https://twitter.com/CllrAaron/status/532947136263225344 This is an actual fucking headline. The East Cork Journal is owned by a family of engineers, so I guess it’s understandable that they would want Fianna Fáil back in power to let the good times roll. A few months back they had a story about unemployment numbers dropping in east Cork, so naturally […]
Tag: celtic tiger
I think as an island country cut off from the rest of Europe, it’s a good thing that we have a certain amount of immigration. Mobility of races is a good thing. You can even see the better-looking and taller children now as a result of the Celtic Tiger years. I think it’s a good […]
Chas arriving for a Cáirde Fáil dinner back in the day, and a programme for the event from 1987 via the always fantastic Irish Election Lit blog. In the top photo you will notice The Kaiser at a table on the right. Up Cork. Sort of. Also, in the menu I love that there is a […]
Oh yeah, absolutely yes. I think we have to keep looking at our party strategy and we have to re-affirm are we the party that are a republican party that stands for republican ideals – in its widest sense – or are we an upper-middle class party? I think we have some hard choices to […]
Mark Kelly is the Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Consortium Leader of the JUSTICIA European Rights Network and lovechild of Jimmy Fallon and Aengus Ó Snódaigh. #fact
You have to run your business the way you see it. The Irish pub is the number one attraction for overseas tourists and tourists want to meet Irish people with great personalities and share a laugh with them and that is what they get when they come to our pubs. Publican Charlie Chawke defending his […]
I’m very disappointed. It is live art. Limerick’s Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon, Fianna Fáil, reacting to the decision by Duffy’s Circus to leave Limerick off its itinerary. Duffy’s – it’s our Cirque du Soleil. For the first time in living memory, Duffy’s will not make its annual September visit to Castletroy, with a spokesman stating this was “due to […]
Isn’t it a sad reflection on our political system that I was able to name examples of positive Irish success stories from the last 20 years in the arts, business and sport but that I don’t feel I could name you a positive role model from Dáil Éireann in that period. Indeed, if I was […]
It’s just overbearing. I have asthma and it’s affecting me. I’m just saying please refrain from it. Cork County Councillor Deirdre Forde (FG), who found the scents of some fellow councilors overbearing. Observers in County Hall witnessed some councillors mouth “what the f…” as Ms Forde proclaimed, during a council meeting, she was not at all […]
Catching a Celtic Tiger by the tail
Jim Clohessy was out with some Norwegian anglers last week fishing from boats in the Bellavista fleet. Amongst this intrepid crew was Hans Olav Hagerup, an angling guide himself. Hans explained to Jim how his anglers fish catch and release for big halibut and as these fish are too big to get in the boat for […]
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