An Explanation of The Labour Party Leadership’s “Delusional Strategy”
This week leading Labour Party politicians – notably the Dublin Deputies Joan Burton and Róisín Shortall set the general election airwaves alight with scorching attacks on left-wing rivals, at the same time facilitating the parliamentary passage of a reactionary Finance Bill through a dying Dáil. Why?
This prompted me to “wonder if Labour headquarters “focus groups” have picked up deep unease among Labour supporters about the right-wing policies of Fine Gael, and the shoddy manoeuvres designed to help the Budget Finance Bill through a dying Dáil? Did some dark princes from the Gilmore kitchen cabinet tell Shortall and Burton to be offensive towards left-wing rivals?”
Councillor Joan Collins Confronts ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on his last Leinster House Day
Joan Collins, United Left Alliance / People Before Profit Candidate (Dublin South-Central) hit the media headlines today, interrupting an RTÉ interview with former Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil Leader Bertie Ahern about his last days in Leinster House, headquarters of Dáil Éireann, the Irish Parliament :
“I was incensed by Bertie’s smug face”: Councillor tackles Ahern on his last day
Village Magazine meets Joe Higgins MEP over tea and a brownie
Village magazine interview with Dublin MEP Joe Higgins is here :
http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2011/01/interview-with-joe-higgins-mep/
Kill the Finance Bill – Burn the Bondholders!
See discussion here :
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/so-what-happens-next/
Line of Action :
Kill the Finance Bill
Dissolve the Dáil and announce a new General Election date before March 11
The Green Party/Fianna Fáil policy – apparently supported by Fine Gael – of passing the Finance bill this week should be rejected out of hand.
Call the bluff of the right-wing – do not tolerate hypocrites pretending to oppose the government, but in fact hoping the austerity package is passed – and after a General Election Fine Gael and their Labour coalition colleagues will say they are in “a straitjacket”, their “hands are tied”, and so on.
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Legislate for abortion rights for Irish Women now – A call for Action
FEMINIST OPEN FORUM
After the ABC case . . .
Legislate for abortion rights for Irish Women now
A call for Action
Thursday 27th January, 7.30pm in the Central Hotel
The recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of ABC v Ireland is an important victory for Irish women in their fight to secure their right to access abortion in their own country. In particular the ECHR unanimous criticism of the Irish government’s failure to provide legislation in line with the X case Judgement, highlights decades of political cowardice and active negligence by the state.
Brian Martin, Éamonn Cowen, Mícheál Kenny, Enda Gilmore – Who Cares?
Brian Martin, Éamonn Cowen, Mícheál Kenny, Enda Gilmore – Who Cares?
If the new government is a Fine Gael-Labour Coalition after the imminent 2011 General Election, Kenny-Gilmore will quickly be just as unpopular as Cowen-Gormley today –
since such a government will pursue the same policies as the outgoing discredited Greena Fáil coalition.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mícheál Martin is voting no confidence in his leader the Taoiseach Brian Cowen next Tuesday –
enjoy this video instead of going through the entrails :
Enda Kenny and Eoghan Murphy Caption Competition
Maman Poulet invites contributors
Lunch Discussion with Susan George: ‘Global Crises Coming Home’ – Tues 18th Jan 1pm, Central Hotel, Dublin
Lunch Discussion with Susan George: ‘Global Crises Coming Home’ – Tues 18th Jan 1pm, Central Hotel, Dublin
More Information on the event Here :
More About Susan here :
Tomás Ó Flatharta 