New City Plans Flawed, Bad Deal for Navan Road, Cabra and Glasnevin

1st February, 2009

Maximising the City’s Potential, the variation to the City Development Plan should be rejected. Councillor Mary O’Shea and I discussed this plan yesterday. It proposes increasing......

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Barack and me

31st January, 2009

Twitter really is powerful. Just received an e-mail from it to say that Barack Obama is ‘following’ me. Thought he had better things to do….global credit......

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Iceland, Denmark and the Euro

31st January, 2009

Ireland’s Future in Europe There has recently been a lot of articles about Denmark and Iceland deepening their European integration in response to economic difficulties. Denmark......

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Interesting Facts About Dublin Central

30th January, 2009

The Oireachtas Library and Research Service have just published an analysis of every constituency in the country. It is a brilliant piece of work......

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The Killers vs North Strand

30th January, 2009

Typical. Amidst the frantic and wonderful life of a politician you need things that keep you going. Music is one of the things that does......

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I am Twittering!

30th January, 2009

If I lose every election in the future party HQ may well look back and say that if I had spent less time wasting time......

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A little victory

29th January, 2009

Just received my Seanad plan for the week. The Harbours Bill is on next Thursday. No end point has been set for it. Will I......

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Killing me softly…part 2

28th January, 2009

Just finished in Seanad Chamber on Harbours Bill. Started at 12.20 and finished at 4. Senator O’Donovan took up most of this time. His conclusion in......

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Off to Davos

28th January, 2009

Oh dear. My contribution on the order of business today caused a bit of a stir. I posed a number of questions about the discussions......

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Killing me slowly – the Harbours Amendment Bill 2008

28th January, 2009

I normally associate ‘filibustering’ with giants of the American Senate such as Senators Byrd and Kennedy. This is where a Senator speaks at great length to......

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