Staying up late on Facebook (admit it you do it to), I came across a conversation between two of my friends (Lucy and Fran in UCC YFG), who have obviously being concentrating on the upcoming Treaty Referendum on May 31st as much as their exam in the morning! They produced some great Memes from a conversation about canvassing at a mart and putting rug on a calf (I’m now informed they are called calf jackets – thanks Tom!) with a slogan...
Young Fine Gael today launched its Yes campaign for the Referendum on May 31st. The campaign is titled “Secure our Future, Vote YES”. The official launch will take place this evening in UCD. The campaign is structured around 3 messgaes: Ireland Needs Stability & Growth We need an Ireland that Competes Ireland needs Real Certainty There is a Website (with a blog), Facebook page, a Pinterest page (a first that I know for a referendum campaign in Ireland) and...
On Saturday 28 April a Fine Gael Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender group will be launched in Dublin in the Ely Gastro Pub. The event will be addressed by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD. In it it’s launch event on Facebook it explains why it is being set up, Fine Gael is an inclusive party and has a commitment to a just society and a fairer Ireland. Now we are taking the next step. Fine...
What is the Minister for Social Protection, Labour’s Joan Burton, up to? First she complains loudly about Fine Gael Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan meeting Michael Lowry after the Moriarty report and a photo of taken at the NYSE involving an Taoiseach Enda Kenny and business man Denis O’Brien. It now turns out that Joan Burton met with Denis O’Brien at that same event. Hypocrisy much? This emerged last night at the Labour Party Conference which is currently underway...
I’m finally back in Cork after last weekend’s Fine Gael Ard Fheis in the Convention Centre in Dublin. It was an interesting Ard Fheis with plenty to talk about and to plan for. The highlight of course was of course Enda Kenny’s speech on Saturday night. His speech for me summed up the change that we have seen in Enda Kenny since the attempted heave in 2010. It was measured and it contained positives and negatives. I for one...
As part if the 76th Fine Gael Ard Fheis, Young Fine Gael will be hosting a session on Saturday afternoon on the topic of Human Rights. The session will discuss Human Rights at home and abroad. The Session will include discussion on how human rights should become central to our society and political system, the media treatment of human rights, children’s rights and the Children’s Referendum, and advocacy for people with disability. Speaking about the Session, Young Fine Gael...
There is an interesting poll in tomorrows Sunday Business Post by Red C on both Party support and the fiscal treaty referendum. It is worth nothing that the poll was taken before the announcement on a deal on the Promissory Note and the Mahon Tribunal Report . The top-line figures for party support are as follows: Fine Gael 34% (+4) Labour 15% (-1) Fianna Fail 16% (-1) Sinn Fein 18% (nc) Ind/others 17% (-2) Fine Gael manage get to get a...
After the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis, Fine Gael is now the only political party in Ireland that is opposed to the introduction of Gay Marriage in Ireland. It was interesting to read that Fianna Fail passed motions in favour of both Gay Marriage and Gay Adoption following pressure from Ógra Fianna Fail and others who have been pushing for it for a number of years. With the Fine Gael Ard Fheis approaching, William Quill blogs that it is the...
Another of the motions released ahead of the Young Fine Gael National Conference next weekend is one of the issues that has been left unlooked at following the Civil Partnership Act. Gay Adoption. The motion from DCU reads as follows YFG call on the government to bring forward legislation allowing gay couples to adopt Currently a poll on thejournal.ie has support for gay adoption on 72%. Young Fine Gael passed a motion on support for Gay Marriage with a massive majority at...
More of the motions from the Young Fine Gael next weekend have been released and Wexford YFG have one calling on the Government to implement one of Fine Gael’s pre-election policies on the Irish Language. The motion reads YFG calls on FG to live up to its election promise and removes Irish as a compulsory subject in the Leaving Certificate The relevant part of the Fine Gael manifesto reads as follows Fine Gael is committed to overhauling the way in...
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