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The poll, commissioned by Paddy Power, has found Fine Gael to be the most popular party among the electorate. It received the votes of 35pc of the poll’s participants. Labour is trailing 14 points behind Fine Gael with 21pc of the vote.
Support for Fianna Fáil has fallen to the same level shown to Sinn Fein with both parties recording 14pc of the vote in the survey.
The Green Party are the least popular of the major parties, with just 4pc.
Discussion on politics.ie.
It’s Una Mullally. From the interweb! She still rawks. And it’s an ironic horn sign not meant literally.
But try telling that to Indie funsters Shane Kinsella and Mark Austin from The Minutes. Too hipstery for the horn? They’ll learn
Una was marking the return of her alternative music show on TG4 called Ceol Ar An Imeall (Wednesday, January 12 @ 11.15pm – repeated Fridays at 6.25pm).
Ceol Ar An Immeal means music from the edge. So expect a man in a hat making his guitar sound like a helicopter.
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Taken literally an hour ago.
Taken literally over 40 years ago.
Back at 9am.
(comment lines are open through the night)
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1997: Loyal. Unassuming, mustachioed, Tony, first elected in 1992, is returned to the Dail and immediately recognised as someone of small intellect. Many mistake him for a supermarket manager. Tony brushes all this aside with his customary sullenness and moody stares.
2007: Out goes the face furniture and the ‘fun’ ties. In comes a sterner Tony. Still loyal and unassuming but now grimly determined to exact revenge on everyone who ever laughed at him.
2011: Revenge is a dish best served cold. In this case, Willie O’Dea’s leftovers. Tony gets a ministerial pension and, after serving less than a year as Minister of Defence, announces his retirement. The glasses got cooler. Tony remains aggressively unmemorable. We will never see his like, etc.
Tony Killeen Will Not Contest Election (Irish Times)
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“If old age pensions can’t be cut, the axe must fall on fringe benefits. €966m is being spent on free schemes — without a means test. Pensioners have been exempt from cuts to date. This is despite a significant reduction in the cost of living. Current pensioners receive defined benefit private pensions that will be unattainable to younger generations.” (Irish Examiner, October 14, 2010)
But what happens if your mother loses her home because you mortgaged it to save your business?
Cough.
Yates’ Battle To Save Home (Irish Independent)
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Dara Calleary: “The next leader should come from my generation.”
Mary: “The next leader should come from my family.”
Next FF Leader Should Be From New Generation (Irish Times)
Discussion here.
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Rupert Murdoch’s painful internet journey, compiled by Mediaweek, on the eve of the launch of his new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily.
“Few large media companies have had as many false starts on the Internet as the News Corporation”
Noted the New York Times.
In 1997.