung Parliament- with the Fianna Fail Teachta Dala for Sligo-North Leitrim, Jimmy Devins and Eamon Scanlon, resigning the Fianna Fail whip a few weeks...
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The most mendacious and shameful of any of the Cinn Comhairlí to supposedly serve the Irish state is about to pass into history celebrated by Brian Cowen as someone who served Ireland well. Today's Irish Independent reveals that whilst celebrating Robbie Burns night in Scotland last January, John O'Donoghue claimed 1 sterling pound in expenses for a donation he had made through the goodness...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Alan Shatter has just told RTE’s Late Debate that the Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue has offered Fine Gael and Labour whips office to go next week… He is now following Sinn Fein’s call for JOD to resign… The detail of the expenses story is the killer… apparently… Detail brought to the wider world by Gavin and latterly Mark Coughlan and their good work...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
EVOCATIVE PICTURES from Ireland’s turbulent political history have been compiled in an exhibition launched by Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue at Leinster House last night to mark the 90th anniversary of the First Dáil.
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