Image via Wikipedia Last night I attended Evensong in St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork for a special IDAHO service. It was a beatiful service with an excellent choir. The Dean The Very Revd Nigel Dunne made everyone welcome and during the service we were all invited up to place a stone at the foot of the cross. That to me was very touching. During the prayers a list of those killed because of their sexuality was read out...
So much for not blogging politics, but this cant be left go. I witnessed an “interaction” on twitter between the Green Party and Peter of Donegan Landscaping. It was started with Peter pointing out that @Deirdredeburca only uses twitter for announcements. To which the Greenparty responded by saying Now this is a big mistake as many twitter users do not like accounts that are just announcements. They like people to reply and interact as pointed outThen they said the...
YFG are holding a session on Saturday at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis enititled “Ireland Needs Change”. The aim of the discussion is to allow spokespersons in the party let the young members know what they are doing. The session will be addressed by: Barry Walsh, President Young Fine Gael Richard Bruton TD, Deputy Leader and Fine Gael Spokesperson on Finance (Chair) Lucinda Creighton TD, Fine Gael Spokesperson on European Affairs Brian Hayes TD, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Education...
Below is my 7th Thinkaboutit.eu post. I have posted it in full so dont forget to rate it on the competition website! A problem for me during the last European Elections in 2004 was finding out about candidates running for election. Although I couldn’t vote and was sitting my Leaving Certificate I was interested in who was running and finding out more about the candidates in my constituency. In my constituency, Ireland South, there were ten candidates running for...
I hope you are all enjoying your St. Patricks Day. I for one have spent most of the actual day in bed. I had to get up early this morning and bring the Macoaimh (Cub Scouts) to mass. So I went back to bed afterwards. So whats the point of this post? I was going to do a post like this but then decided, why should I be posting about that on what is our National Day as well...
Image via Wikipedia The Labour Party published its Electoral (Gender Parity) Bill today (See RTÉ for details) which will cut state funding to party who dont put forward a certain percentage of female candidates. From what I see from my expeirence in political parties, that when women put themselevs forward for candidature they invariable get selected, not because women vote for them but because men vote for them! I attended conventions for three electoral areas for the upcoming local...
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