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Continuing to roll out the barrell
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
THE trouble about looking to legislation to tackle the shocking misuse of alcohol in this country is that too many of our elected representatives are seen to be part of the problem instead of being committed to the solution.
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The cynosure of all those political eyes
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I HAVE a feeling Brian Cowen is going to be a lucky and plucky Taoiseach, replacing the man who made a career out of blaming others for his lapses of responsibility and who rarely made a tough decision when self-serving compromise would serve instead.
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Time to batten down forgotten hatches
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BERTIE is at the exit, Biffo waits in the wings and the Flynnstones take a bow as politics provide a means of escapism for a despairing Irish electorate forced to face economic realities and the deja vu of Fianna Fáil preservation policies and personalities.
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Bertie goes between craft and credulity
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
EDMUND Burke, the Irish-born Whig politician who died in 1797, wrote that those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, can never willingly abandon it.
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Perjury and politics in the modern age
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
IN A period of post-operative recuperation I had time to consider the Vatican expansion of the original Seven Deadly Sins into a broader context of social sins for the modern age.
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Irish politics shamed by the silent lambs
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
THE MILLS of the Mahon Tribunal grind slow and exceedingly small but last week they justified the ten years of public expense and dogged pursuit of corruption in political life by showing how far Bertie Ahern was prepared to go in implementing the lessons of his unlamented mentor, the late Charlie Haughey.
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Buttons the banks should press
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
THE ARRIVAL of a banking circular setting out a range of changes to existing fees and charges that my bank considers would allow me to get the best possible value from my personal Credit Card once again demonstrates how consumers can be imposed upon by monetary edict which seeks to mask greed under the guise of service.
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An introduction to the pelvic tilt
Thursday, March 13, 2008
It wasn’t the timing of my choice to enter hospital given the prevalance of the MRSI bug, Health Service Executive cutbacks and the crypto-sporidium scare which did wonders for the sales of bottled water but when a neurologist, an urologist, a surgeon and a physiotherapist nod their heads in agreement over print-outs of the painful effects of a trapped nerve on my mobiity, who am I to question the diagnoses resulting in a VHI-funded tour of Galway’s regional health facilities?
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The lark-in the unclear air again!
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
THE sooner Bertie Ahern quits the Irish scene the better for the health of the body politic and public respect for the institutions of state.
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Hard headed Hanna comes under fire
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
THE dogmatic approach of ‘Mother Knows Best’ by Education Minister Mary Hanafin to various issues of public concern does Fianna Fáil no benefit and never more so than on the subject of educating children with autism where the Department of Education’s eclectic approach is raising parental and professional hackles on the same scale as HSE policies on cancer care.
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Shameful cabal of organised hypocrisy
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
IT is just a month ago since Minister Noel Dempsey did a solo run by stating that the influence of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s personality in attracting votes to Fianna Fáil was diminishing with every election, adding that the Taoiseach would step down in his own time.
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Cupla focal in our Aer Lingus Bertie
Thursday, February 14, 2008
WELL, if you thought the national airline Aer Lingus was denying its responsibilities when it switched the London link from Shannon to Belfast as part of a politically ingratiating deal with Unionism, what are you to make of the company’s latest ruling banning staff from addressing passengers in Irish on flights from Belfast?
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Violent crime just a matter for concern
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
LAST year was the bloodiest on record since we began our national attempt to butcher our way into the top lists of the EU crime league - with murder and manslaughter figures showing at a new high of 84 including six manslaughter victims while stabbings doubled up to 36.
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Kindly light amid the encircling Ireland’s gloom
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
What with the dreary weather, the stock exchange meltdowns, the growing panic in Fianna Fáil at the long suicide notes being issued by Bertie Ahern as substitutes for leadership directions in the face of a major economic crisis, the rising cost of living, and the depressing state of our health services it was hard to find something to cheer about in our confused little state last week.
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Civic Reception for Quiet Man
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
AS a scourge of backsliding politicians, at either local or national level, he was never likely to be known as Denis The Menace, but Denis Daly made his journalistic reputation for a quiet and nonjudgemental presentation of case facts over the 47 years he covered local affairs for the Western People.
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