McDowell urges judges to be stricter in applying bail law
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/?jp=CWIDSNOJEYID
If only he was in a position like say being the minister with responsiblity for the judicary.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Three classics just from today to get us going
Minister Noel Ahern is up in arms about rising house prices which he now suspects might have involved speculators. You don't say? Where could he be getting this idea from? He wouldn't be in a job that involves housing would he?
Senator Tom Morrissey is looking for action, action, I says ya! on bus reform. Bus reform isn't a bad idea per se, but saying we should wait in rain while Tom and friends stamp their feet and have it out with Martin Cullen is a bit much don't you think?
Martin Brady TD for Dublin North East is looking for a crackdown on drivers using their mobiles. A crackdown, and only a day before the use of them becomes an offense. What was the cause of his silence on the issue over the last 9 years?
Senator Tom Morrissey is looking for action, action, I says ya! on bus reform. Bus reform isn't a bad idea per se, but saying we should wait in rain while Tom and friends stamp their feet and have it out with Martin Cullen is a bit much don't you think?
Martin Brady TD for Dublin North East is looking for a crackdown on drivers using their mobiles. A crackdown, and only a day before the use of them becomes an offense. What was the cause of his silence on the issue over the last 9 years?
Friday, July 14, 2006
Why can't the government do something?
You've heard it a hundred times and if you're interested in politics in Ireland perhaps a few thousand down the years. And we've gotten used to it. It becomes part of the background noise of Irish political life. However, during the lifetime of the current government it has been turned into an artform.
So to honour it we're going to preserve all the examples we come across. Whenever some problem, difficulty or issue comes up, locally or national and a local councillor, party official or backbencher or hell's bells sometimes even a minister will say the government should do something, or that it must act and then...nothing, faic, nada.
We've had an so called backbenchers revolt over the savage sixteen cuts back in 2003.
So that brings me to this. I'm going to try and gather all such comments so we can shame those people who once having been elected think it is enough to moan but not actually do anything about the problems we all face.
You can get me at daniel.danielsullivan@gmail.com or whycantthegovernmentdosomething@yahoo.ie
Send me clips from papers, or links to the articles, or links to rte audio or video whether news or current affairs and I'll endeavour to post them all.
It's time we did something to remind them that they are the government whether we voted for them or not.
So to honour it we're going to preserve all the examples we come across. Whenever some problem, difficulty or issue comes up, locally or national and a local councillor, party official or backbencher or hell's bells sometimes even a minister will say the government should do something, or that it must act and then...nothing, faic, nada.
We've had an so called backbenchers revolt over the savage sixteen cuts back in 2003.
So that brings me to this. I'm going to try and gather all such comments so we can shame those people who once having been elected think it is enough to moan but not actually do anything about the problems we all face.
You can get me at daniel.danielsullivan@gmail.com or whycantthegovernmentdosomething@yahoo.ie
Send me clips from papers, or links to the articles, or links to rte audio or video whether news or current affairs and I'll endeavour to post them all.
It's time we did something to remind them that they are the government whether we voted for them or not.
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