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Drivers are being warned that a festive tipple could see them end up behind bars this Christmas as a new hard-hitting £1.6 million THINK! campaign is launched today by Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick. The Government and Police have once again joined forces to urge anyone hitting the party scene to leave their car keys at home and not risk the devastation that drink driving causes. This year the...
A short video clip from yesterday’s Stormont Live where Jim Fitzpatrick and Mark Devenport discuss “our very own lycanthropes” the Northern IrelandFirst and deputy First Ministers’ trip to the US.. where they do, indeed, appear to be “drawing a discrete veil over that” recent little local difficulty.. [ Open for business, again? - Ed] From the BBC report Speaking to dinner guests from some of the...
From today’s Politics Show, Jim Fitzpatrick introduces Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison’s regular short report on the political fortunes of Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Fianna Fáil, noting the “triumvirate of party aristocrats” in whose hands power now lies in Ireland .
As this blog attests, we have periodically requested various bits of information from the Department for Transport, on the subject of the Gaul RFI. Periodically, though not without additional prompting, one of Mr Jim Fitzpatrick's officials, like a cuckoo out of the clock, would come out to deliver his two-note message - a message sterilised beforehand by the various DfT attorneys - and then quickly...
Read Jim Fitzpatrick riffing on the genius of Donald Rumsfeld, when applied to the impending de-regulation by default of the Northern Ireland post-primary transfer process, before watching his report from today’s Politics Show - there are known unknowns, indeed. The Education Minister, Sinn Féin’s Caitriona Ruane, wasn’t available for interview this morning, not that her previous appearances have proved...
Alfie was on the case when it came to Jim Fitzpatrick, England's Transport Minister, telling lies - making out that his remit covered Scotland and Wales too... And a direct quote from Jim within the press release clinches it - "Britain has one of the best road safety records in the world and the number of people killed or hurt has fallen dramatically in the last decade. But too many people are still...
A crackdown on the menace of reckless driving was announced by Britain’s Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick today as he unveiled a range of new proposals to tackle drink and drug drivers and other dangers on Britain’s roads. A major new road safety consultation sets out plans to help the police better enforce against drug [...]
A crackdown on the menace of reckless driving has been announced as Labour’s Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick unveiled proposals to tackle drink and drug drivers and other dangers on Britain’s roads. A major consultation on road safety sets out Labour's plans to crack down on drug and drink driving and how changes in the law can play a role in combating this menace. It also examines the need for...
Yesterday it was the Home Secretary all over the airways telling anyone prepared to listen about proposals for legislation in regard to people forced in to prostitution. Today it is Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick telling us about proposals that could mean people who had two convictions for speeding possibly being automatically banned from driving. Why? They are the bloody government. Get on and...
“Rejoice, rejoice” were Jim Fitzpatrick’s opening comments on Stormont Live today, with perhaps just a soupcon of sarcasm.. Then to Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Shaun Woodward, MP, possibly overselling today’s announcement by comparing it with the Belfast and St Andrews Agreements - pointing out that they “did not agree a date or a process for the transfer of policing and justice”. By contrast,...
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Labour's Aviation Minister, responding to Theresa Villiers' outright rejection of Boris Johnson's Thames Estuary airport plan, said: "Tory transport policy is now totally incoherent. The Tories can't get their act together when it comes to airports and keep making headlines on the hoof that unravel under scrutiny. "They opposed Heathrow expansion during the London election campaign....
Not, apparently, if you’re the Northern Ireland Education Minister, Sinn Féin’s Caitriona Ruane. Given the rare opportunity of the Education Minister actually in the studio, Jim Fitzpatrick asks, a number of times, whether the “awful prospect” of de-regulation by default , that the Minister has been threatening to press ahead with , will be a worse scenario than retaining academic selection.. [Nevermind...
