Archive for : August, 2010
Cut Backs to St Mary’s Hospital, Dublin 7
31st August, 2010
The Evening Herald feature my raising with the cut backs to St Mary’s Hospital. If you combine this with the cut backs to the......
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Markets cannot be investors when we need them and vigilantes when we don’t.
30th August, 2010
In the midst of this economic depression we are painfully short of heroes. Maybe because of this there is no shortage of villains. If......
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Extremes
26th August, 2010
Yesterday I dealt with a case of a constituent who in trying to deal with a pension matter was passed to 3 different departments......
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Working in my office
24th August, 2010
Sitting in the office in Phibsborough. Heard something shouting ‘You can’t trust them, you just can’t trust them’. Suspected that shouter of same would......
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Are the 1980s back all over again
23rd August, 2010
This thought went through my mind over the weekend. The CAO ‘points race’ starts again. Violence in the North. Huge levels of unemployment and......
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Liam
20th August, 2010
Just outside Castlebar. Liam, you will be dearly missed. Rest in Peace – Liam Coady...
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Dart Undergound An Bord Pleanala Submission
19th August, 2010
This is the submission that was made by Councillor Ray McAdam and I to An Bord Pleanala regarding this huge project and the impact......
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Today matters
17th August, 2010
Over the last week the spread on Irish Credit Default Swaps increased considerably. This put Ireland as the second highest risk in the Euro......
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What Ireland did Right
16th August, 2010
Yes, in these gloomy and difficult times it is easy to forget that for a while some good decisions were made. Slugger O’Toole has......
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