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Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | yesterday
The not-so-good and the not-so-great, number 20: Dorothy Phillips Let Malcolm sidle up on this one. The Irish Times has a tradition of fine and ironic writing. So Anne Marie Hourihane is under pressure to meet the norm in her TV review column for the Weekend Review. Beside a picture of Brendan Gleeson depicting Winston Churchill in Into the Storm , we get a paragraph: He was his country's saviour...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE MORE information the people had about the economic crisis, the sooner they would get rid of Fianna Fáil “and hopefully elect our first Labour taoiseach”, Joan Burton said last night.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
MIRIAM LORD'S WEEK:EAT YOUR heart out Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, here comesThe Wex-Factor. The showbiz event of the year happens tonight when Fianna Fáil deputy Seán Connick returns to the stage after a 30-year absence.
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The worst threat for five years? Oh, well, Gerry and Martin know who and where the dissidents are. Hey, they are even on Newsnight these days. When, in league with Rome as ever in Ireland (Ireland's love for Rome has always been as unrequited as Rome's love for England), London gave de Valera his own breakaway party and used it to supplant the party from which it had split, then the hanging of the...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
MINISTER FOR Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin last night outlined savings that could be achieved by reducing social welfare payments at a meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.
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Blog Posts about Irish TDs - (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Sligo Fianna Fail TD, Jimmy Devins has said that he is in discussions with the Taoiseach to try and change the decision to move breast cancer services from.... Continue reading »
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SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Great news. 91% of members at a special meeting in Donegal have voted to split from the Irish ‘Green’ Party. Thank god, real greens are active in Ireland and working for change. Greens across the world will be wishing them luck. Fianna Fail has many a politician who has taken a back hander for some polluting project [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
PRESIDENT'S LOG:QUESTION: WHAT do I have in common with Barack Obama, Madonna, Sarah Brown (Gordon Brown’s wife), the entire Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour Parties, Stephen Fry, and 14 people who claim to be the pope? Answer: we’re all on Twitter. Maybe you’re reading this and you still don’t know what Twitter really is; and by now, because just everyone is talking...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The question of redress for women who had been in Magdalen laundries is to be discussed at the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party today.
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Have a leaflet for the Fianna Fail National Collection in 1985. Part of the message from Mr Haughey on the front is “Please contribute generously...
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Stephen Spillane (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Things aren’t looking so good for the Fianna Fail Party in their new Grouping in the European Parliament. At the last plenary session they caused hassle by abstaining on a vote on a resolution by the ALDE, Green and Socialist groups on media freedoms, this caused the vote to be lost. This has causd huge [...]
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I wonder if all of this was obtained legally: ---Quote--- FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's local organisation has €115,000 in the bank, it has...
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The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Published: Tuesday 29 September 2009 Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende is conducting a "very subtle" lobbying campaign in Brussels to be considered a candidate for the job of EU Council president, according to sources, who forecast that should the Lisbon Treaty enter into force, he will be strongly backed by Angela Merkel. ( EurActive.com ) Why not Blair? Mr Blair’s problem...
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Irish Election (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
So it’s the bank holiday weekend and am contemplating the jump/gain/reversed decline of Fianna Fáil in the latest RedC poll (+1 ) with one eye on the news feed whilst the other lingers on the TV where the X factor is witnessing once more the critics confounded by the seemingly inorexable rise of the ‘terrible [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
NEW MEASURES to protect families that are finding it difficult to pay their mortgages will be introduced by the Government, Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey said yesterday.
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