Category Archives: Politics

from the Dail to the White House and back via Downing Street and elsewhere.

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Kerry local election candidate Danny Healy-Rae makes a final appeal for your vote in a 30 second clip lasting 44 seconds.

Right so.

Meanwhile,

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Anon writes:

“The leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah  The look, the tone, the dialect… Have the Sheikh and Danny Healy-Rae ever been seen in the same room together?

Thanks Donie

And the obligatory mashup…

(Thanks What Goes Up)

Previously: Anything Good In The Kerryman?

It’s Pro Life Jim Not That We’ll Vote For It

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The other Jimmy Carr.

Local election candidate, Jimmy Carr, claims the SDLP accused him of being a drug dealer.

Earlier this week The Derry Journal exclusively revealed that a Derry City Council (DCC) issued iPad containing “questionable” messages linked to Mr Carr had been handed over to the PSNI.

It is alleged that the messages were about illegal drugs.

However, The Derry Journal can now reveal that the PSNI have received a second iPad and are considering examining both devices to determine if any crime has been committed.

Councillor Carr says he will fight the election as an Independent.

He’s running in the Awk ward….

PSNI receive second iPad as Jimmy Carr claims SDLP accused him of being a drug dealer (Andrew Quinn, Derry Journal)

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The Guardian reports that at a recent cocktail party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right Front National suggested:

..the deadly virus Ebola could solve the global “population explosion” and by extension Europe’s “immigration problem”

Adding

religion added an “aggravating factor” to this problem because many immigrants were Muslim and Islam had a “conquering vocation … and even more conquering when it feels strong and they feel numerous

Right wing so.

The Guardian

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Read his lips:

No Expenses

NoelRock.ie

H/t Pete

Update:

 

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The Life Institute has produced a list of candidates [after consulting only Direct Democracy, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and Independents] for the local elections who they claim support the following statement:

Do you support the repeal of the legislation which permits abortion on suicide grounds, and support making Ireland a place where unborn children are legally protected and mothers get all necessary life-saving treatment in pregnancy?

Some of the candidates who feature on the list include Paul Anthony Ward (Fianna Fáil), Seán Haughey (Fianna Fáil), and Danny Healy Rae (Independent).

Updated:

Of the 157 (now 163) candidates listed, 144 (now 148) are male and 13 (now 15) female.

This means approximately 92% (now 91%) are men.

Make of that what you will.

Download the list here (last updated 11:00 May 23).

The Life Institute’s guide to the European election is here.

Previously: Ballyhea Says No

Thanks Stephanie